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.