Pittsburgh, PA- A lovely spring night, an impeccable metal performance, and a venue with a name that is infamous around the world equals perfection. September Mourning took control of the Hard Rock Café Pittsburgh stage as soon as they stepped onto that stage. This might be a mid-week performance on a Wednesday night, but it is one that made wonderful memories on a nice spring night in 2023.
September Mourning is a metal band with a story and a stage presence that is uniquely their own. Their performances have impressed metal fans for years. The concept of the band is one which is a signature of complete creativity and a love of music and theater. September Mourning is a metal band with energy on another spectrum when they are on any stage performing. The vocalist Emily Lazar, who is the character September, is also joined on stage by the band who are the reapers. The reapers are guitarist and bassist Rich Juzwick , Kyle Mayer on drums, and guitarist Aaron Hoover.
During tonight’s performance, there was good audience participation during the show. September/Emily went back to pound on the symbol of the drumkit during the song Mausoleum. September Mourning is enthusiastic and has a lot of fun on stage. Rich Juzwick and Aaron Hoover are always moving and Rich Juzwick has a jump that can rival Steve Aoki. In fact, a contest between the two to see who can jump higher would be fun. Emily Lazar can be a Headbanging Goddess who holds the crowd in her hands as her character September. The performance was wonderful and full of energy.
Emily Lazar has a good description of September Mourning, “Rich and Aaron (Shadow and Riven) and Kyle kind of does his own thing, he is kind of his own character in the background and then Rich and Aaron kind of like have this weird symbiotic sort of like movement style so they are like constantly switching places and Rich jumps consistently all the time like that is kind of his thing he is the jumping one like which sort of goes with his character you know like in the comic book and stuff and so you know everyone sort of has their little character traits. But they don’t affect me. I just kind of do my own thing and they’ll come up and play with me and do certain things to do something occasionally, but we each have our own, I think they work together more than I work with them. I kind of do my own thing and then they work together in tandem and then Kyle/Stitch kind of does his own thing now it’s often that I will go back to the drum kit, and I will like to beat on the drums or symbol and stuff like that as I did during Mausoleum tonight.”
September Mourning is a metal band with excellent musicians, excellent vocalists, and wonderful lyrics which depicts a storyline and is talented and beyond. When seeing a live band have fun on stage and enjoy themselves that is the best kind of band to see live.
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