The BTS album released in 2016 that includes “Blood Sweat & Tears” is Wings.
Wings is BTS’s second Korean-language studio album and fourth studio album overall. Big Hit Entertainment released it on October 10, 2016, with “Blood Sweat & Tears” as its lead single. The song’s themes of temptation, desire and personal growth fit the album’s broader coming-of-age concept.
The album drew heavily on Hermann Hesse’s novel Demian, which explores identity, transformation and the tension between innocence and experience. Wings also gave each of BTS’s seven members a solo track, allowing the group to combine individual perspectives with a unified concept. A common mix-up is You Never Walk Alone, the 2017 repackage of Wings; it added songs such as “Spring Day” and “Not Today,” but “Blood Sweat & Tears” originated on the 2016 album Wings.