Shiver VS At Vance
In the beginning of the year 2006, a Finnish band Shiver, was searching for a vocalist. Shiver sent one of their songs to each of those who applied, so they could make their own intrepretations of the lyrics and the vocal melody.
Rick Altzi was one of the candidates. He went through this procedure like everyone else, but was not chosen for the job. The song was called Shiver even before the search for a vocalist began.
Now, Rick is the vocalist of a German band At Vance and they released a new album this year. On that album you can find a song called "Shiver", which is surprisingly similar to Shiver's original song composed back in the year 2005. One must notice that Rick Altzi and the composer of At Vance, Olaf Lenk, only owns the rights to Rick's lyrics and vocal melody, not to the whole song composed by Shiver.
You can compare these two songs in this clip which includes parts of the Shiver-version with Rick Altzi on vocals made in the beginning of 2006 and the At Vance -- version released in 2007.
http://www.myspace.com/projectshiver