History SpiritualSuccessor / Music

** Porcupine Tree were also labelled the spiritual successors of Music/PinkFloyd when they were still doing more psychadelic ProgressiveRock, though the band members have repeatedly contested this notion.

* IndustrialMetal/PunkRock group Lard haven't officially released anything since 2000's ''70's Rock Must Die'' EP. However, Lard can arguably be boiled down to a collaboration between [[{{Music/Ministry}} Al Jourgensen]] and [[Music/DeadKennedys Jello Biafra]], and Jello has made numerous guest appearances for Al's other projects since, whether it's providing a spoken word intro ("Ass Clown" by Ministry), or taking over on lead vocals ("Sabotage is Sex" by Ministry, "Dead End Streets" and "Viagra Culture" by Revolting Cocks, "I Don't Wanna" by Surgical Meth Machine). "Viagra Culture" arguably feels the most like a Lard song due to its [[EpicRocking nearly six minute length]] and industrial-punk-metal sound.

SpiritualSuccessor in {{Music}}.

* Many fans of Buckner & Garcia's ''Music/PacManFever'' consider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl2uM_KX_9g "Wreck-It Ralph"]] (which the band recorded for [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph the movie's]] soundtrack) to be this trope. In terms of theme and style, it's a perfect fit.

** Eminem has often been held up by commentators as the TurnOfTheMillennium version of Music/ElvisPresley -- both PrettyBoy [[LowerClassLout white-trash]] {{Teen Idol}}s who had complicated relationships with their mothers, whose music was surrounded by disgust and controversy for [[ShockRock graphic shock content]] seen as extreme [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny for the time]]. Both were technical experts within Black music genres, innovated by fusing their Black style with white musical styles, and both crossed their genre over to the white pop mainstream. Eminem himself has commented on this, even self-declaring as "rap's Elvis", and his Slim Shady alter-ego is seen as an ElvisImpersonator in several of his music videos. These parallels, unfortunately, continued throughout Eminem's career, with him ending up a recluse in his mansion, obese, riddled with physical illness, addicted to painkillers, and dying while using the toilet... well, not quite, as Eminem survived his overdose, got clean, got in shape, and made multiple more albums. Eminem even got a song on the soundtrack of ''Film/{{Elvis|2022}}'' called "The King And I" in which he alludes to the affinity between the two of them.

* Chilean band Criminal is often considered to be a spiritual successor to early Music/{{Sepultura}}. Singer/guitarist Anton Reisenegger was part of the same wave of underground 1980s extreme metal as them with the band Pentagram (not to be confused with the doom metal band of the same name), and he formed Criminal since his first band had trouble getting an album together despite recording several demos. When Sepultura moved away from their death/thrash roots with ''Chaos A.D.'' in 1993, Criminal's first album coincidentally came out the following year in 1994. While both bands (and by extension Music/{{Soulfly}} after Max Cavalera left Sepultura) continued to evolve their sound in similar ways, Criminal always stuck with death metal elements, while still incorporating groove and hardcore influences to create their signature sound. In layman's terms, Criminal is what Sepultura would've sounded like had they remained in death/thrash territory while simultaneously evolving their style similarly and turning their musicality up a notch.

* [=LeaF=]'s SurpriseCreepy song "[=MopeMope=]" is practically a music version of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'', featuring what appears to be cute flowery scenery at first and an accompanying jingle that [[SurpriseCreepy suddenly]] pulls a complete 180 and turns into a hellscape of [[EldritchAbomination otherworldly horrors]] and nasty music. Both works' creators had to slap on content warnings to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids make it extra clear that they're not suitable for kids]]. Its apperance in ''VideoGame/MuseDash'' even features the game scenery randomly "everting" between different kinds, like in early versions of ''Eversion'' World 8.

** Music/NewOrder is also the spiritual successor to Music/JoyDivision, the former being comprised of all the remaining members of said band except for Joy Division's lead singer, Ian Curtis, who commited suicide in 1980.

* Creator/JohannesBrahms' first symphony was described as "[[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]'s tenth" after the premiere. Such a comparison annoyed him, as he remarked "Any ass can see that".

** Music/RogerWaters' solo album ''Amused To Death'' has been described by some fans as on par with Music/PinkFloyd's classic albums. Executives at Roger's label apparently admitted as much to him, saying that it would have sold many more copies if it was a Pink Floyd album.

*** ''Music/TheWall'' and ''The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking'' were written as part of the same set of 1978 demos, and both would have been considered to be the successor to ''Music/{{Animals}}''. The Wall won. The Final Cut began as new tracks written in 1982 for Film/TheWall movie, along with rejected songs from the album's 1979 sessions, but only "When The Tigers Broke Free" was used. It was to be released as an album called ''Spare Bricks''. It was later completed with new tracks about and a new concept about the schoolteacher from Film/TheWall being angry about UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar and warmongering in general and called The Final Cut. TPACOHH was renewed as Roger Waters' first solo album. As a result, the albums have similar sounds and similar subject matter.

*** ''Amused to Death'' was actually written at first as, literally, a sequel to Waters' ''Radio K.A.O.S.'' album. Roger's objections to the first Iraq War (and its depiction by the news media as it unfurled) changed all of that.