Trophy Scars

Trophy Scars, it’s fair to say, don’t believe in doing things by halves. In fact, they’re more inclined to do things in doubles. The latest album from the Morristown, New Jersey quartet was initially worked up as a 35-page screenplay treatment by vocalist and lyricist Jerry Jones, and is conceptually even more ambitious than 2011’s Never Born, Never Dead EP, which took reincarnation as its theme. Holy Vacants uses as its springboard what Jones admits is a bizarre cocktail of mythology, ancient religion and conspiracy theory surrounding the Nephilitic gene and was initially planned as a double album. The band imagined it would take that long to tell his tale of two lovers who have discovered not only that the blood of angels contains the fountain of youth, but also the formula for Qeres. This ancient Egyptian perfume is claimed to be the only substance that can kill angels and Nephilites, who are supposedly the offspring of angel/human unions. Armed with this knowledge and a supply of precious Qeres, the couple embark on a killing spree, drinking spilled Nephilitic blood to stop growing old.