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Alexandre Julien

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Alexandre Julien

Canadian-American musician, composer and producer

From
Côte-des-Neiges, Canada
Active
1988–2025
Rating
★ 5 (2 votes)
Releases
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  • black ambient
  • depressive black metal
  • dream pop
  • ambient
  • atmospheric black metal
  • atmospheric sludge metal
  • dark ambient
  • dark folk

About

Vision Eternel (originally spelled and stylized as Vision Éternel) was a Canadian-American ambient rock band. Formed by guitarist Alexander Julien in Edison, New Jersey, United States in January 2007, the band eventually relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in July 2007. The musical group's mainly instrumental sound has been described variously by critics as a blend of ambient, shoegaze, post-rock, ethereal, drone, space rock, emo, post-black metal, post-metal, dark ambient, dark wave, experimental rock, minimal, dream pop, progressive rock, modern classical, and new-age.

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The band released its debut extended play, Seul dans l'obsession, in 2007, followed by another extended play, Un automne en solitude, in 2008, both via American record label Mortification Records. While still based in New Jersey, the musical group included second guitarist Philip Altobelli, who joined after the release of the band's debut but departed before the recording of the second extended play. Once established in Quebec, the band was expanded with two more guitarists, Nidal Mourad and Adam Kennedy, but they departed before the recording of the band's third output. In 2009, a compilation album of the first two extended plays, An Anthology of Past Misfortunes, was released by Japanese record label Frozen Veins Records.
After signing with Canadian record label Abridged Pause Recordings, Vision Eternel followed up with three more extended plays: Abondance de périls in 2010, The Last Great Torch Song in 2012, and Echoes from Forgotten Hearts (originally composed as the score to a short film) in 2015. In 2018, Abridged Pause Recordings released the box set An Anthology of Past Misfortunes, comprising remastered versions of the band's entire 2007–2015 output, along with a bonus compilation of previously unreleased demos and b-sides. The band's sixth extended play, For Farewell of Nostalgia, was co-released by American record label Somewherecold Records, Dutch record label Geertruida, and Abridged Pause Recordings in 2020. A deluxe edition of Echoes from Forgotten Hearts was issued by Geertruida in 2024, containing the previously unreleased soundtrack version of the recording, a bonus compilation of demos and alternate takes and mixes, and a non-fiction novel detailing the making of the release.

From Vision Eternel on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also known as

Alex F. Julien · Alex Julian · Alex Julien · Alexander Julian · Alexander Julien · Alexander MacJulien · Alexandre Julian · DJ Hack · HDS · Peine · Smit · Virkelig Død · Virkelix

Tags

  • ambiance
  • ambient black metal
  • artbient
  • atmospheric
  • atmospheric ambient
  • cinematic
  • concept album
  • emotional music
  • melogaze
  • post-black metal
  • psychedelic black metal
  • space black metal

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ISNI
0000000372904749
IPI
00714373161

Data from MusicBrainz, saved 8 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.