On Thorns I Lay is a heavy metal band founded in 1992 in Athens, Greece, under the name of "Phlebotomy". At their beginning, they had a style that was close to doom metal, but, little by little, it evolved towards gothic metal, emphasizing melancolic themes or alternately, in the way of the band Theatre of Tragedy, having cavernous masculine voices and soprano feminine voices.In 1994, the founders of the band, Chris and Stefanos, moved for graduate studies to Romania, where they also had some lo