Outputs created during the period of September 2009 to December 2010.
-Phase 1.1 (October 2006 – December 2006) Vision Lunar is an atmospheric, psychedelic/progressive black metal band founded by Alexandre Julien in the fall of 2006. The idea came to him on Friday October 6th of 2006 as he got off the bus on his way home from a day of working at a local café. …
-Éphémère Part One (February to June 2010) In the early months of 2010 I was very musically active and this was likely due to a dark and depressive period which I was going through. All at the same time, I was finishing and releasing the third Vision Éternel extended play; Abondance De Périls, waiting on the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
“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 …
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, …
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 …
“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, …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
The history of Vision Solitude is mostly comprised of sporadic ideas that quickly fizzled out. For a long time, I ignored the importance of this project, judging that every occurrence was a mistake and should have been incorporated in other projects. While this is mostly true, I finally took the time to write about all …
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 …
“Happiness of the Rain” is a true story of a song that completely changed my lifestyle. “Terra” by Rain Tongue has had quite a profound effect on me. Exact date of even undetermined. Possibly March 23rd 2009, or March 29th/30th 2009. Probably related to EA Games and Carolyn Kingsland. This story was written a year …
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’m going to start this out by introducing how I heard and came across to be obsessed with this band. It was late spring 2009, and through a forum post concerning Shoulder, Embassy and Split Lip. Someone recommended Castevet to me. Myspace was of course the first place I went to check them out. “Plays …
-The Slopin Fairy 7 (2003) “When You’re Not Meant for Love” was the second song that I ever composed. It was written in June or July of 2003, shortly after the first song that I wrote, “Break”. The title was very self-explanatory. I continuously failed to find a girl whose feelings were reciprocal. This was …
I registered the Street Metal Forum domain on March 20th 2006. It was named after the Abigail album “Forever Street Metal Bitch”, which I had recently discovered with Howie Change (Sabbat in Throne of Mortality). He had also gotten me into Mütiilation, and that was the beginning of of Les Legions Noires for me. I …