Each year on Valentine’s Day, Vision Eternel offers either a new concept extended play, or, in lieu of one being ready, an exclusive unreleased song from its archives. Named Valentine’s Day Exclusive, this tradition has been going...
Three and a half years after starting the project, Vision Eternel’s For Farewell Of Nostalgia extended play is finally out! The concept release is a narrative about how emotionally devastating falling in love too fast can be and the...
Vision Eternel’s new extended play For Farewell Of Nostalgia has been kept private over the last few months while awaiting the September 14, 2020 release date. With the exception of some considerably different pre-production recordings...
For Farewell Of Nostalgia, Vision Eternel‘s newest extended play, will be released digitally through Abridged Pause Recordings on September 14th 2020. The release will also be coming out on compact disc and compact cassette through...
Happy new year! Vision Eternel compact discs and t-shirts available. When Abridged Pause Recordings released the boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” in 2018, a handful of “Promotional Press Bundles” were made...
As of last night, Vision Eternel’s boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” is sold out! And this past summer, Soufferance’s “Travels” boxed set sold out! Abridged Pause Recordings and the bands would...
On May 24th, Vision Éternel undertook an excursion in the Laurentian Mountains forest to film a new documentative video. Luckily, it was a beautiful sunny day, and despite the bugs enjoying the weather as much as we were, we had a lot of fun...
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...
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...
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...
To celebrate the upcoming release of Vision Éternel‘s long-anticipated boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes“, the band has partnered up with American webzine The Obelisk for a very special premiere and giveaway...
Vision Éternel announced today that they 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...
Vision Éternel is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with the release of a new music video for the song “Pièce No. Trois“. The song originally appeared on Vision Éternel’s 2015 EP “Echoes From Forgotten...
Vision Éternel is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with the release of Abridged Pause Apparel’s new t-shirts and stickers. Click here to go straight to Vision Éternel’s shop, or continue reading below for an in-depth...
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...
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. Three of these EPs were released through Abridged Pause Recordings. Spotify...
Hello fans of Abridged Pause! Welcome to the new year and thank you for caring enough to read this! I really love doing this yearly news post, filled with promises of grandiose releases. Unfortunately there are always a few that end up not...
“This moon lives again”, announces Alexandre Julien, nearly seven years after Vision Lunar posted its farewell status “This moon is dead”. Vision Lunar was founded in October of 2006, went under hiatus in 2007 and...
Some of you may remember Vision Lunar; Alexandre Julien’s solo atmospheric black metal project. From 2006 to 2007 the project released seven demos, always on a day of the full moon. After going through a hiatus and ultimately breaking up...
No it isn’t just a coincidence that Vision Éternel’s new album “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts” gets released on Valentine’s Day. Its sort of a tradition for the band to release their albums on this holiday (when...
It’s been nearly three years since Vision Éternel’s last album, “The Last Great Torch Song”, released in March of 2012 through Abridged Pause Recordings. On October 31st 2014, the ambient band announced via their...
After three years sitting in Alexandre Julien’s “vault” (because the hope of seeing this out had been abandoned) Abridged Pause Recordings finally unveils Soufferance’s anticipated third album “Memories of a...
Abridged Pause has been around since 2008. Initially it was started as a full record label, as Abridged Pause Recordings. In 2013, I merged my blog, which was created to write retrospectives of forgotten bands and record label interviews, onto...
It’s almost halfway through February now and I’m just getting to the news update for 2014. Most labels hurried up and got their first label post in the first week on January, but here at Abridged Pause, I’ll take the blame for...
Abridged Pause Recordings is proud to finally release it’s eighth and ninth releases, Soufferance’s “Bonjour Tristesse” EP and “Adieu Tristesse” LP. Both releases have been four years in the making and...
We just filmed a quick video to show you what the new Soufferance “Travels” boxset looks like. Yes there are pictures already but this is better! And besides what more can you ask for than the artist talking about his work, right...
We are proud to officially announce our first real news of working with dark ambient project Soufferance. Soufferance has been making music since the summer of 2006 and has always been very impressive with each of their release. Not only has...
I would like to officially announce that a new various artists compilation is in the works at Abridged Pause Recordings! After the immense success of our last compilation, “Diluvian Temperals”, (which was also our very first release...
Alexandre Julien, the man behind Vision Éternel, filmed a promotional video last night with the help of Jeremy Roux (our fabulous web designer). The short film introduces the new release “The Last Great Torch Song” with its...
New Kailash and Vision Éternel albums are out! We are really happy to announce that the new Kailash album “Past Changing Fast: Faster Ahead” and the Vision Éternel EP “The Last Great Torch Song” are now officially...
New website, new releases Welcome to the new Abridged Pause Recordings website! This is the second version of the website, once again brilliantly designed by Jeremy Roux. This new version features high resolution pictures of all the bands and...
Abridged Pause Recordings signs Kailash! Kailash becomes part of the official Abridged Pause Recordings roster! Kailash has been part of the guest Abridged Pause Recordings roster since 2009, with the inclusion of their song “Past...
Abridged Pause Recordings introduces its two newest releases! Beyond the Dune Sea and Vision Éternel are now fully active artists on the Abridged Pause Recordings roster. We really hope that you will take a bit of your time to check them out...
Abridged Pause Recordings introduces its two newest releases! Beyond the Dune Sea and Vision Éternel are now fully active artists on the Abridged Pause Recordings roster. We really hope that you will take a bit of your time to check them out...
Abridged Pause Recordings was officially registered under the Quebec and Canada company law today. Because of some highly questionable French laws, a French name also had to be submitted, although it will never be used. Abridged Pause...
Beyond the Dune Sea, a post-rock band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has now joined the Abridged Pause Recordings roster! There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity...
Our website is under construction, so our Myspace is our main output for the moment. We have two releases out at the moment, but a load more are to come. Now that APR1 – “Diluvian Temperals” compilation and APR2 –...
Phlegma and Stagnant Waters bring you an amazing split EP, “Sea of Abandoned Polaroids“. Now you may be asking yourself, “Who are these bands? How come I’ve never heard of them before and yet they are so good!”...
Well, it’s finally here! The very first release by Abridged Pause Recordings! “Diluvian Temperals” took months to put together but I’ll tell you, it was worth it! It was worth the wait, the pain and the struggle. What...
Changes are slowly occurring to this website. What we mean by slowly is that most of it is done, as you can see, but about 25% of it has yet to be finished. Our graphic designer Jeremy Roux assures us that it will be done in June though...
Just to let everyone know that there is now free media in each of the artists’ pages on Abridged Pause Recordings. This includes videos, images and free MP3s of demos and selected recordings the bands have chosen to let you download for...
This is it: the band Abridged Pause Recordings was waiting for. Vision Éternel. With two EPs already out on Mortification Records and a compilation under way on Frozen Veins Records, Vision Éternel is one of the best established bands in the...
We at Abridged Pause Recordings feel like resting on a cloud when we think of our growing roster of artists, and especially when we listen to Ethereal Beauty. This band will be releasing a split 7″ vinyl with the noted Canadian melogaze...
Abridged Pause Recordings is proud to announce to everyone that Black Autumn will be working with us on their next release. Black Autumn has very recently released “Rivers of Dead Leaves” and you can still get the limited edition packaging...
Abridged Pause Recordings would like to welcome and share with you the very first band we will be working with, Dreams of the Drowned. This amazing post-black metal band from France will be reaching your ears with a first full-length release in...
Hello to all of you interested readers that have wandered into the new website of Abridged Pause Recordings. Abridged Pause Recordings is the new savior of good music. Founded officially in 2008, with a purpose to bring back the vinyl format...