It Has Just Come to Our Attention That the Makers of 'Dark Souls' Ripped Off Radiohead in 2001

I just received a tweet, on Twitter, a tweet that read like this:

You might enjoy this — Alex Francois (@thebrained)February 11, 2016

So, being a naturally curious fellow, I checked out this alleged crime. Surely, surely, FromSoftware, now known best for Dark Souls and its related series, and that other game set in a gothic sort-of-London-or-something with a really nasty version of Gazza in it, would not have ripped off Britain's Very Own Radiohead? Britain's Much Loved Radiohead, a reliable quintet of possibly-quite-posh-boys who, in 1997, released an album called OK Computer that absolutely blew my 17-year-old mind. So blown was it that I bought tickets for their show in Cardiff when I lived in Southampton, which resulted in me spending the night in a bus shelter Because Trains. Surely.

But, sure(ly) enough, it appears that the piece of music called "Damp Tomb", from FromSoft's 2001 RPG King's Field IV – it came out in the UK in 2003, on the PS2 – is so close to Radiohead's May 1997 single "Paranoid Android" – track two of OK Computer – that it's not even funny. Unless it is. Is it? I don't even know what's real anymore. I'm going to have to play back Bloodborne's OST in full to make sure there are no melodies from Super Furry Animals' Radiator LP in there.

This might be old news to you. The game in question came out fucking ages ago, after all. But it's news to me, so here it is, published on the internet, on a page that you're still looking at. Have a listen and compare the two arrangements for yourself, since you're here.

That's not uncanny, FromSoft, that's theft.

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