There are at least 2 bands known as Élan Vital:

1. A metalcore band started by Dakota Alvarez of Hollow Front.

2. A band formed in 2015 at artist-run creative community None Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of Renee Barrance, Danny Brady and Nikolai Sim. Their sound takes contemporary European cold-wave synth-pop dance music layered on analogue drum machines, then blends in the warm psychedelic organ sounds of 1960s garage rock. Distorted, overdriven bass guitar adds a further element of chaos into the mix.

Their debut album Shadow Self was released in 2017 on Dunedin label Fishrider Records, and is currently available on bandcamp. The expression Élan Vital describes the vital force or impulse of life. The music on “Shadow Self” represents that life impulse in an ambiguous zone between machine and human worlds. A dense claustrophobic swirl of dark dance-tempo synth-pop blooms from gloomy cold industrial dance music with vocoder vocals into uplifting melodic dream-pop catharsis about memory, longing, and obsession. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.