Prayers (band)

Prayers further expanded, collaborating with Christian Death, Pictureplane for The fifth album, "Chologoth - The Return Of Pluto" featured musicians Annie Hardy and Robert Harvey.

Prayers is the first musician/artist to use the term cholo goth[3] to define this genre of music which lyrically explores the harsh realities of gang and street life over throbbing beats and swirling synthesizers.

[5][4] Prior to forming Prayers, Reyes, who was born in Cotija, Michoacán and came to San Diego as a young child, had created two other bands, Baptism of Thieves and Vampire, and performed in a solo project, Nite Ritual.

Prayers' video "Dog to God" caught the eye of the Cult frontman Ian Astbury who requested the band open for them on their 2014 spring tour of California and Nevada.

[15][16] The third single and video from Young Gods, "Drugs," featuring Travis Barker and DJ Klever, departed from the black and white style; it was animated and directed by Dani Moreno Cordero.

[17] In anticipation of the 2016 Coachella show, Prayers released the single "Black Leather" featuring Kat Von D. The video was shot in both Los Angeles and San Diego, with Sherman gang members and Prayers' friends from the Southland goth scene, as well as Kat Von D. The single charted in Europe, knocking off Radiohead for the number one spot on Ausfahrt Indie Chart.

A documentary about the making of the EP, Beyond and Back, written and directed by Kenny Ochoa and Bryan Ray Turcotte and shot by Estevan Oriol and Ramez Silyan, was released on the same day.