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Vision Éternel photo shoot in Wexford. Photography by Rain Frances, 2017.

Vision Éternel Hints At A Sixth EP

For the last eight years, Vision Éternel founder Alexandre Julien has been working on the retrospective boxed set "An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes" to give a proper physical home to the band's previous releases (2007-2015). Now that it's out, the band is eager to move forward...

Vision Éternel Giveaway Package: The Winner Is Announced

Giveaway Package: The Winner Is Announced

On April 11th of 2018, Vision Éternel announced a giveaway contest in promotion of the band's new retrospective boxed set, "An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes". Contestants had a full month to enter the drawing by sending an email to the band with their favourite Vision...

An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes Boxed Set Is Released

An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes Boxed Set Is Released

After eight years as an idea and four years in active making, Vision Éternel's long-anticipated boxed set "An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes" is finally out! Released through Abridged Pause Recordings, the collection features five compact discs, one cassette, two stickers, six business card flyers and...

Vision Éternel Announces Upcoming Music Video

Vision Éternel Announces Upcoming Music Video

Vision Éternel would like to announce that we are working on a new music video. This will be the band's fifth music video, following "Love Within Narcosis" in 2007, the two versions of "Season In Absence" in 2008 and 2010, and "Pièce No. Trois" in...

Happy New Year From Vision Éternel

Happy New Year From Vision Éternel

Happy New Year to all Vision Éternel fans! Vision Éternel is proud to celebrate 11 years as a band starting in January 2018. After a short and much needed rest during the autumn of 2017, Vision Éternel would like to reveal that we are back on...

Vision Éternel T-Shirts And Stickers Are Available

Vision Éternel T-Shirts And Stickers Are Available

What better way to celebrate Vision Éternel's 10-year anniversary than with apparel! It took ten years to happen but Vision Éternel finally has band t-shirts available! This is a major accomplishment and we really hope that you will like the designs that we have to...

Vision Éternel Pièce No. Trois Video Is Released

Pièce No. Trois Video Is Released

As part of Vision Éternel's 10-year anniversary celebration, it is with extreme pleasure that we are releasing a brand new music video for "Pièce No. Trois". It's been seven and a half years since Vision Éternel last released a music video, for "Season In Absence" in...

Vision Éternel Pièce No. Trois Video Premieres On The Obelisk

Pièce No. Trois Video Premieres On The Obelisk

As part of Vision Éternel's 10-year anniversary celebration, it is an extreme pleasure to announce that the respected webzine The Obelisk is premiering our new music video for "Pièce No. Trois"! It's been seven and a half years since Vision Éternel last released a music...

New Vision Éternel Logo Designed By Christophe Szpajdel

New Vision Éternel Logo Designed By Christophe Szpajdel

Vision Éternel has a brand new band logo designed by the world-renown Belgian graphic designer Christophe Szpajdel (aka The Lord Of The Logos). Christophe Szpajdel has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including the Foo Fighters, Metallica, Calvin Harris, Bruno...

Vision Éternel photo shoot in Wexford. Photography by Rain Frances, 2017.

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Wexford

Vision Éternel went out this damp spring evening for another promotional band photo shoot in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. This photographic session was impromptu as a heavy fog settled over the Laurentian Mountains at dusk. Accompanied by our trusty photographer Rain Frances, we drove...

Follow Vision Éternel On Spotify

Follow Vision Éternel On Spotify

Vision Éternel is now on Spotify! After years of neglecting the importance of this platform, all five Vision Éternel EPs are now on there for streaming and buying. Spotify has come a long way since the days of Last.fm, which the band had a pretty...

Vision Éternel Featured On The Obelisk Radio And Blog

Vision Éternel Featured On The Obelisk Radio And Blog

Vision Éternel is now one of the featured artists on The Obelisk's radio station. Earlier in February, the band was approached by the noted webzine's founder and writer JJ Koczan, who took the initiative to check out Vision Éternel without solicitation! JJ Koczan has now added...

Vision Éternel Now Has Official Video Channels

Vision Éternel Now Has Official Video Channels

After ten years of having videos hosted through Abridged Pause Recordings and Mortification Records channels on YouTube, Vision Éternel finally has its own video channels. But it isn't limited to YouTube; the same content has been added to Vision Éternel's brand new channels on Vimeo and Dailymotion,...

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci

This evening we drove out to the Laurentian Mountains for a new Vision Éternel photo shoot to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the band and the upcoming releases and surprises planned for 2017. The pictures were taken in a nice little park in Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci by...

