Which Los Angeles based post-metal ban was an influence on the Australian band Cog?
Isis
Title: Luke Gower
Passage: Luke Gower (born in Sydney, Australia) was a member of the Australian band Cog.  He plays bass, and sings background vocals.  Luke's brother Flynn Gower is the lead singer and guitarist in Cog.
Title: Open Up (Cog song)
Passage: "Open Up" is a maxi single released by the Australian rock band Cog in March 2003.  It contains a cover of the Public Image Limited/Leftfield track "Open Up", a two and a half minute extension of the track, full length versions of tracks that appeared, edited, on previous releases, and a remix of "Open Up" by producer Sean Boucher and DJ, DJ Silk.  This is the first release that Luke Gower played on.
Title: Cog (band)
Passage: Cog are an Australian progressive rock band that formed in 1998.  Their debut album, "The New Normal", was nominated for Triple J's 2005 J Award.  The band's music is influenced by Tool, Isis, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Brett Student, Leftfield, Deftones and Helmet.  The band went on to become one of the most successful independent bands in Australia.
Title: The New Normal (album)
Passage: The New Normal is the first studio album by Australian rock band Cog, released on April 12, 2005 by Difrnt Music.  The album was produced in Weed, California by Sylvia Massy (Tool, System of a Down, Spiderbait).  "The New Normal" was made the album of the week on Triple J, and nominated for the 2005 J Award.  The album peaked at number 19 on the Australian Recording Industry Association album chart.
Title: Lucius Borich
Passage: Lucius Borich (born 1971) is an Australian musician, best known as the former drummer for the band Cog, and previously the drummer in funk metal band Juice and in The Hanging Tree as well as Floating Me.  He currently plays and is working on new rock outfit The Nerve.
Title: Flynn Gower
Passage: Flynn Gower (born.  1972) is an Australian vocalist, composer and guitarist, currently the frontman of The Occupants.  He is best known as frontman of the rock band Cog, which disbanded in 2010.  He was also a guitarist in now-defunct funk metal band The Hanging Tree.
Title: Isis (band)
Passage: Isis (sometimes stylized ISIS) was an American post-metal band founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997 but later based in Los Angeles, California.  They borrowed from and helped to evolve a sound pioneered by bands such as Neurosis and Godflesh.  This sound, influenced by heavy metal, consists of lengthy songs focusing on repetition and evolution of structure.  Isis's last studio album, "Wavering Radiant", was released on 5 May 2009.  They disbanded in June 2010, just before the release of a split EP with the Melvins.
Title: Panopticon (album)
Passage: Panopticon is the third full-length album by Los Angeles, California based post-metal band ISIS, released by Ipecac Recordings in 2004.  The album's title is derived from philosopher Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison ideal and philosopher/historian Michel Foucault's later allegorical appropriation of the concept.  The liner notes also include quotes from technology writer Howard Rheingold and futurist Alex Steffen; as a concept album, "Panopticon"'s focus is on the proliferation of surveillance technologies throughout modern society and the government's role in that spread.
Title: Sharing Space
Passage: Sharing Space is the second full-length album by Australian rock band Cog, released on 12 April 2008.  The album was, once again, produced by Sylvia Massy in Weed, California.  The album peaked at number 2 on the Australian Recording Industry Association album chart.
Title: Run (Cog song)
Passage: "Run" is a single released by the Australian rock band Cog in August 2005.  It is the only CD single to be lifted from the album "The New Normal".  It contains a radio edit of "Run", an edited live version of "Run", a live version of "Silence is Violence" both recorded at Canberra's ANU Bar on 28 April 2005 and the "My Enemy" video clip.  The single peaked at #5 in the Australian Independent Recordings singles/EPs chart.
Isis (band) Cog (band)