Sad Wings of Destiny
Studio album by Judas PriestWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Dean DelrayHOST
Anyway, some good news.
Dean DelrayHOST
Judas Priest, Sad Wings of Destiny Remastered was dropped, released, and holy shit, does this thing sound unreal.
Dean DelrayHOST
I put it on, I turned it up, I listened to it twice all the way through, and it is a scorcher.
Dean DelrayHOST
Oh, my God.
Dean DelrayHOST
Let me get this here.
Dean DelrayHOST
Judas Priest.
Dean DelrayHOST
You know what's crazy? When you look at Sad Wings of Destiny and you look at the songs on this, it is unbelievable because...
Dean DelrayHOST
Just the tracks.
LarryHOST
So it's not-- It, it's always a good listen.
LarryHOST
Uh, they did a recent one on, uh, Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest that I really enjoyed.
LarryHOST
Um, Postmortem with Nick Garris, it's an interview podcast.
LarryHOST
Uh, Talking Out of Harmony, it's my buddy Dan Moore's podcast.
Victor M. RuizHOST
Including those two, and they were all added to the 2001 remaster.
Victor M. RuizHOST
Four of the original nine tracks came from Sad Wings of Destiny.
Brad DahlGUEST
Yeah.
Brad DahlGUEST
Yeah.
JayHOST
It's, it's different nowadays.
JayHOST
I mean, just think, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stay in Class, Hell Bent for Leather, Killing Machine, you know, all came out, well, and you could just-
SymeonGUEST
Four years
JayHOST
... keep going.
JayHOST
Um, it's a very proggy record, uh, in, in structure of the songs, and I think Simon really played a huge role in conveying the sound and, uh, and the vision really that Priest had for this record and, and, and the new th- direction they were going in.
JayHOST
Um, another highly influential record, uh, in the middle of the three most influential heavy metal records in history, I think.
JayHOST
You know, right after another, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, and Stained Class right in a row.
JayHOST
Three highly, highly influential records.
RayHOST
So when did you first hear this album to your recollection?
PhilHOST
So this is like my Judas Priest, without going into too much detail, like my Judas Priest journey is like I heard Sad Wings of Destiny.
PhilHOST
Sad Wings of Destiny was the first one I heard properly.
PhilHOST
Like I'd heard Breaking the Law and probably a Painkiller track, you know, randomly.
PhilHOST
But I bought a heavy metal compilation in like a $2 bin.
PhilHOST
It was one of those heavy metal compilations that's just got like Ace of Spades, Smoke on the Water, etc.
PhilHOST
But it happened to have like eight of the nine songs of Sad Wings of Destiny on there.
PhilHOST
That's interesting.
MichaelHOST
It is.
MichaelHOST
For what it's worth, it feels like Sad Wings of Destiny not taking off the time was meant to be.
MichaelHOST
I think they might have become more bombastic and rock opera and less metal if it had been a hit.
MichaelHOST
And the glory of British Steel, Ram It Down and Painkiller wouldn't have followed.
Scott IanGUEST
And even like Judas Priest, who I don't know that anyone was calling it heavy metal yet in like 78, 79, but like some of the stuff they were doing at that point.
Scott IanGUEST
Sad Wings of Destiny.
Scott IanGUEST
Yeah, I mean.
Scott IanGUEST
I mean, a lot of it, it's very gothic, prog, heavy rock, all of that stuff combined, you know, the two guitar players, you know, but it didn't sound like what Thin Lizzy sounded like with two guitar players.
Uncle SteveHOST
It's almost hokey.
Uncle SteveHOST
But it's on the Sad Wings of Destiny, like their first real we're Judas Priest and we sound like Judas Priest kind of album.
Uncle SteveHOST
Yeah.
Uncle SteveHOST
It's not rock and roll, you know.
JayHOST
We have Sermons of the Sinner by KK's Priest.
JayHOST
and Sad Wings of Destiny, Judas Priest's second album back in 1976.
JayHOST
45 years separate these two records.
JayHOST
Both records prominently display the guitar wizardry of one Kenneth Downing, who is also the only musician common to both records.
JayHOST
Both bands are on tour right now as we speak.
JayHOST
and amazingly both bands have very similar set lists which we'll get into but uh we'll start with sad wings of destiny 1976 second and last record under the gull label This record really showed what the true authentic Judas Priest was and the direction they're going.
JayHOST
And, you know, the sound they wanted.
JayHOST
The production was done by Jeffrey Calvert and Max West, but engineered by Mr. Chris Sangarides, who later on, of course, produced Painkiller.
Martin PopoffHOST
Very cool.
Martin PopoffHOST
On the very same day, Sad Wings of Destiny comes out.
Martin PopoffHOST
Absolute masterpiece.
Martin PopoffHOST
Thin Lizzy gives us their most famous album, Jailbreak.
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