September Mourning

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September Mourning is a transmedia project whose storyline/idea began to form by 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).[1]Digital Media Wire

Emily Lazar
Emily Lazar September Mourning

In late 2009/ early 2010, Lazar began to focus on the musical side of the project. The band is a hard rock band with 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).[2]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).[3]Top Cow Productions. In the fall of 2011, at the San Diego Comic Con, MTV Geek Panel(2011).[4] 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.

Band Members:

  • Emily Lazar, lead vocalist (2009–present)
  • Chris Egert, guitars, programming ( 2009–2011)
  • James Duran, guitars (2009–2010)

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)[5]

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

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).

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2011/07/25/mtv-geek-and-top-cow-productions-blur-reality
  2. ↑ http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/09/future-hits-042-september-mourning/
  3. ↑ http://topcowblog.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
  4. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/videos/interview/670880/sdcc-2011-mtv-geek-panel-part-2-marc-silvestri-and-emily-lazar.jhtml MTV Geek
  5. ↑ http://www.songkick.com/artists/2377684-september-mourning/gigography
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