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 food and a crummy job at the Cafe Depot at the corner of the street. Initially I had only brought one guitar, Mina, and started composing a Bleeding Through influenced Vision Lunar song, with which I had hopped to bring back the project with a full line-up now that I was living in a city.
I was tunned in Drop B and when I got my computer I recorded a rough demo of “Lunar VIII” and of “Lunar IX”, neither of which were released, for reasons I honestly don’t remember. Perhaps I was just waiting to record them in better quality. By this time I was working at this other crummy job at the Vinyl bar across the street with an owner that stole my tips. This owner, Josh McConnell was at the time invited for a tryout to play solos over Vision Éternel, when I wanted to expand the band. I had also hoped that he join the line-up to finally form the Vision Lunar band, but neither collaborations happened. But he did put me in contact with Mike Dyball, who was in Priestess, with whom I connected on great lengths. We shared ideas and talked of making Lunar into Neurosis-type atmospheric black metal masterpiece. Mike would have joined as the bassist, but this also didn’t happen.
Finally in November of 2010 I recorded a brand new Vision Lunar song, “L’absence de la lune”. It was such a great song, and I think one of the best Lunar songs ever composed. The build up at the end seems to have been obviously influenced by Nachtfalke’s “Doomed to Die” song. The recording quality was pretty poor though. I released this new demo as “Luna Pluvia” to continue the Luna Phase of 2007.
Imperfect “Luna Pluvia” artwork before it was corrected
When I first made the artwork for this demo, my monitor was dying and I wasn’t able to see just how much things were blending. They appeared perfect on my end, but I later found out that they weren’t. When the demo came out, it had an imperfect artwork for the first few months. For this I used one of my favorite fonts, Paulson. This was also the first Lunar release with the official logo, which had been designed by Frédérique Rivard in May of 2007.
Vision Lunar logo drawn by Frederique Rivard in May 2007
Luna Pluvia artwork front cover
- L’absence de la lune
artwork by Alexandre Julien
logo by Frédérique Rivard
recorded November 2007 at Mortified Studios (MTL1)
released by Mortification Records (MT012)
released on November 24th 2007