 Artist: Thor: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Heavy Discography:  Triumphant Year: 2002 Tracks: 12 Even by heavy metal's innately flakey standards, the artist known as Thor was an downright superfreak! Straight-faced Norse god imitator, semipro muscleman, onstage grappler, all-round public presentation originative person (known to bend a steel measure 'tween his dentition!), one-time worker, and, oh yeah, regular occasional rock-and-roll & revolve vocalizer, Thor (full fake name Jon Mikl Thor) was a Vancouver, Canada, aboriginal with a flare for both dramaturgy and music. Although most heavy metal fans would wholly become cognizant of his antics in the mid-'80s, the roots of Thor's act come all the way stake to the early '70s, when the soundless teen victor of the Mr. Junior Canada anaerobic exercise title decided to parlay his sudden celebrity into a full-on character based on the ubiquitous Viking god of thunder. Astonishingly, it worked, and after short stints doing everything from playing in bands to leading in a Las Vegas review dressed in gladiator gearing to working as a nude waiter in Hawaii, in 1976 Thor landed a engagement on The Merv Griffin Show! This photograph proved sufficiency to help him batten a recording shrink, and, on with then-bandmembers John Shand (guitar), Terry McKeown (bass), and Bill Wade (drums), record a debut album the following class. Curiously entitled Keep the Dogs Away, its poor man's imitation of Kiss and Alice Cooper's tough glam style (self-labeled as "muscular tissue rock") didn't precisely determine the world on fire, and relegated Thor and his changing upchuck of bandmembers to a club-playing beingness for EP (1979's Gladiator, 1980's Striking Viking) to document their medicine. In fact, Thor's career wouldn't heat back up once more until 1984, during an era in democratic music's trajectory that was far more propitious to his over the pinnacle shenanigans and lingering songwriting second-rater. That year, a series of singles released by the flyspeck Albion label generated Roadrunner, which in turn quickly issued 1985's not-totally-embarrassing "warrior alloy" album Exclusively the Strong. Unfortunately, this as well sold far likewise peaked to keep the band -- then accomplished by guitarist Steve Price, bassist Keith Zazzi, drummer Mike Favata, and, virtually unforgettably, backup isaac M. Singer Pantera -- from organism dropped, and followup albums like the same year's hurriedly packaged Alive in Detroit, 1986's Recruits -- Wild in the Streets, and 1987's Tritonz were all released by of all time littler indie labels, and to ever greater populace indifference. (It didn't help that the last-place iI were likewise issued under dissimilar name calling: the first using the Jon Mikl Thor sobriquet, the secondment a nonmeaningful false name of Tritonz.) Thor's career was in effect over at this leg, only he astonishingly returned to sporadic recording around a ten later, having since released 1997's Thunderstruck: Tales from the Equinox, 2001's Dogz II, 2002's Exultant, and 2005's Thor Against the World. In addition, two collections smartly (ahem!) named An-THOR-logy have emerged: the first, from 1997, organism a CD, and the second, from 2005, a DVD aggregation the sights, the sounds, and the smells of Thor's number one tenner of being. A year later, Thor released Devastation of Musculation. |
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