THOR - FRIESLAND 1982

BIOGRAPHY: In February ’82 the band from Friesland starts as ENGINE , but after a short while they change their name into Thor (strange because the Canadian Thor were also already around).
The band is heavily influence by bands as Priest, Accept and the Scorpions.  So much that the guitarist reconstruct his guitar into a Flying V ! That’s not really unusual if you have them in your band logo.
The band gets quite popular in Friesland. Mainly because there aren’t many Frisian HM bands. But there were a lot of hungry Frisian headbangers in those days. In’83 the band makes a demo tape, which was mainly recorded for the promoters, which made it pretty hard to get for the fans. A year later a 2nd 4 track demo is released. Songs: ‘Get Lost’,  ‘Sinner’s Fake’, ‘Metal Thinking’ and  ‘Broken Brakes’. 4 good Heavy Metal songs, but not too spectacular. At this time Herman Rooswinkel is the only guitarist as Henk van der Laar left the band earlier that time. On the live front the band does a lot of gigs including a support gig for Vandenberg. In the second half of the 80s not much is heard from the band, so we assume the band split up around the mid 80s.

(Stefan)

MEMBERS:

Sietze Braaksma – Vocals
Herman Rooswinkel – Guitars
Henk van der Laar - Guitars
Age Zalmstra – Bass
Meinte Terpstra - Drums

DISCOGRAPHY:

1983 Demo I
1984 Demo II

MEMORABILIA



Live picture of THOR (The Frisian band, not the rock warrior!)


Thor line-up picture