Wings 2025

Paul McCartney has today announced WINGS, a new Wings ‘best of’ that will be available across a number of formats including a McCartney and SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio with Dolby Atmos Mixes. Unlike the Wingspan compilation from 2001, this new collection sticks strictly to songs from Wings albums (and Wings non-album singles) and so doesn’t include any solo hits adjacent to this era (such as ‘Another Day’ or ‘Coming Up’) or anything from 1971’s Ram (credited to Paul and Linda McCartney), despite ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ being a US No 1 hit single in September 1971.

The Wings Of Steel have been soaring through the Winds Of Time, and have brought back with them some of the best quality heavy metal you'll hear in modern times. Forged in Los Angeles by vocalist Leo Unnermark and guitarist Parker Halub, Wings of Steel channels the fire of classic heavy metal with modern precision, dynamic songwriting, and soul. Unnermark’s soaring range and Halub’s explosive riffs unite in a sound that’s both timeless and unmistakably their own. After turning heads with their self-titled debut EP (2022), and full-length Gates of Twilight (2023), Wings of Steel quickly rose from underground buzz to international attention. Their first European tour in 2024 brought sold-out crowds and the live album Live in France (2024), capturing the band’s raw, high-energy performances. Now, with their new full-length album Winds of Time (2025), Wings of Steel takes their sound to the next level — a defining statement that cements their place among heavy metal’s most promising new forces.

The year 1976 was crucial for the evolution of heavy metal, as landmark albums like Rainbow's Rising and Scorpions' Virgin Killer began to reshape the genre. Perhaps none was quite as important as Judas Priest's sophomore effort, Sad Wings of Destiny, which simultaneously took heavy metal to new depths of darkness and new heights of technical precision. Building on the hard prog of bands like Queen and Wishbone Ash, plus the twin-guitar innovations of the latter and Thin Lizzy, Sad Wings fused these new influences with the gothic doom of Black Sabbath, the classical precision of Deep Purple, and the tight riffery of the more compact Led Zeppelin tunes. Priest's prog roots are still readily apparent here, particularly on the spacy ballad "Dreamer Deceiver," the multi-sectioned "Victim of Changes," and the softer sonic textures that appear from time to time. But if Priest's style was still evolving, the band's trademarks are firmly in place – the piercing, operatic vocals of Rob Halford and the tightly controlled power riffing of guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton.