On Thorns I Lay (2019), Live at Demon's Gate Festival in Athens, Greece
Background information
Also known as
Paralysis, Phlebotomy
Origin
Athens, Greece
Genres
Gothic metal[1]
doom metal[1]
death-doom[1]
Years active
1992–2006, 2015–present
Labels
Molon Lave Records
Holy Records
Black Lotus Records
Sleaszy Rider Records
Alone Records
Lifeforce Records
Season of Mist
Members
Peter "Invoker" Miliadis (vocals/bass) Chris Dragamestianos (guitar) Nikolas Perlepe (guitar) Antonis Ventouris (keyboards) Stelios Darakis (drums)
Past members
Stefanos Kintzoglou (vocals and bass) Akis Pastras (guitar) Giannis Koskinas (bass) Maxi Nil (vocals) Jim Ramses Minas Ganeau (guitar/vocals) Fotis Chondroudakis (drums) Thanazis Hatzaiagapis (guitars) Elena Doroftei (viola) Georgia Grammatikou/Grammatikos Claudia J. Marcela Buruiana Roula Mamalis (keyboards, female vocals) Andrew Olaru (drums) Ionna Doroftei (Keyboards)
Website
onthornsilay.live
On Thorns I Lay is a Greek death-doom metal and gothic metal band founded in Athens in 1992.[2] The group has gone through different stylistic facets throughout its career, starting with brutal death metal in their early days, then transitioning to a blackened death doom symphonic style with their first EP, and later embracing atmospheric doom-death in their early albums and later gothic metal with their subsequent albums. On Thorns I Lay is among the bands of the first major gothic doom wave that systematized the principle of contrasting vocals known as the "beauty and the beast" style that became popular in the late 1990s. Towards the end of the first part of their career in the early 2000s, they shifted towards a more stripped-down and introspective rock-metal style.
The band went on hiatus in 2006, for almost ten years. They reunited in 2015 and gradually returned to the doom-death style of their beginnings. They have released four albums since their reunion, the most recent of which was released in October 2023. It is noteworthy that the group experienced a split in 2021-2022. Several of its members, including the singer, guitarist, and former drummer, left the band to reform their original band, Phlebotomy, thus reactivating a previous incarnation of the group under which they also released a record in 2023.
Through the years the band's played in Greece and in Europe together with Dream Theater, In Flames, Anathema, Amorphis, Katatonia, Tiamat, The Gathering, Satyricon,Septic Flesh and many more.[3]
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Greece, and was also known for her work with OnThornsILay, guest with Moonspell and her former band Elysion. On 3 December 2010, VoA announced the new title...
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Tripping Daisy "I Got 5 on It" – Luniz & Michael Marshall "I Got Id" – Pearl Jam & Neil Young "I Hate U" – Prince "I Know" – Dionne Farris "I Wanna B With...
released on 25 March 2013. New Zero God teamed up with symphonic power metal vocalist Maxi Nil (Visions of Atlantis, ex-Elysion, ex-OnThornsILay) on backing...
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became the permanent venue of the festival. Asking Alexandria were to play on the second day but did not perform due to health issues of their drummer....
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and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. And other seeds...
corpus of religious relics. The reliquary held two thorns believed to have come from the crown of thorns, while the cross contained another, substantial...
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