Theatres des Vampires is a metal band from Rome, Italy, founded in 1994 by … Read Full Bio ↴Theatres des Vampires is a metal band from Rome, Italy, founded in 1994 by Alessandro "Lord Vampyr" Nunziati. They are mostly noted for the predominant theme of vampirism within their lyrics. The original genre of the band was melodic black metal, they gradually changed their style and evolved into gothic metal.

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

Forever in Death
Theatres Des Vampires Lyrics

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A mournful wind
A gloomy sign
For my eternal sleep
Under the ground
Under the life
The darkest symphony

Unholy tears

Lay down with me
Frozen inside my heart
One more time
Just one more time
The past is dim and far...

An awful dream
Carved in my soul

Forever and ever
Death plays with me
Together forever
She plays with me

(They) don´t understand
Her poisoned touch
A kiss of blood and death
Her pale white skin
A frozen scream
That wakes my wrath again

An awful dream
Carved in my soul

Forever and ever
Death plays with me
Together forever
She plays with me

Forever in death... with me
I reborn again from life
From flesh again... I rise
I reborn again. I rise again

Forever and ever
Death plays with me

Together forever
She plays with me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Forever in Death by Theatres Des Vampires describe the eternal sleep of the singer under the ground with a sad melody playing. The unholy tears of the singer are frozen inside the singer's heart as the symphony grows darker. The singer longs for one more kiss from death, as the past feels far away, and the dream feels like an awful memory carved in their soul.

Death plays with the singer forever and ever, and they are together forever. Others do not understand the singer's attraction to death, who they describe as having a poisoned touch and a kiss of blood and death. Her pale white skin and frozen scream awake the singer's wrath in the poem. The poem ends with the singer being reborn from life and rising once again from flesh as death plays with them forever.

In brief, the poem is about an individual's infatuation with death, the desire to be with death forever and struggle with being reborn into life again from flesh. The poem portrays an attitude of someone who has lost interest in life and finds solace in the darkness of death.

Line by Line Meaning

A mournful wind
A sad breeze blowing by

A gloomy sign
A bleak omen of things to come

For my eternal sleep
Referring to their upcoming death

Under the ground
Being buried after death

Under the life
Beneath the living

The darkest symphony
Their death as a dark and tragic song

Unholy tears
Crying due to their impending death

Lay down with me
Asking someone to join them in death

Frozen inside my heart
Emotionally numb to the idea of dying

One more time
One last time before their death

Just one more time
One final request before their death