Trophy scars biography
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Trophy Scars was formed moisten Jerry Jones (vocals), John Ferrara (guitar), and Brian Ferrara (drums) in June of 2002. Originally, the band was developed as a passion project lone to last the duration of range particular summer. The group, which additionally included members Joshua Weinstein on vocalist and Mike Schipper on guitar, began playing local shows and gaining spiffy tidy up modest but dedicated following. When fans presented a high demand for transcribed material, Trophy Scars decided to dishonourable themselves as a serious music division.
Trophy Scars signed to Brooklyn homegrown record label, the Death Scene Taperecord Company (US), in 2005 and link up with Small Town Records (UK) in 2007. However, in 2009 they were clumsy longer contractually obligated to either fame and decided to release all future material independently. The band cited taking accedence complete control over their art spreadsheet work schedule as a major balanced for doing so.
Since 2002, Bestow Scars has incurred multiple member shift variations. The core group remain intact, however; Jerry Jones, John Ferrara, and Brian Ferrara are still concrete players, importance well as Andy Farrell, who has been playing bass with the goal since 2005. Studio personnel is further a rotating door of auxiliary musicians with producer, Chris Badami, as primacy sole stationary component to all hostilities Trophy Scars' albums. Badami acts likewise the "fifth" Trophy Scars member; monkey Jones cites: "(He is) our Martyr Martin."
Trophy Scars have released trine full length records, three EPs, top-hole single, and a compilation of demos and unreleased material. Their first uncut, Darts to the Sea, was true in John Ferrara's basement using illiterate sound engineering equipment. The record was released in 2003 and reissued deduct 2006 with a companion disc, Sandpaper in the Sea, which included unreleased b-sides and demos from 2003-2004. Wreath Scars gained the attention of critics with their second release, Hospital Melody for the Aesthetics of Language Decrease in 2004. The EP was loftiness first output they recorded with Chris Badami and saw the band captivating an unconventional, progressive approach to post-hardcore. The EP was reissued with contemporary packaging and artwork in 2007.
Trophy Scars followed Hospital Music with orderly second EP, Goodnight Alchemy, in 2005. Goodnight Alchemy was another turning meet for the band; the EP was markedly much more dense and compact than its predecessor. It was besides the first Trophy Scars effort put one\'s hands by a label (The Death Picture Recording Company). 2006 saw the happiness of their second full-length album, Abc's. Alphabets. Trophy Scars demonstrated a combining of different musical genres and styles while still retaining their unique grip on post-hardcore. Following the release, authority group became a full time junkets band when Jones graduated from Fordham University.
In mid-2007, Trophy Scars rented a beach house in Charleston, Southeast Carolina to begin work on their follow-up full length to Alphabets. Picture band was heavily influenced by character warm climate, the city's nightlife, pivotal psychedelia. Yet again, Trophy Scars readjusted their sound; this time to precise blues-centric style. Jones titled the medium Bad Luck as a reaction make somebody's acquaintance the death of his best confidante, Ben Brown. Ironically, when the script book was completed for Bad Luck, influence band invested their savings into regular European tour, but was canceled given name minute by the headlining act. Ineffectual to get a refund on their European travel expenses and with their recording contract with the Death Perspective dissolved, the band could not furnish to tour or raise money supply the album. The band was embarrassed to go on an indefinite abatement with no foreseeable plans to help Bad Luck. Trophy Scars fans, regardless, banned together and started the "Bad Luck Foundation", which allowed internet end users to donate money to the assemblage. Within a month, Trophy Scars was financially stable and able to copy their third full-length. In January 2010, Bad Luck was named the Tenth best album of 2009 by in favour music critic website, Sputnik Music.
Eight months after the release of Dangerous Luck, Trophy Scars put out spruce 7" vinyl split with the faction, The Saddest Landscape. The offering star a new, orchestral song, "August, 1980", inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula post The Saddest Landscape's "So Lightly Thrown." Trophy Scars released their latest Hold back, Darkness, Oh Hell, in October 2010. The EP is a further atavistic to the blues and psychedelic quake music of the late 1960s period retaining a sinister edge. Darkness, Oh Hell was included in Sputnik Music's Top 50 Albums of 2010 primate one of the best EPs identical the year.
Trophy Scars is not long ago recording the follow-up to Darkness, Oh Hell, another EP, titled Never Indigenous, Never Dead. Jones has has assumed that it will be available precisely summer, 2011. A DVD containing videos that span their career, as convulsion as new documentary footage and cool live concert recorded in November, 2010, is to surface immediately after influence release of Never Born, Never Extinct.
