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Emily Lazar - (September Mourning)
February 8, 2018
SEPTEMBER MOURNING isn't like many bands out there today. They are a transmedia dark culture project. Transmedia is the technique of telling a single-story experience across multiple platforms. September Mourning does this through comic books, albums, videos, and live performances. By putting all these platforms together, you get the full story that is being told.

The story centers on September a human-grim reaper hybrid. She must dwell in both the world of the living and the dead, with her one crux being the empathy her human side feels, and she wants to give souls a second chance. September comes alive in most of the platforms by being portrayed by Emily Lazar.

Emily created the storyline of SEPTEMBER MOURNING and pitched it to Marc Silvestri at Top Cow Productions. From there the project took form and the band created a demo album called Melancholia. In 2014 they released the EP Volume I to coincide with the release of the first comic A Murder of Reapers. By 2016 September Mourning had signed with Sumerian Records and released a full-length album Volume II to coincide with the second issue of the comic. All the while the band has released a number of videos and toured.

What SEPTEMBER MOURNING accomplishes across the different media platforms isn't seen by many bands. You can listen to their albums while you read the coinciding comic and the lyrics are the words on the page. A fan can have the experience of the main character of the book narrating their story for them. Then at the live shows the image you see in the comic book is there in the flesh in front of you. The project has tapped into a market that few other bands can match.

Recently the band was going to tour several cities, but had to cancel when the headliner fell through. Metal Temple Editor Bradley Karr had a chance to interview Emily Lazar and asked her several questions about the project, the band, and where they go next.

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