The band's members expressed a fascination with vampires and anything connected to them, earning themselves and their music the title "vampiric metal" from their contemporaries. The band created a coherent image of vampirism in their stage performance and within the lyrical themes and atmospheres of their music, which contributed heavily to the gaining of their fan-base.
During their career, the band was first primarily influenced by symphonic black metal, but later tended to include differing influences, including: classicalmusic, opera, darkwave, deathrock, gothic rock and several electro-industrial sub-genres. Throughout this stylistic deviation, a few characteristics of the band's music have remained consistent; melancholic atmospheres and lyrics, vocal styles of akin to gothic metal, and their vampiric image.
The band has produced ten albums in ten years with the English label Plastic Head, and has gained more recognition within the metal scene in Europe, South America and Russia, partially due to the band's participation in various festivals around the world. These include: Vampyria III in London in 1999, Gods of Metal in Italy in 2000, Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig in 2003 and in 2006, Gotham in London in 2004, Female Voices Festival in Wieze, Belgium in 2006.
In 2003, the band toured with Christian Death throughout Europe, and recorded an album with Valor of Christian Death and Gian Pyres of Cradle of Filth as special guests.
The band's shows have always seen a reasonable level of attendance, and have become more dramatic over the band's career, incorporating fireworks and "out of line" appearances by Scarlet.
Since 2004, Sonya Scarlet has remained the solo vocalist and front of the band, replacing her previous role as backing vocals.
Scarlet sometimes cuts herself with razors at performances, freely letting fans drink her blood, promising them the gift of immortality. In 2005 several English clubs forbade her performing the display of bloodletting, because it violates English laws against the incitement to commit suicide.
On 28 November 2005, Aural Music released the album Pleasure and Pain. Distributors throughout Europe bought the album and it was published with permission in Europe, South America, the USA, Russia, and Japan.
On 19 March 2007, they released their album Desire of Damnation. Desire of Damnation is a double CD, with live songs from The Addiction tour 2006 and some new studio songs and remixes.
Guitarist Robert "Morgoth" left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Stephan Benfante.
On 2 May 2008, they released their 8th studio album Anima Noir. With this album their sound evolves once again, taking the route of electronic/industrial gothic metal while still retaining vampiric lyrics.
In November, 2008, Theatres des Vampires announced that they would go on a temporary hiatus due to both personal and health related issued of vocalist Sonya Scarlet.
On 14 January 2011 Aural Music released the album Moonlight Waltz, their ninth studio album. A music video for the song "Carmilla" was filmed on August 28 and 29, directed by David Bracci, who worked on most of Dario Argento's films in the past decade, and has also directed the "Lilith Mater Inferorum" music video.
The name "Théâtre des Vampires" was inspired by a fictional location created by Gothic fantasy writer Anne Rice of the same name. Rice's Théâtre des Vampires is a Parisian theater, in which vampires pretend to be mortal actors, their performances consisting of the feeding on mortals disguised as part of a play and staged in front of human audiences. The location is mentioned in several of Rice's books, including Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.
Official site: http://www.theatres-des-vampires.net
'Til the Last Drop of Blood
Theatres Des Vampires Lyrics
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A Satanic night of fullmoon
She meets pure essence of evil
Masquerade as an angel of light
She becomes Bride of Darkness
Licks the burning crossbleeding mouth
"I want to drink from you" "You can drink from me"
If you want to enjoy.. this night
Let me suck from your neck
The wolves will dance around you
Your orgasm in the Pentacle!!
Tilt the last drop of blood
The song 'Til the Last Drop of Blood' by Theatres Des Vampires is a dark and sinister depiction of a Satanic night of fullmoon where the singer is seeking to embrace evil in its pure essence. The lyrics portray the singer as someone desirous of the blood of the other person and referring to themselves as an angel of light, masquerading their true identity. As the song progresses, the singer becomes a Bride of Darkness and licks the burning crossbleeding mouth to drink the blood of the other person.
The song is a metaphor for seduction and the embrace of one's own primal desires. The singer represents the darker side of human nature that is often kept hidden from others. The reference to the wolves dancing around the person is an allusion to the role of predators in the natural world. The line "Your orgasm in the Pentacle!" transforms the narrative into a sexual one, emphasizing the pleasure derived from embracing one's dark side.
Ultimately, the song's dark imagery and metaphorical representation of embrace of one's primal desires make it a masterpiece of the horror genre. The lyrics are poetic and haunting, leaving the listener unnerved yet captivated.
Line by Line Meaning
I want to drink your blood this night
I desire to drink your blood on this particular night.
A Satanic night of fullmoon
This is a night of evil that is coinciding with a full moon.
She meets pure essence of evil
She encounters the most concentrated form of malevolence.
Masquerade as an angel of light
She disguises herself as a beneficent figure to deceive others.
She becomes Bride of Darkness
She becomes wedded to the darkness and evilness that it embodies.
Licks the burning crossbleeding mouth
She licks her lips that are bleeding from kissing the burning cross.
"I want to drink from you" "You can drink from me"
"I want to consume your blood" "You may also consume mine."
Til the last drop of blood
Until we have completely drained each other of our blood.
If you want to enjoy.. this night
If you wish to indulge in this night's activity.
Let me suck from your neck
Please allow me to suck your blood from your neck.
The wolves will dance around you
The wolves will encircle you as you become aroused.
Your orgasm in the Pentacle!!
You will have an orgasm while standing in a pentagram.
Contributed by Jayce W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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