-2012 Attempt On July 6th 2012 my grandmother passed away. She had been a mother figure for me my entire life. In fact as far as anyone is concerned, she was my mother. The following couple of weeks I just isolated myself in my bedroom and watched the entire Twin Peaks series back to back, …
“When the Sun Folds” was originally supposed to appear on two other compilations, but was flat out rejected. Kontingent finally wanted to use it. Black Umbra – Asylum Citadel Swamp – When The Sun Folds Embers Below Zero – Strange Lights Red Abizianas – Ohm Society Kontroljet – Phantasm Mrs. Watanabe – AUM001 KTRHSS …
Failed Attempts (January 2013 – February 2013) I first announced that I would be working on a fifth Vision Éternel EP on January 20th of 2013, only two days after Amorine Dallançon left me. Our relationship was short, only beginning on October 25th of 2012, and flourishing for a brief three months. But she was …
was heavily influenced by Swans and Eleventh He Reaches London When I was looking for a record label for the second Soufferance full-length album, “Adieu Tristesse”, I spent the entire night of July 30th/31st 2011 emailing over 75 record labels. One of those labels was Pale Noir Records from Wisconsin, US. Nicole Wilson Renhart got …
After I released “Bonjour Tristesse” and “Adieu Tristesse” on Abridged Pause in November of 2013, I started looking for labels to submit songs for compilations. One of the labels that got back to me was Roach Clip Records from Salt Lake City, Utah on November 17th 2013, after I saw a post on his website …
There isn’t much detail to go into about this third version of Souffearnce’s “Bonjour Tristesse” EP. Like I mentioned in the CD and tape posts, this release was plagued with problems and I figured that I should do a proper, official, digital re-issue through Abridged Pause Recordings to coincide with the digital release of “Adieu …
To add: -Adieu Tristesse Recorded: November 30th 2009 – November 14th 2010 First mixing: November 16th 2010 – November 21st 2010 Second Mixing: February 2nd 2011 – May 16th 2011 Third Mixing September 9th 2011 (Marc Hoyland) Fourth Mixing (8th song) Summer 2012? Samples Mixed: August 26th 2013 Produced: November 30th 2009 – August 26th …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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, …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I released this Vision Éternel single for free, exclusively on Bandcamp on February 20th, 2010. This was recorded in the middle of the “Abondance de périls” recording session. I decided to release this for two reasons. First I it had been so long that Vision Éternel had released anything new, and I wanted to get a little buzz …
When I finished the Soufferance album “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind” in June of 2009, I sent it off to James Shepard (aka Suhrim from Triskalyon). He loved it so much that he asked me to use one of the parts as an intro to his band’s upcoming demo. He was playing …
Having worked with Black Autumn and Smohalla on my record label and Semiosis’ association with Assylum Arts, I had heard of the Skeksis compilations. I had just finished all the Soufferance stuff for the reissue of Forthcoming Travels and the release of Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind. I wanted some extra exposure …
I always felt that the original issue of this EP was overlooked. I really didn’t do that much promotion, mainly because I knew that the full length would be so different from the bits put on it. But by mid-June 2009, the full length was finally done, and I wanted to revive this ep to …
look in hotmail and FB activity log sent emails for more info 2008 September 16th, FAcebook status “is siked about Abridged Pause Recordings” Last.fm Scrobbles/ FB Logs (some of them) 2008 December 8th, Last.fm Black Autumn – Rivers Of Dead Leaves (full album) Black Sand And Starless Nights – Good Question Black Sand And Starless …
In 2009 I didn’t get a new Vision Éternel EP out, so what I did was push for reissues. First of all the two EPs at the time were combined on An Anthology of Past Misfortunes, and released on CD in Japan. Next for me was to try to get those EPs out on cassette tapes. …
Early 2009 was approaching fast, and I still couldn’t write enough material for a third Vision Éternel EP. I think it was in November that I got in touch with Frozen Veins Records. He had added me on myspace and I sent him a message asking if he wanted to work with VE. He responded right …
-The second EP (April 2007 – July 2007) In late February of 2007, less than two weeks after Vision Éternel’s first EP “Seul Dans L’obsession” had been released, I decided to end the Triskalyon collective, which I had founded in August of 2006 with some friends. By ending the collective, I also decided to put …
After the first Vision Sufferance demo came out in October of 2006, I didn’t plan on continuing this band. But in January of 2007 I started recording songs that did not fit in any of my active bands, Vision Lunar or Throne of Mortality. Some of these new songs helped form Vision Éternel and some just …
In July of 2007, I had permanently moved back to Montreal. I had made a list for a new Lunar demo “Lunar VIII” to be recorded in August, as soon as I had received my belongings that my parents were sending me. I had found a crummy apartment on Bleury with roomates that were stealing my …
I first came in contact with Betty “Mankiller” Barnes in 2007 during the promotion of Vision Éternel’s first album. I was adding people like crazy on myspace, and she was one of the cool ones who actually listened to the stuff and talked to me about it. We kept in touch for a little while, and later …
This was a compilation put together by Aurélien (Der.Walsch/Lansquenet, from Triskalyon). We started the Street Metal Forum together in 2006 a year later we collaborated musically for Gallia Fornax. He started putting together this compilation in 2007 and advertised to find bands from members of the forum. I cannot verify this but I think that …
