Группа появилась в 1994 году, ведомая Лордом Вампиром. Поначалу группа ориентировалась на Vampire Black Metal.
Лорду пришлось расстаться со многими неверными, покидавшими веселую вампирскую семейку один за другим и утрачивающими статус бессмертных.
В 1994 году вышла промо-запись "Nosferatu, Eine Simphonie Des Grauens". Запись получила много положительных откликов и была распродана в считанные дни.
Далее Лорд заключает контракт с лейблом GARDEN OF GRIEF, на котором в 1995 году выходит первый полноформатник "Vampyrisme, necrophilie,necrosadisme, necrophagie".
И вот в процессе записи начинаются побеги из группы, и к моменту выхода альбома Лорд Вампир остается в одиночестве. Но Лорд не отчаивается и набирает новых людей... то есть вампиров...
Год 1999 году группа сменяет лейбл на Alkaid Records и издает второй альбом "The Vampire Chronicles", вышедший в 2000 г. К группе примыкает Тim Fraser (Christian Death).
В 2000 году было подписано соглашение с лейблом Blackend (являющимся сублейблом Plastic Head, Великобритания). В 2001 году вышел альбом "Bloody Lunatic Asylum", в честь чего состоялась буйная вампирская оргия. Недолго заставил себя ждать следующий релиз "Iubilaeum Anno Dracula", приуроченный к юбилею Графа Дракулы, идейного вдохновителя Лорда Вампира.
В 2002 году выходит "Suicide Vampire", в который входит песня «Queen of the Damned», написанная по одноименному роману Энн Райс. После небольшого перерыва, разбавленного концертами по всей Европе, группа выпускает шестой альбом “Nightbreed of Macabria”, новый альбом был очень красивым по своему звучанию - смесь готичной музыки и вокала Лорда и Скарлет.
После выхода “Nightbreed of Macabria» Лорд решает покинуть группу и заняться сольным творчеством... И уже меньше чем через год выходит его сольный альбом Lord Vampyr “De Vampiryca Filosophia”.
Тем временем группа взялась за запись своего нового детища, и уже в ноябре 2005 года выходит альбом «Pleasure And Pain». После ухода Лорда группа полностью сменила стиль... Исчезли элементы Блэка, Theatres des Vampires начали играть вампирский horror gothic metal с женским вокалом. Все тексты песен написала Скарлетт. Кроме родных участников, в записи приняли участие такие музыканты, как: Flegias (Necrodeath), Dhiloz (Ancient), Nicholas (Ensoph) и Giampaolo (Stormlord). Ремикс на песню Pleasure And Pain оформил Bruno Kramm (Das Ich)
Дискография:
1994 - Nosferatu Eine Sinphonie des Grauens
1996 - Vampyrisme, necrophilie, necrosadisme, necrophagie
1999 - The Vampire Chronicles
2001 - Bloody Lunatic Asylum
2001 - Iubilaeum Anno Dracula - MCD
2002 - Suicide Vampire
2003 - Bootleg - 1993-2003 The (un)official history
2003 - Vampyrisme
2004 - Blackend Colletion
2004 - Nightbreed of Macabria
2005 – Pleasure And Pain
2006 - The Addiction Tour DVD
2007 - Desire of Damnation
2008 - Anima Noir
2011 - Moonlight Waltz
Проекты:
Lord Vampyr:
2005 -De Vampirica Filosophia
Shadowsreign - Bloodcity
Cain - Triumvira
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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.
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