2007-2017: Vision Éternel Celebrates Its 10-Year Anniversary

2007-2017: Vision Éternel Celebrates Its 10-Year Anniversary

Vision Éternel is happy to celebrate its 10-year anniversary! That's right, January 2017 marks a decade since the project started. It all started one evening in January of 2007 while experimenting at Mortified Studios (then called Mortified Studio, singular) with brand new effects. "Love Within...

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Wexford

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Wexford

A couple of days before Christmas, we decided that it was time for a new Vision Éternel photo shoot. The last band photo shoot was taken almost four years ago. Accompanied by our trusty photographer Rain Frances, we drove up to the little town of...

Vision Lunar Covers Vision Éternel

Vision Lunar Covers Vision Éternel

Alexandre Julien's atmospheric black metal project, Vision Lunar, has covered the Vision Éternel song "Season In Desperation". Simply titled "Desperation", the song appears as the opener of Vision Lunar's new EP, "Luna Subortus", released on September 28th of 2015 through Abridged Pause Recordings and Winterwolf...

Vision Éternel Echoes From Forgotten Hearts EP Is Released

Echoes From Forgotten Hearts EP Is Released

It isn't just a coincidence that Vision Éternel's new extended play "Echoes From Forgotten Hearts" is released on Valentine's Day. It's sort of a tradition for the band to release albums on this holiday (whenever possible), and this goes back to the first EP, "Seul Dans...

Vision Éternel Announces New EP

Vision Éternel Announces New EP

It's been nearly three years since Vision Éternel's last EP, "The Last Great Torch Song", released in March of 2012 through Abridged Pause Recordings. After months of silence, we can now confirm that Vision Éternel has a new EP is in the works. We've been...

Vision Eternel Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

Vision Éternel Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

This interview was conducted with Alexandre Julien for the Abridged Pause Blog on August 30th of 2013. For archival purposes, the interview is now presented here: -Hello Alex. Thank you for taking the time to answer these few questions. First of all, what has been happening with Vision...

Vision Éternel Interviews Series On The Abridged Pause Blog

Vision Éternel Interviews Series On Abridged Pause Blog

Abridged Pause Recordings' blog is doing a special set of posts called the "Vision Éternel Interviews Series". Over the next week, Abridged Pause Blog will be republishing archival Vision Éternel interviews spanning from 2009 to 2010, leading up to a brand new interview conducted with...

Vision Éternel Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

Vision Éternel Hints At A Fifth EP

After many months claiming that 2012's "The Last Great Torch Song" EP would likely be Vision Éternel's swansong, Alexandre Julien hints that a fifth EP might be coming. The fifth EP is scheduled to feature seven songs, two of which have been written with a third underway....

Vision Éternel Featured On Radio Glass Sampler

Vision Éternel Featured On Rádio Etiópia’s Glass Sampler

Vision Éternel has been featured on this week's radio program, as well as its accompanying digital compilation, Portugal's Rádio Etiópia. The station has aired the Vision Éternel song "Thoughts As Solicitation" from the 2010 EP, "Abondance De Périls" and included it on a freely downloadable sampler...

Vision Éternel Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

Vision Éternel Planning Music Video With Director Howard Change

Last July, it was announced that two Vision Éternel songs were scheduled to appear in Howard Change's American independent film "Lucid Dreaming In New Jersey" and its accompanying soundtrack: "Sometimes In Anticipating Moments (Valleys Of The Living Mix)" and "Sometimes In Absolute Togetherness". Both songs originally...

Vision Éternel Video Introduction To The Last Great Torch Song

Video: An Introduction To The Last Great Torch Song

Last night we went out to film a new video for Vision Éternel. Accompanied by Jeremy Roux, we headed to Saint Helen's Island, a man-built island between Montreal and the South Shore which has a gorgeous historical building and also holds the foundations of the...

Vision Éternel photo shoot on Saint Helen's Island. Photography by Jeremy Roux, 2012.

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot On Saint Helen’s Island

Tonight we went out to film a video for Vision Éternel, to introduce the new EP, "The Last Great Torch Song". While out on location, our photographer Jeremy Roux decided to shoot a few pictures. Jeremy has worked several times with Alexandre Julien over the years,...