I started working on this compilation in February of 2007. It was supposed to feature one or two songs from every band that was part of Triskalyon at the time. However, some bands had nothing recorded (Darklink, Unkwiss and Vision Pariah) or had nothing that they felt was worth sharing with the public (Azag-Thoth and …
Gallia Fornax was a black ambient solo project formed by Triskalyon member Der.Walsch some time in 2005. Like the members of Les Legions Noires, I wanted the members in Triskalyon to have side projects together. Der.Walsch originally came to me in January of 2007, suggesting we do “Vision Funeral Doom” together using the newly recorded songs …
By this point Triskalyon was going down. And Lunar was on its way too. I had recorded a few new demos between “Luna Maria” and this, and it seemed that no one else but me liked them. And it hurt me really bad. I’ll have to make an individual post about one of those songs …
this album was a turning point, especially in hindsight. i used to tell people on Myspace “this will be a special release, it will even have a music video” and it was held back until valentines day. released triskalyon website at the same time. the last chords played in Love Within Extended reflect the …
I knew what it was like to be rushed for a new song with “Luna Borea”, so I didn’t allow myself to be in that situation again with “Luna Maria”. It was on the late night of January 13th 2007, two days before my birthday, and I was jamming some stuff, already plugged in my …
“L’esprit dans le ciel” is one of the songs I am the most proud of of my entire musical career. And it is for sure the song that “put me on the map” when it comes to people hearing about my music back in 2007. And if you ask any fans of Lunar what the …
This story is very similar to the past release “Lunar Sky”. It was the same idea, the same views, the same concept and pretty much the same sound. Except it sounded a little bit fuller, because I was really taking advantage of doubling my guitars. It was slightly inspired by the Necrophobic song “Roots of …
I had my mind set on doing something special with the Lunar schedule. The moon had been very important to me in my past creations, being part of the first Throne of Mortality lyrics I ever wrote, and now having its own project. In mid October I started working on a new Lunar song, and …
Even though the first EP was never fully finished due to lack of musicians, I continued to write new music for TOM. This music was much inspired by Nachtfalke and Mutiilation. Some of the songs had lyrics but these demos stayed instrumental because I was living at my grandmothers at the time and couldn’t do …
At the time Triskalyon was brand new, the goal was to get as many bands and projects in as possible. We wanted to have so many different genres within the people involved that I was myself separating everything. I feel like this should have been a continuation of Throne of Mortality. But I was writing …
Vision Solitude is the mistake band I released in the early stages of Triskalyon. Or perhaps Solitude was right but Soufferance was wrong? What occurred at the time was my passion with Les Legions Noires and wanting to separate every different compositions I made into bands. Solitude was created on October 3rd after hearing the Daniel …
The first demo of a band that has since gone very far. I never thought this band would continue. After all the confusion between this release and Vision Solitude (both should have been combined) I just thought that this band was a one off. It was later revived in January 2007, but this first demo …
“Monumental Dedication” was intended to be a masterpiece in black metal. I had really high hopes for this, and all I was lacking was a drummer. The songs composed for this EP make up the great majority of Phase 1 and Phase 2, but the digital demos were only released in September so it made …
This was originally called the “Winter ’06” demo but I later changed it to “Winter ’05”. This was the final of the seasonal TOM demos. For some reason there is only one TOM song on here with two covers. “You Will Fucking Die” actually appeared on every single TOM demos of 2005, and I think …
These demos were recorded in October 2005 and not only marked the first time I was alone in Throne of Mortality, but also the last recordings of the death metal pieces in TOM (although I did re-record some of them later on to see what I still had in me). I had an intro which …
This was the first official Throne of Mortality release, and technically the only official one, since everything else only contained demos in my eyes. This was recorded in September of 2005 on a cassette tape when Howard Eichenblatt (Sabbat) and I were jamming in my parents garage. I recall this taking place in late afternoon, because …
Somewhere behind the lines, something about The Slopin Fairy 7 evolved into Throne of Mortality. Even if there was a big gap of nothing in between, and even some droplets of completely different material. The System of a Down cover band and the Eighteen Visions/Bleeding Through influenced metalcore compositions were somehow fit between these two, but the …
“The Fairy” marks the starting point when I really began to write music. I was serious about what I was doing and what I wanted to accomplish (even if in hindsight the song-writing was immature). “The Fairy” was to be my first full length album. The making of the album spanned from August of 2003 to …
Bolé was the planned first single from The Slopin Fairy 7’s full length “The Fairy“. It was fully planned but was never recorded, due to the priority of finishing the writing of the album. The single was to feature alternate takes of two songs from “The Fairy”, “Bolé” and “Break”, as well as a b-side, …
I had gotten my first guitar in December of 2002, because my best friend Jeremy had gotten one three months prior in September. I started to write my first song in May or June of 2003. That first song was “Break”. Sometime from late June to early July of 2003, I went to visit my …