Exhausted Prayer

Exhausted Prayer has been performing and recording extreme metal in the Los Angeles area since the Fall of 1999, when Heist (guitar/vocals) joined founding members Blake (bass/vocals), Mike (drums/vocals), and Swansong (guitar/vocals), thus solidifying the band's lineup. They released their first self-produced demo in 2000, Involutional Melancholia, which generated enthusiastic responses in widespread pockets of the underground. Over the next two years the band refined their unique harmonic intensity, compiling new material that eventually became 2002's What Completely is Not: a transfiguration of blackened death/thrash that continues to send shockwaves through the global metal scene, garnering positive reviews internationally, and earning radio and internet airplay worldwide, from Canada to Argentina, Spain to the Philippines.

Exhausted Prayer has performed persistently throughout Southern California in Los Angeles and San Diego counties, twice on LA radio station KXLU (88.9FM), at the infamous "November to Dismember" festival in San Bernardino, and south of the border at countless venues including the Hard Rock Café in Tijuana. Their new 5-song EP, Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow takes the group's signature brutal, melodic blasting towards more progressive horizons. To promote the release of their new album, a full West Coast tour is planned for June 2006. Based upon the success of the tour and the positive reception of the new album, Exhausted Prayer will undoubtedly continue to intensify their presence in an underground scene near you.

(Their audio samples don't work, here's a video link which might:
http://www.sunshowers.org/swansong/EP/grafx/LAParty.avi )