Album Rating: 4.5

Nice. I think you might actually like it

Album Rating: 3.5

Honestly... I thought Sad Wings of Destiny was really boring. "Dreamer Deceiver" and "Tyrant" had cool solos, but the rest of the album was kind of generic, even vocally.



"Epitaph" was the only song on there that was particularly bad, but the rest was just so typical of heavy metal, that it barely caught my attention.

lol

Generic, typical heavy metal even though at the time it was released nothing sounded even remotely like it.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Generic, typical heavy metal even though at the time it was released nothing sounded even remotely like it."



So you're saying it started a trend of really boring albums? Not really much of a feat.



That's about as impressive as being the first glam metal band...

No I'm not saying that. Nothing of it's style has every really come close to it anyway.

Also it probably has the best (and some of the most influential) vocals on any metal album ever so it's hardly "generic" vocally.

@Ars: Don't judge it on one listen dude.

Album Rating: 3.5

Seeing as though I always absolutely hated Axl Rose's voice... the fact that Halford sounded similar made it even harder to enjoy...

Album Rating: 5.0

lol

Lol, Halford sounds nothing like Axl.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Lol, Halford sounds nothing like Axl."



His high notes do.

lol how does Halford sound like Axl Rose?

Do all singers who (often) sing in a high register sound the same to your ears or something?

Album Rating: 5.0

"His high notes do"



lol again

Ars, Sad Wings took me time to get into, so I suggest you listen to it more.

I can understand why you wouldn't dig it though.

I'd say Axi's voice sounds more like Dave Mustaine's, except with greater range

Ars doesn't have ears, the Axl Rose comment pretty much confirmed that.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Do all singers who (often) sing in a high register sound the same to your ears or something?"





I'm a huge Mike Patton, Led Zeppelin, and Soundgarden fan, so obviously not.



Maybe Axl Rose was a bad comparison, but even if Halford was one of the first to have like

the typical 80s heavy metal voice (in the 70s of course...), his vocals didn't do anything for me

and hardly came off as unique. Which is surprising because in the later Priest stuff I've heard,

his vocals were usually the biggest stand out.



The bass and drum parts were kind of just there... which was also really disappointing. All the

album really had that was impressive was it's guitar solos.



But hey, I've never really had a taste for heavy metal outside of Black Sabbath and if you

count them, Led Zeppelin. Both of course come off as unique as hell, which is my main draw

towards them.

Sad Wings has far and away Halford's best vocal performance so I have no idea what you're talking about.


I'm not really a fan of Halford's vocals on Priest's later albums tbh.

Sad Wings is just as unique as Sabbath and Zeppelin, which have both also been copied to death.

By later, I hope you mean post-SC Jamie.

Yeah I mean 80's and beyond, danny.