I Apologize, Everyone!

I apologize for trying to bring race in to the “Avenged Sevenfold versus Led Zeppelin” and plagiarism argument. I still firmly believe that people who like Led Zeppelin who shouldn’t turn around and slam newer bands for copying others.

Constructive criticism is one thing, and it’s fine to criticize Avenged Sevenfold for instances where you believe they plagiarized - as long as you do the same with Led Zeppelin and/or other bands that you like.

However, my beef is with the underlying implication often belying such criticism as “therefore Avenged Sevenfold is a terrible band and nobody should just them”. It’s the unjust double standard of slamming bands that you don’t like whilst ignoring and/or overlooking the same behaviour in bands that you do like.

Even leaving race out of the equation, though - one can hardly argue against the fact that Led Zeppelin stole from artists who were relatively poor, whereas Avenged Sevenfold have been accused of stealing from bands who were already successful in their right. So that’s what my beef is.