2003-06/07 some parking lot (Paris, France) someone covered Oasis’ “Wonderwall” 2003-06/07 fest in a park (Paris, France) where Damien’s band played. both shows were the same day. 2004-spring(between February and May) some battle of the bands (???, NJ) Mutiny most likely one of these two shows: 2004-04-09 Hamilton Street Cafe & Stage (Bound Brook, NJ) …
Interview sent by Alexander Julien on ??? Answered on ??? Edited on ??? Published on August 30, 2013 Vision Éternel Interview for Abridged Pause Blog Hello Alex. Thank you for taking the time to answer these few questions. First of all what has been happening with Vision Éternel since you released “The Last Great Torch …
After releasing the “Travels” boxset, I really needed promotion. Almost a week had past and I had only sold one copy. I decided to do a quick video showing off the boxset and using it to email the Abridged Pause subscribers. At first we tried using Rain’s camera but the quality came out grainy. So …
My idea for “How Can They Intend to Heal” came in the summer of 2009. By this time blogs were sprouting everywhere, especially in the hardcore community. I had previously created, operated and documented the Culture and Bird of Ill Omen Myspaces, in 2007, which at the time I had received a lot of help …
When I quit my job at Bell on July 11th 2013, my girlfriend Rain pushed me to take some time to focus on music again. My budget was exhausted so I wasn’t really able to focus on a new album right away. I had been trying for the last year to purchase the left over …
In September 2011 I was looking for new labels to work with after Quartier23 had ruined a couple of other deals. Abandonment Records wanted to use an unreleased song on a compilation to be called “Welcome to Our Decayed Factory”. At the time I had some demos recorded that I didn’t know what to do …
history of the name and early pictures or original location started building my bar in january of 2013, because my cousin had a nice setup at his parents place. right after I got dumped i went and bought bottles. baptized with name on March 12th 2013 after going to get the sign with liz and …
These were all planned outputs by one of my record labels, but for various reasons they never came out. Some were released on other record labels, some were just never released at all. Perhaps there were a few more, but that’s all I can remember for now. Mortification Records Vision Lunar – Phase One: Marche …
Bitter Reviews was going to be a website/blog that focused on writing cocktail bitters reviews. During the cocktail revival in the early 2010’s, dozens of blogs surfaced to write about bourbon, whisky, old distilleries. At first I had the idea to start one writing reviews of rye whiskeys but because Quebec had only one American …
Back in 2009 and 2010 box set there was a lot of talk about Vision Éternel releasing tapes of the EPs. This was the same hype and with the same result, nothing. In December of 2012 I really wanted to release the Vision Éternel EPs on 7″ vinyls. Combine all four into a a boxset and release …
This compilation went right over my head (meaning that I wasn’t even asked about my song being on it). It was only while doing research in July 2013 that I came across a repost of this on The Sirens Sound blog. This was apparently compiled together by one Anatoly Brooks and aired as a radio show Rádio Etiópia …
It was a hell of a countdown. I had been isolating myself in my room for two days. Nourishment was reduced to the bare minimum and I was starting to reek of the need to bathe. I didn’t want that day to come. And I would have to face it alone because I had no …
I had forgotten how lonely this apartment was. Or maybe I had just gotten used to it after so many weeks of staying in. It took months to get used to the last place after she left. But somehow, everything came back fresh in the solitude of this environment. The filth on the walls brought …
“Lucid Dreaming in New Jersey” (original title “Lucid Dreaming”) was a film made by my friend Howard Change. He had begun filming it in the summer of 2010 and asked me to come down to New Jersey and act a small part in the film. During the weekend of July 30th 2010, I had planned …
To finish: MTL4, MTL5, MTL6. Also “early history of recordings” Mortified Studios was officially created in January of 2007. Although I had been recording music since August of 2003, I never considered my home recording equipment as a studio until January of 2007. The name of the studio comes from my record label at the …
The fourth Vision Éternel EP had come out on March 14th 2012, and I already had planned a few weeks before to film an introductory video to promote the album. I asked Jeremy Roux but it took a bit to set up a date to do it. At first we were going to film it at CEGEP …
“The Last Great Torch Song” is the fourth extended play by Vision Éternel. I’ve always been equally proud and regretful about the release of this EP because it was a highly bastardized, chopped up and glued back together type of release, yet it featured some of the best material that I have ever composed. It …
Created between January 9th and 15th of 2012, after working with U-Iliot Records and Klink Publishing. I first heard of a music publishing company in May of 2011 when working with Stephane Fania For the first week or so, I made the mistake of calling it “Abridged Pause Publishings” ISRCs first January 2012, had already …
In November of 2011, Pale Noir Records, who were going to release the Soufferance album “Memories of a City“, had asked me to submit a music video for a compilation DVD. I was so excited and on January 10th 2012 Jeremy and I went out for our first night of shooting for this music video. …
This was probably the best photo shoot that Jeremy and I ever did together. Unfortunately it was completely lost in the early months of 2012 due to a computer crash and neither I nor Jeremy had a backup of it. The images here are the only ones I had copies of from Facebook. taken on the …
