THEATRES DES VAMPIRES

Melodic Black Metal (early), Gothic Metal (later) band from Italy.
The band started as a melodic black metal band, with vampire-themed lyrics, but on the second and the third album, they added more melodic/gothic elements to their music, becoming and extreme gothic metal band with their Suicide Vampire album. On the next two albums, Nightbreed Of Macabria and Pleasure And Pain they dropped almost all their extreme metal influences shifting to gothic metal/death rock. Three years later, on Anima Noir they started to play industrial / electronic gothic metal, highly influenced by EBM, darkwave, deathrock and industrial.
Theatres Des Vampires was founded as Sepolcrum in 1988. They changed name after the third demo to VII Arcano. After Gather My Blood Forever was released in 1994, the band split, with Alexander Nunziati and Robert Cufaro forming Theatres des Vampires, and the rest of the band remaining VII Arcano, but changing their style to thrash metal.

So there are no founding members left in the band since Lord Vampyr (Alessandro Nunziati) and Count Morgoth (Roberto Cufaro) left the band.

"Theatres Des Vampires" means "Theater Of Vampires" in French.