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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
In the summer of 2007 I began working on some metalcore material. At first, it was put off as Projection Mina songs, but I was really interested in doing something in the veins of 90’s metallic hardcore. The problem was that I had never written material like that at the time and I wasn’t even …
This video is one of the brilliant comedy pieces Triskalyon could bring out. Darklink (Phil Altobelli) was known for making parodies of black metal musicians, and in this video he makes fun of me during my days in Throne of Mortality. I had a song with french lyrics talking about the moon. I cannot recall the date …
To understand how Throne of Mortality formed, we must go back a year before, around October 2004, at the end of the Scapegoat phase. While attending a New Jersey high school, J.P. Stevens, I met Howard Change (Sabbat) by coincidence, as I was wearing a Mr. Bungle t-shirt or hoodie (I had both). That autumn …
“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 …
Prior to shooting the footage for Vision Éternel’s music video for “Love within Narcosis” (only days later), I experimented with my parent’s JVC GR-DVM90 camcorder. I had initially used it in The Slopin Fairy 7 photoshoot, then had dug it out again to film Silk Winter and then finally for another photoshoot. But it had been collecting dust and I …
My obsession with Faith No More has been something ever growing, and it doesn’t look like it will ever die. Everyone who knows me, even slightly, will know that Faith No More is my favourite band. Tom Nunziata introduced me to Faith No More in the summer of 2003 while we were working at the …