The duo is a female/male studio collaboration between vocalist Mia Petals and multi-instrumentalist/producer Johnny Thorns. Combining sometimes fragile, yet sometimes cabaret, and other times angelic female vocals against gritty guitars, haunting synths, and delicate piano sounds; they create what comes across as darkwave/electronic/rock with a touch of metal.

Petals And Thorns has released one studio album:

"The Broken Mirror" (2014).

History

Basement Demos (2009-2014)

The duo met in 2009. Musician Johnny had been working on a project intended for female vocals starting in 2006. He had attempted to work with three different vocalists between 2006-2008, before meeting Mia (via the internet) through a mutual friend; only to then realize they had both known each other earlier in life. Taking some time to get aquainted musically, they didn't release any material publicly, until 2011. The initial Petals And Thorns demos were self-leaked as free downloads online, and reached around 3000 downloads before the band decided to remove them in light of an official finished self-made release.

Garnering the early attention of DJs' and internet radio shows, such as: DJ Raven Digitalis' "Midnite Soundscapes", Tampa based "Dark Horizons", University of Columbia's "Dark Entries", Josh Alexander PDX in Portland, and having starred as musical guests on the Cleveland area local television show "The Daughter Of The Ghoul Show", all played a significant part in helping to increase the band's visibility prior to having their official release.

With their debut album only a little more than half way finished, they began to perform live. November 2012 would be their first performance, opening for long time legendary Cleveland gothic darkwave band Lestat.

The Broken Mirror Release (2014-2015)

Fast forward a couple of years, a handful of performances locally and regionally were had, and the additional songs for the debut album to be completed, were finished. The original release of "The Broken Mirror" was, via Bandcamp, on Oct 29, 2014. The band found last minute funding for a limited 100 CD pressing which was made officially available through their own BigCartel online store on December 30, 2014. "The Broken Mirror" became offically available via the normal digital mediums of iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, etc on February 10, 2015.

Early 2015 would find Petals And Thorns' first print interview with "Gothic Noir Magazine", and songs from the album would be featured again on "Dark Horizons" , "Dark Entries", and "Midnite Soundscapes" radio shows, as well as "Communion After Dark", Cleveland's own "Dare Waves" and "COMA Music's Ooontzcast Compilation Vol 1".

Not satisfied with the idea of just releasing music out into the world without the financial backing to promote it properly through normal means (via touring or advertising), the duo set out to instead do what they could for bigger promotion of the album by filiming DIY music videos, one song at a time, starting in November of 2014. They are currently a little past halfway, but have said they are planning to have finished all of the videos by October 2015. You can see the videos ----> here. The band's second video "Immoral Disclosure" was featured on the "Right This Minute" website and hailed as thought provoking.

The duo reported on May 8th that "The Broken Mirror" has been accepted by Pandora and is currently being added to the "Music Genome Project".

Concurrently, they have hinted that they are in the "beginning stages" of creating a new album with an unknown release date.