| A Distant Thunder | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Helstar |
| Cover: | HelstarADistantThunder.jpg |
| Released: | September 29, 1988 |
| Recorded: | Pacific Studios, Venice, California |
| Length: | 43:17 |
| Label: | Metal Blade[1] |
| Producer: | Bill Metoyer |
| Prev Title: | Remnants of War |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Nosferatu |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
A Distant Thunder is the third album by American heavy metal band Helstar, released by Metal Blade Records in September 1988,[2] [3] their first album on the label and found the band perfecting their signature mix of power metal and thrash metal. It includes a cover of Scorpions' "He's a Woman, She's a Man", appearing on their 1977 album Taken by Force.