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Release date: 23 March 1976
Style: Heavy metal, Hard rock

Rating:

8.7 | 493 votes

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681 have it
67 want it


01. Victim Of Changes
02. The Ripper
03. Dreamer Deceiver
04. Deceiver
05. Prelude
06. Tyrant
07. Genocide
08. Epitaph
09. Island Of Domination

Top 20 albums of 1976: 4

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Rating:
9.0
Few times in the history of heavy metal has the entire genre's future depended so much upon the release of a single album. Black Sabbath did it with their 1970 debut, Metallica with Kill Em All, Death with Scream Bloody Gore... and a small handful of others. One of those others happened to be Judas Priest, with 1976's now-legendary Sad Wings Of Destiny. Though the band certainly couldn't have imagined it at the time, this release would in turn spearhead the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, which would subsequently influence many American metal fans, leading ultimately to the beginnings of thrash metal and the other soon-to-come extreme metal sub-genres, fundamentally altering heavy metal forever, into the current form that we all know and love today.

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published 01.02.2012 | Comments (16)

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Ace Frawley - 26.05.2011 at 13:32  
Rating: 9 Worth listening to just to hear Rob Halford's vocal range. Killer riff on the track Victim of Changes.
Shock - 04.09.2012 at 14:22  
  So few comments and such low score for an album like this...this album is close to perfection! Not all ears can understand this album...personaly i speak for many...well!
Jaeryd17‍ - 09.09.2012 at 11:40  
Rating: 9
Written by Ace Frawley on 26.05.2011 at 13:32

Worth listening to just to hear Rob Halford's vocal range. Killer riff on the track Victim of Changes.

Totally agree. Victim of Changes is definitely one of my favorite tracks on the album.
Purone - 23.09.2012 at 18:38  
Rating: 10 My fave JP album.Not much heavy but it rocks absolutly.
Dreamer Deciever 's solo is amazing.
Best songs Dreamer Deciever, Victim of Changes, Tyrant
megadeath13 - 12.01.2013 at 00:30  
  Absolutely fantastic! Victim of changes and Tyrant belong to my favourite Priest songs.
Marcel Hubregtse - 19.01.2013 at 18:40  
  Almost 37 years later and this is still Judas Priest's best album by miles.
Azarath - 20.01.2013 at 21:47  
Rating: 10 It is my favourite Priest album as well.
king_matt - 21.01.2013 at 05:27  
Rating: 10 This is the only Priest album that I can call perfect.
quisableed - 14.03.2013 at 12:55  
Rating: 10 Pure Heavy Metal
metrockicka - 30.04.2013 at 15:30  
Rating: 9 It has two classic songs on the history of heavy metal ,i think.
"VICTIM OF CHANGES" and "DREAMER DECEIVER" and one kick ass songs "Tyrant" .
classic heavy metal album from judas priest.

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