THANK YOU FOR BEING OUR RECORD LABEL. I have always liked building things differently. That is why I created September Mourning From the beginning, this was never supposed to be just another band. I was building the first female-led transmedia metal project of its kind: one continuous universe living across music, comic books, characters, visual art, and live performance. I wasn’t simply fronting a band. When I walked onstage, I embodied September—a human-Reaper hybrid whose story extended beyond the performance and onto the pages of a comic book created with Marc Silvestri and published through Top Cow and Image Comics. Before theatrical female-led metal became much more visible, we were already stepping onto stages as characters and bringing an entire fictional world to life. We didn’t look like the other bands around us because we weren’t trying to become another version of something that already existed. I wanted to build something I couldn’t find. That is what I have always done. I make things that don’t exist yet. The way we are funding the next evolution of September Mourning is simply another expression of that same instinct. We have experienced the traditional record-label model. Our last deal offered us less to create an entire record than this community has already helped us raise, along with their marketing and if we were lucky a radio campaign... and in exchange, they wanted our masters, pieces of our touring, and ownership in what we were building. So we chose to build differently again. Through Artizen, we’re using Web3 and blockchain infrastructure to connect our community directly with sponsor-backed matching funds from the broader worlds of technology, art, science, and culture. It gives creative projects another path—one that doesn’t begin and end with the traditional music industry. Because of you, we funded the next comic. Because of you, we funded Volume V. And because of you, we are moving toward bringing this next chapter of the Reaperverse back to the stage by fixing our touring vehicle! You are doing what record labels were originally supposed to do: making the art possible without taking ownership of the artists or the worlds they create. You have become the record label. To everyone who has contributed, collected an Artifact, shared the project, streamed the music, bought the comics, come to our shows, or simply believed in what we are building: thank you. We love you, we appreciate you, and we cannot wait to build the next chapter of September Mourning with all of you. If you would like to help and become part of our record label, you can find the project here: artizen.fund/index/p/septemb… If you already have, thank you for being the record label for us.