Just individual songs that had an important impact to me.
-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 …
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 …
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, …
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, …
“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 …
There isn’t much to say about the band itself, because it was just a folder to store all my death metal ideas. It was never planned as a band because I knew I wasn’t good enough to play death metal or thrash metal. But the songs themselves have a story and I can do my …
-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 …
“Love within Narcosis” is without a doubt my landmark, at least according to my closest friends who understand my music and understood Triskalyon completely. “Narcosis” was I think the third or fourth song to be recorded for Vision Éternel, and it was a really cool riff progression, but I just couldn’t get to record it …
These were the two songs composed in February of 2007 (exact date unknown) that caused me to start doubting Triskalyon. There was also a few zines/posers affair, but principally it was inner troubles within the members. Triskalyon technically could have continued with just me, but it would of been pointless. Darklink (Phil Altobelli) and Surhim were …
The way I got over Dylan was when I started talking to Anne-Marie Bouchard (Bilou). I was still living in Edison but I was planning to move back to Montreal to go to cooking school at l’ITHQ. I actually moved to Montreal a week after recording this. We really liked each other and it was …
This is perhaps one of the most important songs in the transition from the amateur days to the serious composing period. I began composing “Ballad for a Goddess” in September of 2004, during the end of Scapegoat, as a dedication for Nicole Coughlin. This early version was only the clean guitar part and was most …
This song was the first true black metal song I ever wrote. It was in the late summer of 2005. It was originally called “You Will Die” but after a suggestion from Howie, it was extended to “You Will Fucking Die”. This song was re-recorded on almost every Throne of Mortality demo, apart from the …
The Scapegoat chronology is very hard to pin down. But on the positive side, everything happened in 2004, there is no doubt about the year. This can be narrowed down further to between April 2004, at it’s earliest, and October 2004, at it’s latest, which itself may be a stretched out period. By February of …