History Music / Blutengel

* EvilIsSexy: In-universe, as an underlying theme in most songs mentioned here.

-->--'''Blutengel''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MssC4E0EYR0 I Will Follow]]"

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} German]] ElectronicMusic band with lyrics revolving around vampires. "Blut" is German for blood, "engel" for angel. Several songs refers to vampires by euphemisms such as "Angel of the night."

Sadly, has very little to do with [[Literature/BloodAngels vampire space marines]].

* AmbiguousSituation: The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfZvpMPj2s The Solitary Angel]]" is about a saviour who is "not from heaven sent" -- which means it could be a secular force or a spiritual force other then the god of Christianity. This character could be a powerful human, since "angel" is a common metaphor for generic benevolence. The character could also be a powerful vampire, since most of the songs from the same band are about vampires and they routinely use "angel" as a euphemism for "vampire" or "lover." And of course, it could also be referring to an angel in the literal religious sense -- either one that simply works on its own accord, or a fallen one. So, what trope or tropes is this?
** If he's a human, then it's BigGood with a dash of ForHappiness and OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions.
** If he's a vampire, then it's a DarkIsNotEvil kind of CrystalDragonJesus.
** If he's the devil or the AntiChrist, then it's plain and simply SatanIsGood.
*** Or possibly a case of AntiAntiChrist.
*** Or he's [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 The Emperor]].

* CreatingLifeIsBad: The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfex0mTSwQ The Oxidising Angel]]" twists the Literature/{{Frankenstein}} myth a bit. The created woman is exquisitely beautiful, and unlike Frankenstein her creator doesn't abandon her. However, she has a mind without having a soul, and this is utterly traumatic for her for unknown reasons to the creator as he is selfishly in love with her, refuse her plea to kill her. And thus she ended up killing him instead. The dark irony... and if there were a video it would be much more dark.
* DestructiveRomance: Several songs is strong with this trope, including "The Oxidising Angel" and "Black Wedding."

* EgocentricallyReligious: Many of the lyrics present the vampires as abusive and murderous. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WwF_bVhZU Save Our Souls]]," they finally start worrying about how bad their behavior is... For themselves. They still care nothing for their victims, praying only for their own souls.

* ForHappiness: "The Solitary Angel" is this. Or maybe not. Who knows what the lyric ''really'' means.
* GodIsFlawed: In the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUf0tiM9ThA No God]]," God's biggest flaw is that he doesn't exist: "''There's a god in your life, / But he is not what you need. / He can't hear you when you call. / He can't help you when you cry. / [...] / Wake up and face reality, realize there is no god. / Wake up open your eyes, / No paradise on the other side!''"
** One of the classic philosophical arguments for why God exists is that God is perfect. If God doesn't exist, then he wouldn't be perfect. Thus, God exists. This song turns this argument upside down.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Can be interpreted into many of their songs, for example "The Oxidising Angel."
* LyricalDissonance: "The Oxidizing Angel" is an up-tempo, utterly danceable song about a necromancer who resurrects his dead lover. The resurrected lover promptly kills him and dies again because she has no soul.

* NotAlwaysEvil: Several songs run on this theme, with the cool vampires inviting the humans to hang out with them and maybe becoming immortal themselves.

* PropertyOfLove: A main theme in songs such as "I Will Follow." See page quote.

* RomanticizedAbuse: Several of the songs go along these lines -- often on a gender-neutral and structural level, talking about the lifestyles of vampires in general rather then about the actions of individual vampires.

* SongStyleShift: Seelenschmerz starts off as a mid-paced ethereal, but after a distinctive several snare drum hits in the middle of the song, ups the tempo significantly to turn into a electropop dance beat.

* WasActuallyFriendly: Several songs run on this theme, with the cool vampires inviting the humans to hang out with them and maybe becoming immortal themselves.

->And we're running through the night\\

->''I'm addicted to your love\\
I'm addicted to this game\\
You give me pleasures give me pain\\
You're the only one I need\\
\\
You're the master I'm your slave\\
We can reach eternity\\
Please don't ever let me go\\
You know I'm your property\\
\\
And we're running through the night\\

->'''Blutengel''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MssC4E0EYR0 I Will Follow]]''

Sadly, has very little to do with [[BloodAngels vampire space marines]].

