L'âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produ… Read Full Bio ↴L'âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces darkwave, and more recently also industrial metal.

Many of L'âme Immortelle's songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band's electronic roots into the neue deutsche härte (New German hardness) genre.
L'âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Vienna, Austria by friends Thomas Rainer and Hannes Medwenitsch. Soon vocalist Sonja Kraushofer, a former classmate of Rainer, joined and the band sought a record contract. They released their first album, "Lieder die wie Wunden bluten" in 1997 on MOS Records in Lichtenstein, which became popular in the underground German Goth subculture. In 1999, L'âme Immortelle switched to Trisol Records. From 1998 through 2001, L'âme Immortelle released another LP yearly, each bringing the band greater popularity. In 2002, Medwenitsch left the band. Kraushofer and Rainer recruited Ashley Dayour as a guitarist and the re-formed L'âme Immortelle released a new single, "Tiefster Winter" in November 2002. In 2003, L'âme Immortelle released "Als die Liebe starb", as well as "Seelensturm", a collection of re-issued and re-mixed early material.

In 2004, the band switched labels again, this time to major label Supersonic, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The first issue following the switch was a collaboration with OOMPH! on the non-album single "Brennende Liebe" (released as OOMPH! feat. L'âme Immortelle); they also appeared in the video. Following that, L'âme Immortelle released a new album, "Gezeiten", which includes some of their most popular songs like "5 Jahre", "Stumme Schreie" and "Fallen Angel". A significant change in L'âme Immortelle's style is evident now that the band is on a major label; notably the electronic instrumentation of earlier work was less prominent in "Gezeiten".

Their latest album "Auf deinen Schwingen" has been released on August 2006 along with "Phönix" single. The record also includes songs like "Wohin" which contains text from another famous LAI song called "Aus den Ruinen", and "Nur Du" — a song which totally differs from older L'âme Immortelle work. The music video for this song is a cartoon, an unusual thing for the band.

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Banish
L'Âme Immortelle Lyrics

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Overshadowing the beauty
The sun and light of day
Standing guard to solitude
Keeping life away

Ghosts who cloud my senses
Embrace the night and sway
Leaving nothing but a wasteland

Of my soul back to decay

To those demons of the past
You are forsaken
And the buried spells I cast
Shall not awaken

Too long I've been haunted
And lost without control
Give me back my freedom
And all the days you stole

Obey my will demon
Banished you shall be
As far behind illusions
There's so much more to see

To the lies you said, the tears I shed
And all the songs I bled

I sing these lines to banish you
To banish you

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to the song "Banish" by L'Âme Immortelle explore the themes of overcoming inner demons and reclaiming freedom from past traumas. The lyrics describe the dark forces that overshadow the beauty of life and keep the singer isolated from the world around them. The ghosts of the past cloud their senses and lead them towards a wasteland of decay. However, the singer is determined to banish these demons and take back control of their life.

In the second verse, the singer addresses the demons directly, proclaiming that they are forsaken and their buried spells cannot be reawakened. The lyrics convey a sense of anger and frustration towards these past traumas that have haunted the singer for too long. The chorus represents the singer's determination to overcome these obstacles and find freedom again.

Line by Line Meaning

Overshadowing the beauty
Something is blocking the goodness in life

The sun and light of day
Things that make life good

Standing guard to solitude
Alone with one's negative thoughts

Keeping life away
Not allowing oneself to enjoy life

Ghosts who cloud my senses
Memories that disturb me

Embrace the night and sway
The negative past impacts the present

Leaving nothing but a wasteland
The impact of the negative past is devastating

Of my soul back to decay
The past is eating away at me

To those demons of the past
The negative experiences of the past

You are forsaken
I am rejecting you

And the buried spells I cast
I have tried to forget these experiences