Thrash Queen
| Thrash Queen | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin |
New Britain , Connecticut , United States
|
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | unknown |
| Last occupation | |
| Diane "Princess Die" Frost | |
| Vikki Stone | |
| Nikki Santos | |
| JK Johnson | |
| former members | |
bass |
Jamie Winters (1985-1986) |
Drums |
Robin Paradis (1985-1986) |
guitar |
Laura Maguire (1985-1986) |
Thrash Queen was an American thrash metal band from New Britain (Connecticut) . They were the first all-women band in the genre.
Band history
Original tape
Diane "Princess Die" Frost and Matt Brooks were part of the metal scene in Manchester , New Hampshire . Brooks played guitar in the band Hunter. Since he lost both legs in a car accident, he received social security payments , which he invested in a small metal label called Landslyde. After Hunter, he founded Killer Fox . In the course of the success of the women's band Girlschool and the thrash metal band Metallica , he also had the idea to combine both bands. He suggested this to Frost and Thrash Queen was born.
The band was only put together during the production of the debut album. Robin Paradis, Laura Maguire and Jamie Winters were part of the line-up that also recorded the first album. Manslayer appeared on Landslyde Records in the United States in 1984 and was released in Europe in 1986 by the German independent label Metal Enterprises . The album had a very poor production as it was only recorded on four tracks and on very poor equipment.
Another line-up existed but did not record an album. The band broke up at an unknown point in time.
Thrash Queen II
| Thrash Queen | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin |
 Germany
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| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 1990 |
Metal Enterprises owned the rights to the first album. Since Thrash Queen and Killer Fox both broke up in the late 1990s, the idea of producing two more albums by both bands came up. For this purpose, studio musicians were hired to imitate the style. The original line-up is unknown. Ashes to Ashes was released in 1990. The album was produced by Holger Schmidt (also known as Karl Kraftlos).
Music style and reception
Thrash Queen, along with Killer Fox, are considered one of the worst metal bands of all time and cemented Metal Enterprises' status as one of the worst metal labels. In fact, after producing several Böhsen Onkelz albums, the record company tried to build a reputation as a right-wing rock label. The amateurish production in particular made it difficult to take the band seriously. Also musically there was little new offer, the music was kept simple and fast, the singing simple and reminded of a voice that is under the influence of helium . In terms of quality, the second work, recorded by studio musicians, was much better produced, but musically similarly borderline. Since there was not enough material, the album was brought to a normal playing time by ambient sounds.
In the magazine Horror Infernal Jens Reimnitz made a bet that anyone who had tormented themselves through the sequence of “song blamers” would “never want to hear anything from this band again”. Uwe Lerch analyzed in his review for the crash , the manufacturing principle magazine: girls from the bar plus songs by idiots plus " Chopper (the voice out of the toilet) as a manager ." Matthias Mader noted in US Metal Vol. 2 that Manslayer the five worst heavy metal - LPs heard he has ever launched. He would have liked even the first releases of Cryptic Slaughter better. In addition, Mader gave a comment from Ingo Nowotny, founder of Metal Enterprises, about the band as follows: “That was shit! The sound was really bad, back then I bought [...] Thrash Queen purely for the look. I thought this Kiss- oriented splint [Killerfox - editor's note. Ed.] And an all-girl thrash band would do well, but these records weren't exactly the best. ”According to Mader, the band was described as“ trash metal ”in the info sheet and was the first to be complete female thrash metal band from the USA. However, the band was referred to in the information sheet as "Trash Queen". Ashes to Ashes is even worse than its predecessor and a case for the Guinness Book of Records .
According to Olaf Berhorst from Metal Hammer , it's hard to take Ashes to Ashes seriously. On the album there are “long intros , no motivation, and singing that sounds like Nina Hagen has a toothache”. He has nothing against a completely female band in Thrash Metal, but the offer of more competent male bands is very large. The women bonus is no longer sufficient with Thrash Queen, which is why it remains in an unsuitable attempt. The music serves at best for amusement, whereby laughter gets stuck in your throat when you consider that other, talented bands would not get a record deal.
Discography
- 1984: Manslayer (Landslyde Records / 1986: Metal Enterprises )
- 1990: Ashes to Ashes (Metal Enterprises)
Web links
- Thrash Queen at Discogs (English)
- Fanpage
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manslayer - Behind the Scenes. Fanpage, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Questions and Answers. Fanpage, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Ashes to Ashes - Behind the Scene. Fanpage, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
- ^ Metal Enterprises. The Corroseum, accessed July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Thrash Queen - Manslayer. (No longer available online.) Servileinsurrection.com, November 30, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on July 31, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thomas Bawden: Shit Shade # 6 - Thrash Queen - Manslayer. (No longer available online.) Axisofmetal.com, July 4, 2014, archived from the original on October 28, 2014 ; accessed on July 31, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jens Reimnitz: Thrash Queen. Manslayer . In: Horror Infernal . Heavy metal magazine. No. June 10 , 1987, sound check. LP reviews at a glance, p. 38 .
- ↑ Uwe Lerch: Thrash Queen. Manslayer . In: Crash . The definitive hard rock & metal magazine. March 1987, LP Reviews, p. 67 .
- ↑ Matthias Mader: US Metal Vol. 2 . IP Verlag Jese / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-05-7 , p. 184 f .
- ↑ Olaf Berhorst: Thrash Queen . Ashes to Ashes. In: Metal Hammer . January 1992, p. 48 .