* BrokenBird / TheWoobie: The subject of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjNPJ0aYDM Broken Girl]]."

* {{Motif}}: Apart from vampire-related things like the night, ice and winter feature in many of their songs, such as "World of Ice,]]" "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5jNjUqYJX4 Winter of My Life,]]" and "Soul of Ice."

* {{Motif}}: Apart from vampire-related things like the night, ice and winter feature in many of their songs, such as "World Of Ice]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5jNjUqYJX4 Winter of My Life]]," and "Soul of Ice."

* SatanIsGood: In "Lucifer," this trope is invoked but heavily subverted since Lucifer's "goodness" relies on the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: With songs such as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0iS_LVLQU Bloody Pleasures]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdK96KNYd68 Children of the Night]]," and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hUiYejiiI Vampire Romance]]."

* FauxEmpoweringEntity: God, in the song "No God".
* ForHappiness: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfZvpMPj2s The Solitary Angel]]'' is this. Or maybe not. Who knows what the lyric ''really'' means.
* GodIsFlawed: In the song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUf0tiM9ThA No God]]'', God's biggest flaw is that he doesn't exist: "''There's a god in your life, / But he is not what you need. / He can't hear you when you call. / He can't help you when you cry. / [...] / Wake up and face reality, realize there is no god. / Wake up open your eyes, / No paradise on the other side!''"

* GriefSong: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmGZHA7MZTE No Eternity]]'', among others.
* {{Immortality}}: Living forever is highlighted as one of the best things about being a vampire in songs such as ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hUiYejiiI Vampire Romance]]''.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfex0mTSwQ The Oxidizing Angel]] begins on this theme.

* LoudnessWar: ''Seelenschmerz'' is thumbs down one of the worst offenders, [[http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=5240 as shown here]], averaging -4 dbfs, with some tracks going down to as little as -1 dbfs.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Can be interpreted into many of their songs, for example ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfex0mTSwQ The Oxidising Angel]]''.

* MaritalRapeLicense: ''Black Wedding'' can be seen this way.
* TheMasquerade: Referred to in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGwJdXFf0w Soul Of Ice]].
* {{Motif}}: Apart from vampire-related things like the night, ice and winter feature in many of their songs, such as ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZN_kTcmZE World Of Ice]]'', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5jNjUqYJX4 Winter Of My Life]]'', and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGwJdXFf0w Soul Of Ice]]''.
* NaughtyNuns: The "Moments of Our Lives" DVD has two dancers dressed as nuns during the performance of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIuRhn0n80 Lucifer]]''. They eventually strip down to rather sexually charged outfits.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Videos such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1G-9WUgptY Reich mir die Hand]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: With songs such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0iS_LVLQU Bloody Pleasures]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdK96KNYd68 Children of the night]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hUiYejiiI Vampire]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4jT5nLhXT8 Romance]].
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCjWXJh47A Resurrection]]''.
* PropertyOfLove: A main theme in songs such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MssC4E0EYR0 I Will Follow]]. See page quote.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: A core feature of songs such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAVRAD_c-Y Lucifer]].
* RomanticizedAbuse: Several of the songs go along these lines - often on a gender-neutral and structural level, talking about the lifestyles of vampires in general rather then about the actions of individual vampires.
* SatanIsGood: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAVRAD_c-Y Lucifer]], this trope is invoked but heavily subverted since Lucifer's "goodness" relies on the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Seen through the eyes of the victim, in the song Black Wedding.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAVRAD_c-Y Lucifer]] is about a young woman who has been harassed and pushed around and excluded and everything for years and now has found someone to help her to call down literal hellfire over mankind - assuming one takes the lyric literally, of course.

You're the onlyone I need\\

I'll follow you''

A German ElectronicMusic band with lyrics revolving around vampires. "Blut" is German for blood, "engel" for angel. Several songs refers to vampires by euphemisms such as "Angel of the night".

