Sad Wings Of Destiny - Judas Priest

Released in 1976 when the popularity of heavy metal was beginning to wane, Judas Priest’s second album injected new life, speed and energy into the genre, and along with its successors paved the way for what would ultimately be defined as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Still commonly regarded as one of the band’s finest releases, it was unarguably a vast improvement over the messy and long-forgotten debut ‘Rocka Rolla,’ abandoning its blues-tinged, hard rock sound – for the most part – in favour of a highly charged approach that was in equal shares melodic and aggressive, based on the shrieking vocal talents of Rob Halford and the dual guitar harmonies and ...  Read the complete review

Judas Priest — Sad Wings of Destiny Year — 1976 The line-up — ROB HALFORD - vocals K.K. DOWNING - lead guitar GLENN TIPTON - lead guitar (and piano) IAN HILL - bass guitar ALAN MOORE - drums Judas Priest’s debut album, ‘Rock Rolla’, completely failed to make any impact whatsoever upon its release in 1974, and the band resumed their small-scale gigging around the Midlands, no doubt having a good time of it but nonetheless making very little money. Priest did, however, manage to grab a slot at the Reading Festival in the summer of 1975, which brought them some press attention, and eventually ...  Read the complete review