{"id":10821,"date":"2013-02-01T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:52:18","slug":"album-review-a-sound-of-thunder-queen-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10821","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: A Sound of Thunder &#8211; Queen of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?attachment_id=10822\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10822\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10822\" alt=\"asot\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/asot.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>A Sound of Thunder &#8211; Queen of Hell<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: January 29, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Sound of Thunder reminds me of classic Warlock with a nice shot of NWOBHM injected in there for good measure. Lead vocalist Nina Osegueda has a naturally soulful metal voice that really reminds me of Doro without sounding just like her. She definitely has a voice of her own but let\u2019s not forget the rest of her band who are extremely tight and more than capable of setting a kick ass foundation with some mind blowing double bass drumming and guitars that actually have some feel to them. Feel and groove is something that isn\u2019t always present in all metal albums but A Sound of Thunder manages to couple the heavy aspect with the ability to actually feel and groove in their songs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The songs on \u201cQueen of Hell\u201d are fun and they sounded absolutely amazing. The opening title track is one of the most current epic pieces of metal awesomeness I\u2019ve heard and Osegueda proves why she\u2019s one of my new favorite metal vocalists. \u201cHello Nurse\u201d is a fun, tongue-in-cheek number that reminds me of the kind of corny sense of humor that a lot of NWOBHM bands displayed back in the day. With its cheesy spoken dialog and bar room style piano playing it came across almost like a Rocky Horror Picture Show kind of number. When I first saw that they were covering the Ian Gillan era Black Sabbath song \u201cTrashed\u201d I rolled my eyes. In my opinion this was Sabbath at its worse but leave it to A Sound of Thunder to take that song and make it their own. It made me realize that this song is pretty fucking kick ass and totally metal when done out of the context of Sabbath. The only thing I wasn\u2019t 100% sold on was the \u201cother\u201d version of the song \u201cQueen of Hell\u201d featuring guest vocals by Benedictum singer Veronica Freeman. I would\u2019ve preferred to hear another song and to be brutally honest; I don\u2019t like Freeman\u2019s voice at all. I feel like Nina\u2019s voice is way better so why take her out of the mix to feature a subpar vocalist?<\/p>\n<p>Queen of Hell is a fantastic release from another unsung great metal band that I hope many will turn their ears towards. It\u2019s a great platter of face melting metal that every fan of good old fashioned kick ass metal will enjoy. It\u2019s nothing ground breaking or extremely original but that doesn\u2019t take away from its greatness one bit. Queen of Hell is one hell of a fun, blood pumping heavy metal ride that once it\u2019s over you\u2019ll dust yourself off and want to go again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sound of Thunder &#8211; Queen of Hell Release Date: January 29, 2013 A Sound of Thunder reminds me of classic Warlock with a nice shot of NWOBHM injected in there for good measure. Lead vocalist Nina Osegueda has a naturally soulful metal voice that really reminds me of Doro without sounding just like her. She definitely has a voice of her own but let\u2019s not forget the rest of her band who are extremely tight and more than capable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[884,898],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-a-sound-of-thunder","tag-queen-of-hell-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19800,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/19800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}