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* AfterTheEnd: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZN_kTcmZE World Of Ice]]''
* AmbiguousSituation: The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfZvpMPj2s The Solitary Angel]]'' is about a saviour who is "not from heaven sent" - which means it could be a secular force or a spirutal force other then the god of christianity. This character could be a powerful human, since "angel" is a common metaphor for generic benevolence. The character could also be a powerful vampire, since most of the songs from the same band are about vampires and they routinely use "angel" as a euphemism for "vampire" or "lover". And of course, it could also be referring to an angel in the literal religious sense - either one that simply works on its own accord, or a fallen one. So, what trope or tropes is this?

*** Or he's [[{{Warhammer 40000}} The Emperor]].
* ArrangedMarriage: The most likely background of the scenes in the song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WeCXl2Gnw Black Wedding]]''
* BrokenBird / TheWoobie: The subject of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQnvzMO_ko Broken Girl]]''.
* CreatingLifeIsBad: The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfex0mTSwQ The Oxidizing Angel]]'' twists the Frankenstein myth a bit. The created woman is exquisitely beautiful, and unlike Frankenstein her creator doesn't abandon her. However, she has a mind without having a soul, and this is utterly traumatic for her for unknown reasons to the creator as he is selfishly in love with her, refuse her plea to kill her. And thus she ended up killing him instead. The dark irony .....and if there were a video it would be much more dark.
* DestructiveRomance: Several songs is strong with this trope, including ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfex0mTSwQ The Oxidising Angel]]'' and ''Black Wedding''.

* DyingAlone: The theme of the song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saNoXJn_Jtc I'm Dying Alone]]''.
* EgocentricallyReligious: Many of the lyrics present the vampires as abusive and murderous. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WwF_bVhZU Save Our Souls]], they finally start worrying about how bad their behavior is... For themselves. They still care nothing for their victims, praying only for their own souls.

But still we pray, for someone to save our souls

* FanFlattering: The song Angels Of The Dark has the following to say directly to the listener: ''You're so much better and you're so different / you don't believe in what they do / I know you are one of us.''

* AmbiguousSituation: The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfZvpMPj2s The Solitary Angel]]'' is about a saviour who is "not from heaven sent" - which means it could be a secular force or a spirutal force other then the god of christianity. This character could be a powerful human, since "angel" is a common metaphor for generic benevolence. The character could also be a powerful vampire, since most of the songs from the same band are about vampires and they routinely use "angel" as a euphemism for "vampire" or "lover". And of course, it could also be referring to an angel in the literal religious sense - either one that simply works on it's own accord, or a fallen one. So, what trope or tropes is this?

* EgocentricallyReligious: Many of the lyrics present the vampires as abusive and murderous. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WwF_bVhZU Save Our Souls]], they finally start worrying about how bad their behavior is... However, they still care nothing for their victims, praying only for their own souls.

* SatanIsGood: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAVRAD_c-Y Lucifer]], this trope is invoked but heavily subverted since Lucifer's "goodness" relies entirely on the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds CompleteMonster.

* AbusivelySexy Several of the songs go along these lines - often on a gender-neutral and structural level, talking about the lifestyles of vampires in general rather then about the actions of individual vampires.

A GothRock band with lyrics revolving around vampires. "Blut" is German for blood, "engel" for angel. Several songs refers to vampires by euphemisms such as "Angel of the night".

& NaughtyNuns: The "Moments of Our Lives" DVD has two dancers dressed as nuns during the performance of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIuRhn0n80 Lucifer]]''. They eventually strip down to rather sexually charged outfits.

* ForHappiness: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfZvpMPj2s The Solitary Angel]]'' is this. Or maybe not. Who knows what the lyric ''really'' means.

** [[EpilepticTrees Personally, I think it describes]] [[WarhammerFortyThousand the God-Emperor]]
*** Play the song in the background when you run Space Marines or Imperial Guard, and declare that they are actually singing it as they match into battle. :-)

* CompleteMonster: The Groom in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WeCXl2Gnw Black Wedding]]''. Also, if the line about "fire falling from the sky" is it be taken literally, then the protagonist of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAVRAD_c-Y Lucifer]]'' is one as well.