September Mourning

September Mourning
September Mourning was an idea for a transmedia project created in 2007 by Emily Lazar when living in New York City. In 2008, after meeting Marc Silvestri of Top Cow Productions on MySpace  and pitching her idea to him, he decided to get involved. Soon after, the project developed into a more structured multiplatform dark culture media project based upon a storyline. In the fall of 2008, Emily started a band to develop the musical side of the project. The band is a hard rock band with metal, pop  and electronic overtones and a very theatrical stage presence. Through her vocal coach, Melissa Cross, Lazar found guitarist/programmer Chris Egert. Shortly after they began writing songs together, Lazar recruited long time friend and guitarist James Duran. The three of them continued to write songs together for two years and toured with rotating drummers and bass players. After moving from New York to Los Angeles in late 2010  the line up went through a complete change with Lazar being the only remaining touring member. Egert stayed on as a writer. The newest lineup has remained unannounced.

At the 2010 San Diego Comic Con, Top Cow Productions announced the creation of Marc Silvestri and Emily Lazar’s concept story, September Mourning which would be published that year in the first edition of their Holiday Special. In the fall of 2011, at the San Diego Comic Con, MTV Geek announced a partnership with Marc Silvestri and Emily Lazar to create webisodes based on the characters in the storyline September Mourning, as well as online comics and other media for their website.

Band Members:
 * Emily Lazar, lead vocalist (2008-present)
 * Chris Egert, guitars, programming (2008-2011)
 * James Duran, guitars (2008-2010)

Discography: Tours:
 * 2009 - 3 song demo produced by Carley Coma of the band Candiria and Mike Barille. Included on the demo was “Lost Angels” written by Gardner Cole.
 * 2010 - preproduction started with Chris Vrenna on EP
 * Winter 2008 opened for Debbie Harry
 * Spring 2009 Hanzel Und Gretyl tour
 * Spring 2009 opened for The Birthday Massacre, Dommin , I Am Ghost
 * Fall 2009 Marilyn Manson tour west coast
 * Spring 2010 opened for RATT
 * Spring 2010 Hanzel Und Gretyl tour

In the Press:
 * Revolver Magazine
 * Kerrang! Magazine
 * Synthesis Magazine
 * Vice Magazine
 * Death and Taxes Magazine
 * Strutter Rock Magazine
 * YRB Magazine
 * 2010: Outburn magazine
 * Music Underground Entertainment News (MUEN)
 * Burn Magazine's premier reissue in the UK
 * Imagozine (Canada)

Additional Media and Endorsements:
 * Coffin Case Endorsement
 * Samson Microphones Endorsement: Lazar featured on the packaging of their   signature wireless microphone
 * Lazar was a feature model for Manic Panic Campaigns and September Mourning is officially endorsed by the company
 * Lip Service endorsement
 * Fernandez Guitar endorsement
 * September Mourning was featured in 2009 in a Draven Shoe Campaign for their new line, Lost Angels. Lazar has been an endorsed artist with Draven since 2006 and September Mourning since 2009

Radio:
 * Jon Lewis' radio show 6PR 882 AM in Perth Western Australia
 * Maxim's Channel on Sirius Radio, Playboy Radio, VM Underground, Metal Monthly and Metalmessiah Radio
 * WRBC 91.5 FM (Maine)
 * RADIO METAL STORM 87.9 FM (Connecticut)
 * THE ROCKET 104.7 FM (Oklahoma)
 * METAL X RADIO, WDYN 100.1 FM (New York)
 * ROCK NATION RADIO (Virginia/Australia)
 * ORADIO 1015 (Florida)
 * 96.3 FM THE BLAZE (Montana)
 * PURE ROCK RADIO (Canada).