This was always one of my favorite songs from the early days of Soufferance. Prior to the release of “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind”, it was always this song that I used to show to people. So I made a quicky video on October 11th 2011 with footage from a film called …
I wrote this about Laura Dolgy. I had fallen into the old routine already. I knew that it wouldn’t be long before I got like this again. I was detesting myself, and with reason. I was relentlessly single, and hating every moment of it. I could not bear the idea of being alone. Not after my codependence had …
On the afternoon of September 23rd, 2011, I told my best friend Jeremy that we needed to hang out that day, and to bring his camera because I was due for a new video and most of all a new interview. The evening started out with going to play pool at Boul Noir, where we …
About half a year after the CD release of “Bonjour Tristesse”, it was late July 2011, and I was desperately looking for new record labels to work with and release either upcoming material by Soufferance or re-issue the older material on new formats. I had been wanting to do this since 2007. My goal was that for …
Get FB conversations with Simon Talbot, Tony, Guy Gaffney, Janie De Jeu, Victor Berger, will help with dates My interest in playing metalcore goes back to 2004 and took a small peek in 2008 with Human Infect. But it wasn’t until I made some real contacts that I could start to focus on something serious. …
This photoshoot was our first at trying out film noir lighting techniques. We placed my jacket over the light source at different angles to attempt to get cool shades. We went to the Sailors’ Memorial Clock because it was a place we wanted to explore, but we didn’t get any closer than where we took …
I wrote this for Laura Dolgy I had just been fired, for the first time in my life, and it had been quite distressing. How could I have seen it coming. It was sneaky, distasteful and degrading. I was fired because my sense of humor was not approved by the fellow employees. Because I …
So I wrote this little poem in a half hour for Laura. It could have been better, and its pretty corny, but I want to remember it. I think but of your lips This tenderness I tonight kissed Tonight my dreams are blissed And all because of this A girl I will much miss Until …
During the post-production phases of “Bonjour Tristesse” I had been thinking of making a music video for the promotion of this release. I initially wanted two version; one full length version and a short version. The full length version would be the full seventeen minutes song, and would only be shared with close friends, and …
I really can’t find much to say about these two songs. Actually they’re not even songs, they’re ideas. And I think they are just as bad right now as I thought they were when I recorded them sometime in early 2011 (some date crawled up to April 4th 2011, but I have a feeling it …
I have always been a fan of 90’s emo and post-hardcore music. So when I met Simon Talbot in 2009 when he was playing in The Zyphoid Process (which later changed name to Great White North) we started talking about doing an emo side project together. It was mostly talk for a couple years but …
Last.fm Scrobbles 2010 September 22nd Soufferance, Vision — Soufferance Split Song 2010 October 1st Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 4th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 5th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 10th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Præcox 2010 October 21st Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Præcox 2010 October 23rd Soufferance, …
The purpose of this blog is to document everything I have crafted artistically over the years. I therefore added drawings that I did and that I somehow still have. I am a horrible drawer and so is my handwriting and I never claimed to be able to do anything serious with them. So why did …
This was the first Soufferance photoshoot ever. One cold day of March 4th, Laura and I met up with Jeremy Roux at Dunn’s on Peel, by Dorchester Square. After eating there, Laura headed back to my apartment (where upon coming back home, this was one of the two times ever that she “welcomed me home”). …
-Origin of the name (2008) “Lantern’s Awake” was a title with which I came up some time in early 2008, while I lived in the Ville Marie district of Montreal, at 2108 Bleury Street. I had no idea how the title would be used; either as a song title or an album title. I also …
While reproducing/remaking the whole second full-length album in February of 2011, I realized that two specific pieces I had composed were incredibly important and moving to me. They were the two pieces that showed the most my Swans influence. I knew the album wouldn’t be out for a while, so I decided to make a …
On February 5th 2011 I was struck with an epiphany to write about the hope of life. This was just quick notes in hope to develop it into a short story or lyrics. It was likely brought on by a temporary breakup or fight that I had with Laura Dolgy. The whole point to this …
needs re-write. here’s the transcipt Citadel Swamp started October 2010 Jan 26 immundus first parts jan 28 bass stuff feb 23 immundus second parts and first mix feb 26 immundus second mix feb 28 immundus third mix march 3rd immundus fourth mix https://www.facebook.com/messages/search/558622698?query=im Conversation started July 19, 2010 Alexandre Julien 7/19, 6:23pm Alexandre Julien hey …
On the early morning of my 23rd birthday, January 15th 2011, I received an email from Marco, head of Quartier23, about a compilation he was putting together, based on the seven luminaries. He wanted it out for March 23rd of 2011. He wanted the inclusion of Soufferance on it. My time limit was 5 minutes, …
On January 3rd 2011, Jeremy came over at my apartment on Henri-Bourassa to jam. We had intended on doing a photoshoot later that night for some Soufferance artwork for “Adieu Tristesse“, and so we went to Sault-au-Recollet to Ile-de-la-Visitation. But not before we played some guitar while Laura was on the bed working on school …
