L'âme Immortelle

L'Âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces goth and aggrotech music. Many of L'Âme Immortelle's songs feature club

L'Âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces goth and aggrotech music. Many of L'Âme Immortelle's songs feature club-friendly danceable beats, melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band's electrogoth roots into the Neue Deutsche Härte (new German hardness) genre.

L'Âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Austria by friends Thomas Rainer and Hannes Medwenitsch. Soon vocalist Sonja Kraushofer, a former classmate of Rainer, joined and the band sought a record contract. They released their first album, Lieder die wie Wunden bluten in 1997 on MOS Records in Liechtenstein, which became popular in the underground German Goth subculture. In 1999, L'Âme Immortelle switched to Trisol Records. From 1998 through 2001, L'Âme Immortelle released another LP yearly, each bringing the band greater popularity. In 2002, Medwenitsch left the band. Kraushofer and Rainer recruited Ashley Dayour as a guitarist and the re-formed L'Âme Immortelle released a new single, Tiefster Winter in November 2002. In 2003, L'Âme Immortelle released Als die Liebe starb, as well as Seelensturm, a collection of re-issued and re-mixed early material.