L’Âme Immortelle (French: immortal soul) is Austrian gothic rock/electronic band. Bands main music characteristics are club-friendly danceable notes, melancholy or deep lyrics in German on English language. L’Âme Immortelle is formed in 1996 by Thomas Rainer and Hannes Medwnitsch and soon after that Sonja Kraushofer, vocalist and classmates of Rainer, joined the band. Their first album, “Lieder die wie Wunden bluten” which became very popular in German Goth subculture was released in 1997 for MOS Records. But still, the most important year in the story of this very interesting band is 2004 when L’Âme Immortelle signed for BMG/GUN and cooperated with Oomph! In song “Brennende Liebe”. This songs was followed by “5 Jahre” which with its combination of Goth Rock and electronic elements conquered fans of Gothic sound all over Europe and opened VIVA and MTV doors to the band. First video that was shown on channels of the most popular European and worldwide music programs was “Stumme Schreie”, single that followed “5 Jahre”. Recently, very successful album “Gezeiten” is succeed by “Auf Deinen Scwingen” which like “Gezeiten”, without compromises and any deprivation of objectively proves that L’Âme Immortelle is bright star on the gothic/electronic music sky.

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