Vision Éternel The Last Great Torch Song EP Is Released

The Last Great Torch Song EP Is Released

After taking a few years to carefully prepare a fourth EP, Vision Éternel finally unveils "The Last Great Torch Song". This album marks a new achievement and step towards elaborating on the minimalist sound of Vision Éternel. The first two releases, "Seul Dans L’obsession" and "Un...

Arboretus Covers Vision Éternel

Arboretus Covers Vision Éternel

Alexander Fawcett's solo ambient project, Arboretus has recorded and released a cover of Vision Éternel's fan-favourite song, "Love Within Narcosis". Based in Petersfield, England, Alexander Fawcett has made a name for himself in UK's metal and ambient communities by playing in Oceanus, Esuna, Hagakure, Karmyne, Sleepless Dreams...

Vision Éternel photo shoot at Dalhousie Station, Montreal. Photography by Jeremy Roux, 2011.

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot At Dalhousie Station

Tonight, Vision Éternel went out for a new photo shoot with established graphic designer and talented photographer Jeremy Roux. We headed to the old Dalhousie train station in Old Montreal, one of the few gem buildings still standing from a long-forgotten era of development by the...

Vision Éternel Mentioned In Book La Croche Lune

Vision Éternel Mentioned In Book La Croche Lune

Vision Éternel has been mentioned in a book about ambient, post-rock and other gothic-influenced genre bands. The French book is called "La Croche Lune", dubbed "Musique émotionnelle, mouvement gothique" and is written by David D'Halleine, a blogger who operates a webzine of the same name. The...

Vision Éternel Interview For The Inarguable

Vision Éternel Announces The Last Great Torch Song EP

First hinted at back in March of 2011, Alexandre Julien has been working on a new Vision Éternel EP. Set to be titled "The Last Great Torch Song", the band's fourth EP will feature five songs and will be released on Abridged Pause Recordings in...

Vision Éternel photo shoot at Dominion Square, Montreal. Photography by Jeremy Roux, 2011.

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot At Dominion Square

Tonight, Vision Éternel went out for a new photo shoot with graphic designer and frequent collaborator Jeremy Roux. After a quick bite at a local diner for cheesecake and coffee, it was out to fight the bitter cold of Canada's long-lasting winter in the month...

Vision Éternel Interview For The Inarguable

Vision Éternel Interview For The Inarguable

This interview was conducted by Shane Hill with Alexandre Julien for The Inarguable on October 14the of  2010. For archival purposes, the complete interview is now presented here: -Vision Éternel is a musical entity born in the mind of Alexandre Julien, who likes to describe his sounds...

Love Within Narcosis Video Is Released

Love Within Narcosis Video Is Remastered

The music video of the fan-favourite "Love Within Narcosis" has been remastered and re-released. The original music video was filmed on a beat up JVC MiniDV camcorder that my family had bought at least five or six years prior to the filming. At that particular time...

Vision Éternel Great Messengers Palms Compilation Is Released

Great Messengers: Palms Compilation Is Released

Earlier this year, Vision Éternel was approached by Bradley James Palko of Dedicated Records to contribute an exclusive song to the various artists compilation, "Great Messengers: Palms". Initially scheduled to be released in July of 2010 on a 3-CD boxed set, for the one-year anniversary...

Vision Éternel Video Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

Vision Éternel Video Interview For Abridged Pause Blog

Tonight we went out for the first official Vision Éternel photo shoot. Following this, Alexandre Julien gave an impromptu (and rather nervous) interview atop of Mount Royal, an extinct volcano with an observatory looking over Montreal city. The video interview was filmed and directed by Jeremy...

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Montreal

Vision Éternel Photo Shoot In Montreal

Tonight we went out for the first official Vision Éternel photo shoot. Though the band has been active since January of 2007, there was never any need for promotional pictures to be taken. Some pictures have been floating around the web, labeled as Vision Éternel,...

Vision Éternel Officially Coins The Term Melogaze

Vision Éternel Officially Coins The Term Melogaze

Alexandre Julien of Vision Éternel has officially coined a new term and genre to describe the band's music: Melogaze. After years of struggling to describe what kind of music Vision Éternel was making, whenever asked by someone who had not heard the music, Alexandre Julien...

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Vision Éternel To Collaborate With Dedicated Records

Vision Éternel was approached by Bradley James Palko of Dedicated Records to contribute an exclusive song to an upcoming Various Artists compilation. "Great Messengers: Palms" will be released in July of 2010 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Chicago-based record label Dedicated Records. Vision...

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