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
Lilith's Child
Theatres Des Vampires Lyrics
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Under a fullmoon,rites of black masses
The purity of the sin will show out
When the Antichrist's Advent will be near
The mark of the Beast will be imprinted on us
Everyone will become its children in his kingdom of darkness
He will hammer the thorns of the crown in the skull of Christ
Before falling in the dominion of Lilith's child
Caput mortum, signo Lilitu, impereti tibi! Sanguis vita! Sigillum Lilitu!
In nomine mater nostri Lilitu regina immortalis humana nocturna!
The wolves celebrate your birth,rise from Hell,rise!
Slaughter of Christians,snatch their hearts!
Burn their bodies on the crosses!
Sodomize their brides!Impale the priests holocaust!Holocaust!
"Comme les anges à l'oeil fauve,
Je reviendrai dans ton alcôve
Et vers toi glisserai sans bruit
Avec les ombres de la nuit;
Et je te donnerai
Des baisers froids comme la lune
Et des caresses de serpent
Autour d'une fosse rampant."
You are the Lilith child born by a sacrifice
Under a fullmoon your revenge will be completed!
The lyrics to Theatres Des Vampires's song Lilith's Child refer to the birth of a child born through sacrifice, which marks the advent of the Antichrist. The child is said to be born under the full moon and as a result of black masses. The singer indicates that this child is the "Lilith child" and will eventually reign over a kingdom of darkness. The mark of the beast will be imprinted on everyone to signify their status as children of the Antichrist in this kingdom of darkness.
Furthermore, the lyrics suggest that the child's reign will include the slaughter of Christians and the desecration of Christian symbols. Sacrilegious acts such as sodomizing brides and impaling priests are mentioned. The lyrics also include a French poem titled "Le Vampire" by Charles Baudelaire, which describes the singer's return as a vampire to his lover's chambers to give her cold kisses like the moon and the caresses of a serpent.
The song's message is one of rebellion against Christianity and the glorification of Satan and the Antichrist. The lyrics are graphic and depict horrific acts as a means of shocking the listener and emphasizing the power that the Lilith child will hold over the Christian world.
Line by Line Meaning
You are the Lilith child born by a sacrifice
You are the offspring of Lilith, conceived by the spilling of a life in her name
Under a fullmoon,rites of black masses
Your conception took place under a full moon when black rituals and ceremonies were held
The purity of the sin will show out
The true nature of the sin committed to conceive you will ultimately reveal itself
When the Antichrist's Advent will be near
Your true purpose will be fulfilled when the Antichrist returns to reign
The mark of the Beast will be imprinted on us
We will bear the mark of the Beast as we become its subjects in its kingdom of darkness
Everyone will become its children in his kingdom of darkness
All will become subject to the Antichrist in his realm of darkness
He will hammer the thorns of the crown in the skull of Christ
The Antichrist will defeat Christ and wield his power over us
And the blood of God will come again and for the last time spilled
The blood of God will be spilled once more, but this time it will be the last
Before falling in the dominion of Lilith's child
Before being completely overtaken by your power and influence, Lilith's child
Caput mortum, signo Lilitu, impereti tibi! Sanguis vita! Sigillum Lilitu!
Dead head, sign of Lilith, I command you! Blood is life! Seal of Lilith!
In nomine mater nostri Lilitu regina immortalis humana nocturna!
In the name of our mother Lilith, immortal queen of the night!
The wolves celebrate your birth,rise from Hell,rise!
Wolves, creatures of the night, celebrate your coming, rise up from Hell!
Slaughter of Christians,snatch their hearts!
Christians will be killed and their hearts taken as a sacrifice to Lilith's child
Burn their bodies on the crosses!
Their bodies will be burned on the very symbol of their faith
Sodomize their brides!Impale the priests holocaust!Holocaust!
Their wives will be violated and their religious leaders will be impaled in a massacre
Comme les anges à l'oeil fauve, Je reviendrai dans ton alcôve Et vers toi glisserai sans bruit Avec les ombres de la nuit; Et je te donnerai Des baisers froids comme la lune Et des caresses de serpent Autour d'une fosse rampant.
Like angels with burning eyes, I will return to your chamber and silently slip in with the shadows of the night; and I will give you kisses as cold as the moon and serpent-like caresses as we slither around an open grave.
Under a fullmoon your revenge will be completed!
Your ultimate vengeance will be realized under the light of a full moon.
Contributed by Eva A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Cadaverous Len
this shit deserves so much more... what a pity, it's masterpiece for me
NCD EDITS
Glad there are still people with good tastes out there!
Jacob Simpson
great song great album
JUAN CARLOS MENDEZ VASQUEZ
me encanta!!!!!
Human Nature
I love this!
RICARDO CABRERA
Great band
Tonny Varela
great !
Silver G
Who is the girl with red hair? She's not Sonya...