September Mourning

September Mourning is a transmedia project whose storyline/idea began to form by September (Emily Lazar) when living in New York City. 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, Marlowe, C (2011). Digital Media Wire



In the spring of 2009, Lazar began to focus on the musical side of the project. The band is an Alternative hard rock /Death Pop band ( pop, metal, 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 and toured with rotating drummers and bass players, Future Hits 042 (2009). Thrash Hits. 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, Examiner.com(July 2010). Top Cow Productions. In the fall of 2011, at the San Diego Comic Con, MTV Geek Panel(2011). 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, David Hine has signed on as writer for the series.

In the early part of 2011, at the overwhelming request from their fans, Egert and Lazar started production on a full length album containing the first songs written by the band. "Melancholia" was released on Repo Records (Germany) on May 9, 2012, and features guest drummer Ryan Seaman of Falling In Reverse and bassist Phil Buckman of Filter. Lazar began working with producers Sahaj Ticotin from the band Ra (American band) and Mitchell Marlow formerly of the band Filter on new material for the upcoming releases associated with the MTV webisodes.

On July 17, 2012 September Mourning's song, "Before the Fall", (along with clips from their recent video for the song) was featured in the TNA Wrestling commercial for their Hardcore Justice PPV August 2012. The single was released to the iTunes Store and Spotify the following week.

In 2013 September Mourning played the Schecter Guitars Party at NAMM as well as many other shows in and around Los Angeles, CA. Lazar continued to develop the look and theatricality of the band as well as writing brand new material with a more developed sound. September Mourning played some one off shows in the California area while being shopped to labels.

Later in 2013 September Mourning was signed to Virgin Records which was announced on their Facebook page in early 2014. September Mourning recently took to the studio with Howard Benson to work on their major label debut record.

Band Members:
 * Emily Lazar, lead vocalist (2009–present)
 * Chris Egert, guitars, programming (2009–2011)
 * James Duran, guitars (2009–2010)
 * Steve Podgorski, guitars (2012-2013)
 * Nobuaki Hayashi (2012)
 * Jordan Dangerfield (2012-2013)
 * Skot Christ, bass guitar, backing vocals (2012-2013)
 * Shawn Cameron, drums (2012-2013)
 * Rich Juzwick, guitars (2014-present)
 * Xavier Moreux, guitars (2014-present)
 * Tommy Joe Ratliff, bass guitar (2014-present)
 * Jake Townsend, drums (2014-present)

Discography:
 * 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
 * 2011 - Mixing/Mastering Melancholia by Dave Ogilvie
 * 2012 - Melancholia Repo Records (Germany)
 * 2012 - Before the Fall iTunes Store Spotify

Tours: SongKick.com (2011)
 * Summer 2009 Hanzel Und Gretyl tour
 * Summer 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
 * Fall 2012 Gemini Syndrome Tour
 * Fall 2012 Get Scared Dead Rabbitts Rob the Cartel Tour

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
 * Aardschock (Netherlands)
 * Burn Magazine's premier reissue in the UK
 * Dark City (Russian)
 * Dark Spy (Germany)
 * Death And Taxes (United States)
 * DeVour Magazine (United States)
 * {http://www.gothic-magazine.de/ Gothic] (Germany)
 * Imagozine (Canada)
 * Metal Hammer (Spain)
 * Muen (United States)
 * Kerrang! Magazine (United States)
 * Orkus (Germany)
 * Outburn(United States)
 * Revolver Magazine(United States)
 * Rock Hard (Italy)
 * Side-Line (United States)
 * Sonic Seducer (Germany)
 * Strutter Rock Magazine
 * Synthesis Magazine (United States)
 * TV-Story (Germany)
 * Vice (United States)
 * YRB (United States)
 * Zillo (Germany)

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
 * Bare Bones Music (United States)
 * Battle Helm (United States)
 * Dagheisha (Italy)
 * Fantasy Seiten (Germany)
 * Female Fronted Rock Blog (United States)
 * Gooti (Finland)
 * Lords Of Metal (Netherlands)
 * Metal Wave (Italy)
 * Music Form (Netherlands)
 * New Adventures In HiFi (United States)
 * Power Metal (Italy)
 * Reflections Of Darkness (United States)
 * Rock Garage Blog (Germany)
 * Twilight Magazine (Germany)
 * Uber Rock (United Kingdom)
 * Zware Metalen (Netherlands)

Additional Media and Endorsements:
 * Schecter Guitars
 * Coffin Case
 * 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
 * Fernandes Guitars
 * 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).

Promotion and Interactions with fans

The band has an official website linking all their media outlets including Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instalgram. September Mourning's Official Website The posts were mainly published under the name of "September". Starting from 28 November 2013, most posts were updated by all members under the name of "September, Wraith, Twich, Riven and Shadou". Facebook post by all members The fans of the band are addressed by the nickname "Children of Fate", derived from one of their songs of the same name, released in 2011. September Mourning: "Children of Fate" (Demo) The band would collect fan art, namely paintings and tribute make up tutorials, and post them on their instagram and Facebook Page on a regular basis. ==References==


 * Top Cow Holiday Special Volume 1; December 2010 at the Comic Book DB
 * RVAFreaks; June 2010
 * / 10 questions with Emily Lazar*
 * RVAFreaks; June 2010
 * / 10 questions with Emily Lazar*
 * / 10 questions with Emily Lazar*
 * / 10 questions with Emily Lazar*

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