Thorns of the Carrion was a doom metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, active from 1992 to 2002. They played glacial and sorrowful death doom metal, with lyrical themes about melancholy, love, nature and death- The group reformed briefly in 2005 with members of Cincinnati's Elusive Travel. Other than the re-release of "The Gardens of Dead Winter", all of their material was self-released.