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Originally Posted by Ambival
Well, I may be mistaken about Slayer copying Metallica, but Kerry King's words "[Show No Mercy] is "****in' Iron Maiden here and there" give me the impression that still some some copying was present, but is that really a bad thing? Sepultura "stole" Korn's sound on Roots with Korn's permission (guest apperances of Jonathan Davis and David Silveria), so Korn might have been flattered because of that. I truly think that Godsmack was heavily inspired by Alice in chains and all those similiarities are simply a homage.
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There's a very fine line between stealing and borrowing and I guess the way to decide what is what, is to think have the band blended what they've copied into their own sound or just made an obvious copy.
Also a lot of bands like Metallica and Slayer came from the same scene and would've bounced ideas of each other, as that's how movements and scenes grow and develop in music and as Janszoon said above it's reciprocal.