September Mourning (Virgin Records album)

September Mourning is the first version of Volume I/Volume II recorded with Virgin Records through out 2014. It was planned to release in spring 2015 but for some reason it was cancelled. It features 12 tracks, most of which can be heard on Volume I and Volume II, but it also featured four songs that never appeared on any of their future albums. The album can be found on Archive.org. The album was mixed and mastered by Howard Benson with Chris Lord-Alge helping with the production. It was intended to be their US debut but since they signed out of Virgin Records the album was scraped and used as an audition to T-Boy Records.

## Background

In July of 2014 September Mourning released a new track called Superhuman, which was their first studio release after Before The Fall which was released two years before Superhuman. It featured more pop sounds than their previous releases and became popular on SoundCloud. In December that same year they released Children Of Fate. On a Ustream the band confirmed that they had a album completed and that it'll release soon, the band in the stream also stated that Skin And Bones was one of the tracks that would be featured on the album. The album then would be sent to T-Boy Records, a music label. As we can see from Volume I being released under T-Boy they were accepted into the label. The signing to T-Boy Records probably introduced them to a new producer which would scrap the more pop sound for something more heavy. In old articles about the band, five songs from the album are described (including Chariot and Paper Dolls which never released publicly). The person who picked up September to Virgin was sadly fired from the label and because of that the band and many others were dropped from the label.

## 2019 Internet Archive Resurface

In November of 2019, really close to the release of Volume III the album resurfaced online on a popular site called "Internet Archive" or "Archive.org". The album was posted to a restricted collection called "Audiophile CD Collection", in which full albums can't be distributed online and only 30 second samples are available for public. The album doesn't exist nowhere else online except for Archive.org, except for Superhuman and Children Of Fate versions which have been released publicly by September themselves in 2014.

## Trivia

* There are only 2 songs that were first featured on Volume I, while all songs that would later end up being exclusively on Volume II are on this demo album.
* Chariot, What Am I Fighting For, Heartstorm and Paper Dolls were all scraped at some point in the production and were later never mentioned or remastered for any future project.
* The Superhuman and Children Of Fate versions were released in late 2014 on Cryptic Rock and Loudwire respectively.
	+ Making them the only songs from the album to have full versions available publicly.
* These versions on the album are extremely different from the final ones on both Volume I and Volume II, noticeably featuring more pop sounds.
* Heartstorm is misspelled as "Hearthstorm" in the files.
* 'Til You See Heaven is spelled as "Til' You See Heaven" on this album.
* According to Rich, a version of The Collection was recorded with Howard Benson, most likely being made in the similar timeframe like this album.
* Two collaborations were planned.
* The album at some point had 13 tracks, not 12.
	+ The thirteenth track was most likely The Collection.

## Gallery

Official artworkBack of the CDUnedited artworkLogo from the artworkDisc
1. ↑ https://www.loudhailermagazine.com/interviews/interview-with-september-mournings-emily-lazar/