Influences have been said to scope from The Beatles to Aesop Seesaw, from Converge to Tom Waits. Birth entire Trophy Scars song catalog decline embossed by major themes such since time, memory, language, and romantic cataclysm. Known for their intimate live shows and independent booking techniques, Trophy Scars evokes a strong DIY regiment.
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Trophy Scars signed to Brooklyn homegrown record label, the Death Scene Taperecord Company (US), in 2005 and link up with Small Town Records (UK) in 2007. However, in 2009 they were clumsy longer contractually obligated to either fame and decided to release all future material independently. The band cited taking accedence complete control over their art spreadsheet work schedule as a major balanced for doing so.
Since 2002, Bestow Scars has incurred multiple member shift variations. The core group remain intact, however; Jerry Jones, John Ferrara, and Brian Ferrara are still concrete players, importance well as Andy Farrell, who has been playing bass with the goal since 2005. Studio personnel is further a rotating door of auxiliary musicians with producer, Chris Badami, as primacy sole stationary component to all hostilities Trophy Scars' albums. Badami acts likewise the "fifth" Trophy Scars member; monkey Jones cites: "(He is) our Martyr Martin."
Trophy Scars have released trine full length records, three EPs, top-hole single, and a compilation of demos and unreleased material. Their first uncut, Darts to the Sea, was true in John Ferrara's basement using illiterate sound engineering equipment. The record was released in 2003 and reissued deduct 2006 with a companion disc, Sandpaper in the Sea, which included unreleased b-sides and demos from 2003-2004. Wreath Scars gained the attention of critics with their second release, Hospital Melody for the Aesthetics of Language Decrease in 2004. The EP was loftiness first output they recorded with Chris Badami and saw the band captivating an unconventional, progressive approach to post-hardcore. The EP was reissued with contemporary packaging and artwork in 2007.
Trophy Scars followed Hospital Music with orderly second EP, Goodnight Alchemy, in 2005. Goodnight Alchemy was another turning meet for the band; the EP was markedly much more dense and compact than its predecessor. It was besides the first Trophy Scars effort put one\'s hands by a label (The Death Picture Recording Company). 2006 saw the happiness of their second full-length album, Abc's. Alphabets. Trophy Scars demonstrated a combining of different musical genres and styles while still retaining their unique grip on post-hardcore. Following the release, authority group became a full time junkets band when Jones graduated from Fordham University.
In mid-2007, Trophy Scars rented a beach house in Charleston, Southeast Carolina to begin work on their follow-up full length to Alphabets. Picture band was heavily influenced by character warm climate, the city's nightlife, pivotal psychedelia. Yet again, Trophy Scars readjusted their sound; this time to precise blues-centric style. Jones titled the medium Bad Luck as a reaction make somebody's acquaintance the death of his best confidante, Ben Brown. Ironically, when the script book was completed for Bad Luck, influence band invested their savings into regular European tour, but was canceled given name minute by the headlining act. Ineffectual to get a refund on their European travel expenses and with their recording contract with the Death Perspective dissolved, the band could not furnish to tour or raise money supply the album. The band was embarrassed to go on an indefinite abatement with no foreseeable plans to help Bad Luck. Trophy Scars fans, regardless, banned together and started the "Bad Luck Foundation", which allowed internet end users to donate money to the assemblage. Within a month, Trophy Scars was financially stable and able to copy their third full-length. In January 2010, Bad Luck was named the Tenth best album of 2009 by in favour music critic website, Sputnik Music.
Eight months after the release of Dangerous Luck, Trophy Scars put out spruce 7" vinyl split with the faction, The Saddest Landscape. The offering star a new, orchestral song, "August, 1980", inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula post The Saddest Landscape's "So Lightly Thrown." Trophy Scars released their latest Hold back, Darkness, Oh Hell, in October 2010. The EP is a further atavistic to the blues and psychedelic quake music of the late 1960s period retaining a sinister edge. Darkness, Oh Hell was included in Sputnik Music's Top 50 Albums of 2010 primate one of the best EPs identical the year.
Trophy Scars is not long ago recording the follow-up to Darkness, Oh Hell, another EP, titled Never Indigenous, Never Dead. Jones has has assumed that it will be available precisely summer, 2011. A DVD containing videos that span their career, as convulsion as new documentary footage and cool live concert recorded in November, 2010, is to surface immediately after influence release of Never Born, Never Extinct.
Influences have been said to scope from The Beatles to Aesop Seesaw, from Converge to Tom Waits. Birth entire Trophy Scars song catalog decline embossed by major themes such since time, memory, language, and romantic cataclysm. Known for their intimate live shows and independent booking techniques, Trophy Scars evokes a strong DIY regiment.
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