September Mourning (Band)

September Mourning is a heavy metal, female fronted band that incorporates transmedia dark culture elements into it's story and albums. The band officialy formed in early 2009 where they published music on MySpace. As of right now, they have released two full length studio albums, two EPs and one full length studio album in the works.

## History

### Early demos and Melancholia (2009 - 2012)

Emily, through MySpace, pitched a transmedia project to Marc Silvestri that would involve a musical part, a comic book part, and more. Emily came up with the concept of September Mourning in 2009. The band was writing some demos at the time, including Crimson Skies and Lost Angels. In late 2010 the band starting doing shows and was picked up to tour with people and bands like Marilyn Manson and The Birthday Massacre. This would get the band more recognition by the public, as they wrote even more demos for their songs. In 2011 the band would start working on a full demo album Melancholia which would include most of their previous demos. In April of 2012 the band released the first finished song from the album, Lost Angels and also an album teaser. In May they signed a deal with Repo Records to release the demo album exclusively in Germany. Later that year they would release a demo for their new song Before The Fall which would be featured on Hardcore Justice. The video currently sits at almost 2 million views on YouTube. Another full demo would come out for Eye Of The Storm as well.

### Band development and signing to Virgin Records (2013 - 2014)

Through out 2013 the band would focus more on writing new songs and would take a hiatus on releasing music. In 2014 the band signed into Virgin Records with whom they would start working on their full length US debut album. The band also took a lot of promotional photoshoots, most of which would become recognizable and used in a lot of promo material. In July they finally released a song called Superhuman through SoundCloud and download through their official website. The song was co-written by Kane Churko and featured more pop sounds unlike their demos and Melancholia. In December the band finished the works on the album, produced by Howard Benson and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. That same month they released Children Of Fate through Loudwire. The full length was scheduled to release in early 2015 but in the end Virgin folded into Capitol and released most all of their signed artists from their contracts.

### Volume I (2015)

After signing out of Virgin Records the band would sign into a new record label T-Boy Records. In May, as a homage to the late Ben E. King, they would release a cover of his most popular and iconic song Stand By Me. Later that same month the band would put Children Of Fate on Spotify as a single. The band began production on their debut EP Volume I with Sahaj Ticotin. The band started a Kickstarter for their EP. The Kickstarter reached its goal in under 72 hours. In September the band would premiere a lyric video for the song Eye Of The Storm from the EP. On October 2 the band finally released their debut EP Volume I along with a comic book entitled A Murder of Reapers. Over next few years, 3 more comic books would be published through Top Cow/ Image Comics and a graphic novel of all four books as well called "September Mourning: The Complete Collection" .Included on the EP were two never heard before songs The Collection and Angels To Dust along with the three singles they released that year Children Of Fate, Stand By Me and Eye Of The Storm and a remastered version of one of their most recognizable songs/demos Before The Fall.

### Signing to Sumerian Records and Volume II (2016 - 2017)

In March of 2016 the band signed into Sumerian Records and began the production for their debut full length. That same month the band released the first single from the album Eye Of The Storm, which would become really succesfull and even chart. In July they released the second single from the album Skin And Bones along with a lyric video. That same month the band finally released the full length, which would include all six tracks from Volume I remastered, and six new songs, one of which is Superhuman which released in 2014, which were supposed to be on their debut with Virgin but since the cancellation of the album the band has been performing these songs live through out 2015, these songs are Skin And Bones, 20 Below, Heart Can Hold, Superhuman, Live Like You're Alive and 'Til You See Heaven. The band would tour a lot to support the release as well as starting filming new music videos. In early 2017 20 Below released as a single along with a music video. Later that year 'Til You See Heaven would also release as a single, being accompanied by a music video.

### Becoming independent and Volume III (2018 - 2020)

After the release of Volume II two years prior the band finally started working on another album. In October the band released a new single called Empire along with a comic book Trinity. To promote the release, the band held a remix contest for the song which was won by Nick Scott. In December another single was released called Glass Animals. Sometime in 2019 the band became independent, and because of that the two previously released single could not be included on the final album. In July the band released Unholy, the lead single from the new EP. The music video was a compilation of the band previous live performance footage. In September Hiding from Heaven released, with a music video in a comic book style. In December Overdose released two days before the release of the EP. On December 13 the EP Volume III finally released, being in the works since 2018 and going through many changes. The songs included on the EP were Unholy, Hiding from Heaven, Madness and Overdose. In April of 2020 the music video released for Madness, concluding the Volume III music video storyline.

### Volume IV and NFT's (2020 - 2021)

In 2020 the band couldn't tour or perform live at all because of the pandemic. Emily became very involved in the crypto/ NFT movement and became the First female hard rock/ metal musician to mint and sell an NFT. Since then she has sold out multiple projects across 9 different chains, spoken at Harvard, Eth Denver, NFT NYC, Art Basil and more conferences about how NFT's empower the independent artist. She is considered a thought leader in the space and an innovator. Through out 2020 the band began recording for their next full length album. Later that year they announced the release of their new single Wake The Dead which will be the lead single from Volume IV. The single released in December and was their most popular release up to that point. After the release of Wake The Dead Rich revealed more about the album on a Facebook live. The album is set to include 11 tracks, including one cover, and that there'll be two more singles after that. In February the next single released called Kill This Love. Most of the new music written for Volume IV was first released through nfts before hitting the regualr streaming platforms. The band has seen significant growth over 2021-2023 because of NFT's and is considered a pioneer in rock music with how they integrate the nfts into their live performances.

## Discography

For the band's full discography go to Discography.

* 2012: Melancholia
* 2016: Volume II
* 2021: Volume IV