THOR – LET THE BLOOD RUN RED Red Vinyl 7″ – Nr MINT UK

Thor – Let The Blood Run Red
(Ultra! Noise Records  1984  ION165)
UK Pressing

Red Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Jon Mikl Thor (born 1953), better known as Thor, is a bodybuilding champion, actor, songwriter, screenwriter, historian, vocalist and musician.

As a bodybuilder, he was the first Canadian to win both the Mr. Canada and Mr. USA titles. During his bodybuilding career, he has achieved over 40 titles around the world. As a musician, he is the front man for the heavy metal band Thor, billing himself as “The Legendary Rock Warrior”. He has also had a career in acting, appearing in such films as Recruits (1986), Zombie Nightmare (1987), Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare (1987) and FUBAR (2002).

Thor started the concept Thor in 1973. He combined strength feats, props, costumes and showmanship with music: his feats included bending solid steel bars in his teeth and having solid concrete blocks smashed off his chest with a sledgehammer. Jon Thor created the “THOR T in Shield Logo” in 1973 which would become the copyright and trademark for the band. Thor toured Canada and the US throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, Thor performed on American national television with his appearance on The Merv Griffin Show.

Shortly after, Jon recorded the album Keep the Dogs Away in 1976–77 through his own company God Of Thunder Productions. The album was licensed to RCA and released in early 1978. Jon appeared on the cover artwork as “Thor The Rock Warrior”, holding back four dobermans. In February 1984 Thor performed at the Marquee in London, England, to great reaction from the audience which included Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The review in Kerrang magazine proclaimed “He Came, He Thor, He Conquered”. The reception of that show launched Thor’s career to a new level. He then licensed recordings to Albion Records. Albion released songs such as “Thunder On the Tundra” and “Let the Blood Run Red” which went to #1 on the UK Rock Charts. Thor toured throughout the UK performing at such concerts as the Great Yarmouth Festival and released albums such as Only the Strong (1986) and Recruits – Wild in the Streets (1986).

In 1987, Jon Thor retired from live performances and started to write and produce films as well as forming his own record label. By 1997 he had returned to the recording studio and started to make live appearances with the release of Ride of the Chariots. More albums followed from 1998 to 2009. In 2004 Jon Thor was voted one of the top 100 greatest frontmen of all time in Classic Rock Magazine by an international panel of journalists as. In 2005 Thor signed with Smog Veil Records and released Thor Against the World followed by Devastation of Musculation in 2006.

In 2009, Thor signed on to the label Vulcan Sky Records, and released the albums Steam Clock (2009) and Sign of the V and re-released the 1983 EP Unchained. The same year he played with his former bandmates Steve Price, Mike Favata, and Ben Perman at the Sweden Rock Festival and Muskelrock Festival in Sweden and the Sauna Open Air Metal Festival in Tampere, Finland.

In 2011, Thor embarked on a tour of Scandinavia from May 31 to June 7, with Frank Soda on guitar, Savage Watts on drums and Killer Kilby on bass. He played at DOM in Helsinki, Finland on June 1, performing his live rock opera and showcasing his latest film Thor – The Rock Opera; then, he revisited the Muskelrock Festival in Alvesta, Sweden from June 2 to June 4.

After months in the studio recording the 2012 album Thunderstryke for Rock Saviour Records in Germany, Thor returned to live performing by headlining the Armstrong Metal Fest 2012 at Hassen Arena. Thunderstryke (2012) and Thunderstryke II (2013) were released to rave reviews and commercial success worldwide.

In 2013, Thor signed with Cleopatra Records in Los Angeles, California and released a CD/DVD deluxe edition of his fifth album, Only the Strong (1985), in May 2014. This package includes additional unreleased bonus tracks and lost live footage.

In 2014 Cleopatra Records re-released the 1983 EP Unchained which included the version of the 1982 EP Lightning Strikes Again.

In 2015 Thor released what many critics are calling his greatest album of all time titled Metal Avenger through Cleopatra Records.

Thor toured major cities during November 2015 in United States to promote album Metal Avenger and the documentary film I Am Thor. A short North American tour followed in March, 2016 along with the Canadian release on Raven Banner.

The official reissue of Thor’s 1977 Keep the Dogs Away album will be released May 13, 2016 as a Super Deluxe 2 CD + DVD set by Deadline Records. This will coincide with a vinyl and digital launch of the recording.

A huge epic show billed as ‘Thor – a Rock Odyssey’ is to be Thor’s greatest live event of all time. It is set to take place May 14, 2016 in New York City at the Highline Ballroom. The spectacle, produced by Fabio Productions, will be presented much like a Broadway show featuring three parts. ‘Thor- a Rock Odyssey’ will feature Thor performing his 1977 Keep the Dogs Away album live and in its entirety, followed by a ‘Battle for New York’ where Thor battles superhuman strongman ‘Titano – The 8th Wonder of The World’. In Part three, dubbed the ‘Power Set’, Thor belts out his greatest hits along with some newly penned tunes written especially for this show.

On August 4, 2017 Thor released the album titled Beyond the Pain Barrier which was co written with John Leibel and Ted Jedlicki