Thomas Rainer (musician)

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Thomas Rainer live with L'Âme Immortelle at the Blackfield Festival, 2015

Thomas Rainer (born February 8, 1979 ) is an Austrian musician. He became known with the bands L'Âme Immortelle (since 1996) and Nachtmahr (since 2007).

Life

Thomas Rainer works as a musician, DJ and producer . He lives near Vienna in Guntramsdorf . As a child he received music lessons, including piano for five years and electric bass for three years. As a teenager he played in a death metal band .

L'Âme Immortelle

see main article: L'Âme Immortelle

In 1996 Thomas Rainer and Hannes Medwentisch founded the band L'Âme Immortelle (French for “the immortal soul”), often abbreviated as LAI. She has existed for more than 20 years and has released numerous albums.

Since 2002, after co-founder Medwentisch left, Thomas Rainer and lead singer Sonja Kraushofer have continued as a duo. Rainer composes, sings and writes the lyrics for the electro band. In the early works of the band in particular, Rainer processed personal experiences, for example with the album Als die Liebe died : "The lyrics, and thus the concept of the album, trace my ordeal after a failed relationship."

The LAI debut album "Songs that bleed like wounds" was already successful. This was followed by numerous chart placements with their albums such as Then I have lived for free (48th place in Germany) or Gezeiten (16th place in Germany). The DVD + CD Disharmony  , released in 2003,  reached number nine in the German music DVD charts. The musician had the greatest chart success with Brennende Liebe , a joint single by L'Âme Immortelle and Oomph! . She stayed in the German single charts for ten weeks and reached number six.

Infirmity

In 2000 Rainer released the album Gesellschaft: Mord together with Hans-Joachim Sobczak under the name Siechtum . In the following year two more albums of the project followed: Cross: X: Feuer and Diagnose: Zeit . After that it was quiet about the project. It wasn't until a good 15 years later that a new publication ended the creative break. At the beginning of October 2015, Siechtum's double CD, limited to 999 copies, will be released : Wende . In addition, Thomas Rainer performed live with Siechtum on May 14, 2016 at the Leipzig Wave-Gotik-Treffen in the old district office. The duo wrote on their Facebook page: "This may be your last and only chance to see us live, so don't miss out."

Nightmare

see main article: Nachtmahr

Thomas Rainer with Nachtmahr, 2014

Thomas Rainer has been  traveling solo with the techno project  Nachtmahr since 2007 . The first publication Kunst ist Krieg was released in 2007 by Trisol (where all of his other bands are also under contract). The title also indicates the direction in which Thomas Rainer presents the band: Nachtmahr positions himself in the military with costumes, artwork and texts . Thomas Rainer is repeatedly criticized for this. He flirted with fascist symbolism, so the allegation. Rainer rejects this and emphasizes that the project is in no way political. In this regard, he emphasizes that these are military and not fascist images:

"I would like to elaborate on something: it's not fascist imagery, it's militaristic. There's a big difference. "

- Thomas Rainer : Interview for idieyoudie.com . 2015

Thomas Rainer also refers to the BDSM scene, which is about dominance and power, which uniforms symbolize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Âme Immortelle - The Official Website. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Interview: L'Âme Immortelle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 12, 2006 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.the-gothicworld.de
  3. ↑ Interview for the-gothicworld.de , 2003
  4. ↑ L'Âme Immortelle - The Official Website. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Oomph! - Burning Love. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  6. ^ Infirmity: [Times: Wende] (Industrial). In: Amboss-Mag.de. Retrieved August 24, 2017 (American English).
  7. ↑ Infirmity live at WGT. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Infirmity. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b An interview with Thomas Rainer of Nachtmahr. Retrieved August 24, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MechanicMind. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1979