THE SAD WINGS

We are all familiar with Judas Priest, but we aren't all familiar with the Mexican band Abril (April). Apparently they begun their journey through rock history in 1984 and released their self-titled debut record in '88, four years after formation. Abril played very synthesizer driven hard rock with a few cool tunes I quite dig! But they also managed to play a few horrid notes as well, at least on the album in focus today: "Testamento", their second record, which took another six years to perfect.

So in 1994 Abril asked a person to do a nice cover for them, and so that person did! The cover for "Testamento" is great! Winged death holds a naked child, who just wants to rock with his guitar, in his hand, probably offering him the journey of his life.. Or more sadly; of his death.



But as you can see, I'm guessing the cover artist wasn't that confident about painting wings, so he thought it would save him some trouble borrowing the shape from Judas Priest's record "Sad Wings of Destiny" from 1976. No shame in that. It's not a total rip, I mean mostly just the shape right? Who ever did the cover did it good and should be proud. Actually the whole sleeve is great but unfortunately I couldn't find any version who could do it justice quality-wise on internet, but this will do:



You get the picture!