Sad Wings of Destiny boasts one of the most recognizable album covers in Patrick Woodroffe's Fallen Angels. Depicting an outstretched angel surrounded by flames on the ground, the band's trident ...

Heavy metal may have first roared into existence circa 1970, thanks to the pioneering work of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and countless other luminaries, but it was Judas Priest who ...

Sad Wings of Destiny, band’s first great LP, a pillar of heavy metal, my favorite LP from their first era and a flawed masterpiece, turns 40 years old. Those flaws are now part of the album’s ...

Everybody had their own sound, I thought: You wouldn’t mix up the Scorpions with Iron Maiden.” Here are Mikael Åkerfeldt’s 10 favorite metal albums, with his commentary on each.

"Thematically, it moves from theme to theme to theme, but musically, we really wanted to make a record that's basically like our 'Sad Wings of Destiny' [Judas Priest's second album] ... a record where ...

Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny are referred to as two albums that helped shape the sound of heavy metal music with songs like “Rocka Rolla,” ‘The Ripper,” and “Victim Of Changes.” ...

Reach Music Publishing has acquired both the master and publishing rights of Judas Priest’s Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings Of Destiny albums from Gull Entertainments. Reach will be working in ...

The heavy metal band, formed in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1969, is known for albums such as “Sad Wings of Destiny” and “Sin After Sin.” They have sold over 50 million albums since their ...