“Oh! Those Hosers Are From Canada, Eh?” was a blog that I created in December of 2010 in order to publish non hardcore music articles of Canadian bands that I wanted to write about. “How Can They Intend to Heal?” was solely dedicated to Canadian hardcore music and its genres, but I wanted to cover …
While Laura and I went to visit New Jersey for Thanksgiving, we hung out with Phil Altobelli (Darklink) and his girlfriend. What occurred that night was a long overdue jam of promising Vision Éternel material. Phil had supposedly been composing a solo for “Love within Narcosis” that was going to be recorded and used for …
On November 10th, 2010, I created a special edit of the songs with a short video. “The Full Moon: The Best of Vision Lunar” is a fifteen minute song created to represent the best moments of the Lunar catalog. I initially wanted to make a real music video for this, based out of film footage, …
Mike O’brien from Melankolia was putting together a Tribute to Burzum called “Forsvunnet Filosofem”. I decided that I would attempt to do a song from his later catalog, as they were already ambient pieces, and I could try to keep a similar mood in the Soufferance fashion. I was getting an operation the next morning, …
Interview sent by Marc on October 10, 2010 Answered in October 2010, with additional modification on November 1, 2010. Published on November 1, 2010 http://www.wtfmetalmusic.com/index.php/2010/11/01/entrevue-avec-virkelix-de-vision-lunar/ The three guys originally came over my apartment on either September 15 or 18, 2010. Marc Andrew Landles, Marc-André and another guy. We did a live interview that was recorded …
I have been known by various aliases throughout my musical years. Not many people tend to ask about it because a lot of people in general don’t like discussing it. But this is private and nothing can be hidden. Smit (1999) Smit was an alias that I used during the days of Les Rocker’s in …
Interview sent by Shane Hill on October 14, 2010 (just past midnight on the night of October 13-14) Answered on October 14, 2010 Published on October 14, 2010 http://www.theinarguable.com/2010/10/new-vision-eternel-song-and-video-up.html What are the origins of Vision Éternel? Vision Éternel formed in January 2007 almost by pure experimentation accident. I discovered the power of reverb in the …
Chapter 1: The Very Beginning (August 2006 to September 2006) Mortification Records was my first record label. Prior to its formation, I had self-released material by my other bands, The Slopin Fairy 7 and Throne of Mortality, without any record label affiliation. At the time, I was not aware of the freedom that one could …
Since February 2007, Vision Lunar had been going down. People were slowly forgetting about it, and even if I had always hoped to get a band going with it, it just never worked. But in the summer of 2010 I found some new Quebecois blog, WTF Metal Music, that posted something on Vision Lunar. I was …
I think it was in the summer of 2010 that I first talked to Bradly James Palko from Dedicated Records about the compilation he was putting together. VE hasn’t been part of many compilations, but that’s not due to lack of tracks but more of lack of willingness on my part to find those random …
This was my first real photoshoot and also my first video interview. I was in the middle of a revival publicity hype for Vision Éternel, and I was doing two interviews a week (for the short time that it lasted until I put an end to it). I was originally supposed to meet up with an …
A certain loneliness had settled in since the event had taken place last week. Things I never questioned before, and moments I had forgotten are now part of an hourly’s lapse. It even seems, that I am myself at times, superfluous. As a poor candlelit room proves to be of best effect, I can now comfort …
I definitely had not planned on releasing a second Lanterns Awake EP this soon after the first one, The Times and Betrayals of Charles Adrian Lemieure, in Two Parts. The first songs were recorded in April of 2010 and then released on August 22nd of 2010. It’s possible that having this new EP out brought back …
Lanterns Awake was a name I came up with in 2008. During that time I originally recorded a single indie/post-rock type of song, but I found that it sounded too similar to Vision Éternel and abandoned the project, planning on reusing the name later on. This was until 2010 when it became my new “Projection …
Now this album for me was a huge masterpiece. It was a huge load of work and took two and a half years to complete, plus a whole years delay for it to come out. So a grand total of three and a half years struggle and frustration for this one album. But it is …
“Sadness By Name” was a blog that I started on December 16, 2009. I had started “How Can They Intend to Heal” a few months prior but was forced to focus only on Canadian bands so I started a separate blog where I would only interview bands, regardless of their location. I also chose to …
Interview sent by Alexandre Julien in March 2010 Answered in March 2010 Published on March 18, 2010 Hello Alex, can you introduce yourself and let everyone know what your musical repertoire is? Hey! My full name is Alexandre Julien. I’ve been playing guitar since 2002, starting my first band in 2003 (a band which I …
“Season in Absence” was the first and only single from Vision Éternel’s second EP, “Un automne en solitude”. The music video was planned as far back as October of 2007, but I had nothing to film it with. The same reason delayed the artwork, until I finally took some pictures using my cellphone. After the …
The first song I that wrote for this album was “Song for Kristy” in October 2007. It was in drop D, as all Vision Éternel songs were at the time. The second EP wasn’t even out yet and I had written this song. I was set to do an album about Kristina Zub and I recorded …