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Grave Forsaken is Vaughan Gregory, Elias Salmela, Matt Skipworth and TIm Steadman. These four guys all met each other through playing in various amatuer Christian metal bands. The band was formed in September 2004 when circumstances led the four guys to play a few songs at an event called "Fusion Idol" at Hillside Church in Western Australia. The performance was so much fun, and the guys worked so well together, that they decided to make a go of it as a proper band.

Grave Forsaken was intent to pursue evanagelical outreach as their main focus. The first step was to improve their live playing ability. The band entered a couple of talent quest type events in late 2004 and did reasonably well for a new band. They played a couple of shows at All Saints Anglican in Kwinana, WA and went into 2005 with a goal to produce a demo and play some more shows.

The guys spent the first couple of months of 2005 doing the demo, and self released it to a postive response in May. Around this time they played a few church gigs and set about planning for the debut album.

Work was undertaken on the debut album in September 2005 under the guidance of friend Ben Travia. After a year of hard work and fine tuning, the album was released in September 2006 at the Blackstump Festival, almost a year to the day after beginning work. The album received critical praise and is set to become a Christan Thrash/Death classic in years to come.

Grave Forsaken had a very successful 2006. They opened for Mortification on the August Perth tour and then headed to NSW to play alongside Paramaecium, Synnove and Fearscape at the Blackstump Festival.

2007 saw the band continue to play further gigs around Perth, including the support slot for American band Death and Desire. Another trip over east to Blackstump and a Melbourne show with Mortication and Fearscape are further highlights of a great year.

Grave Forsaken plan to release the follow up album to "Beside The River Of Blood" in 2008. The metal mission is set to continue!