Alex Garcia-Rivera is an American rock drummer, drum-tech and recording engineer from

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

, Massachusetts. He has been the drummer for the bands

Shelter Shelter is a small building giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger. Shelter may also refer to: Places * Port Shelter, Hong Kong * Shelter Bay (disambiguation), various locations * Shelter Cove (disambiguation), various locatio ...

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, Good Clean Fun, Bloodhorse, 454 Big Block,

Saves The Day Saves the Day is an American Rock music, rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1997. The band currently consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, and bassist Rodrigo Palma. After forming under the nam ...

Cold Cave Cold Cave is the moniker for the music of Wesley Eisold, described as a "collage of darkwave, noise, and synthpop." A number of reviewers note the affinity with early 1980s post-punk and early synthpop, in particular Joy Division and New Orde ...

, but is best known as the drummer for hardcore/punk band American Nightmare. He also performs all instruments in a solo band under the moniker Chrome Over Brass and owns and operates Mystic Valley Studio, an all-analog recording studio in

Medford, Massachusetts Medford is a city northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus alo ...

Touring band member

Alex Garcia-Rivera has been a touring drummer for the bands

Better Than A Thousand Better Than a Thousand was an American hardcore band featuring former Youth of Today singer Ray Cappo, Graham Land and Ken Olden of Battery fame. It was a side project of Shelter Shelter is a small building giving temporary protection from ...

, Avoid One Thing, and

Discography

American Nightmare

* ''American Nightmare'' (2018, Rise Records) * ''We're Down Til We're Underground'' (2003, Equal Vision Records)

Chrome Over Brass

* ''16 Tracks of Feedback'' (EP) (2013) * "Stukas in the Wind" (single) (2014) * "Teenage Depression" (single) (2015) * ''Chrome Over Brass'' (2015) * ''Soulstice'' (single) (2016)

Ascend/Descend

* ''Murdock Street'' (2016) * ''Molt'' (single) (2017)

Kingpin

* ''Holding Tomorrow'' (EP) (1991, Suburban Voice)

454 Big Block

* ''Save Me from Myself'' (1998, Big Wheel Recreation)

Get High

* ''Get High'' (1999, Big Wheel Recreation) * ''II'' (1999, self-released)

Piebald

* ''The Rock Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' (2000, Big Wheel Recreation) * ''Barely Legal/All Ages'' (2001, Big Wheel Recreation)

Good Clean Fun

* ''Straight Outta Hardcore'' (2001, Phyte/Reflections/Defiance)

Never Surrender

* ''Never Surrender'' (EP) (2003, Fight Fire with Fire)

Face the Enemy

* ''These Two Words'' (2003, Defiance)

Give Up the Ghost

* ''

We're Down Til We're Underground ''We're Down Til We're Underground'' is the second studio album by the American hardcore band Give Up the Ghost. The album was released on September 23, 2003 through Equal Vision Records Equal Vision Records is an independent record label bas ...

'' (2003, Equal Vision)

Bloodhorse

* ''Black Lung Rising'' (2006, self-released) * ''Bloodhorse'' (EP) (2007, Translation Loss) * '' Horizoner'' (2009, Translation Loss)

Confessions

* ''Your Girl'' (EP) (2013, Vanya)

As drum technician

Mutoid Man Mutoid Man is an American heavy metal band formed in 2012 in Brooklyn, New York City by Cave In vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky, Converge drummer Ben Koller and bassist Nick Cageao (with High on Fire bassist Jeff Matz replacing Cageao in 202 ...

War Moans ''War Moans'' is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Mutoid Man, released on June 20, 2017 through Sargent House. Track listing Personnel Mutoid Man *Stephen Brodsky - Lead vocals, guitar, additional engineering *Nick Cagea ...

Sargent House Sargent House is an American management company and record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in June 2006 by Cathy Pellow, who is a music video commissioner for Atlantic Records and also owns a music video production company called Ref ...

Four Year Strong Four Year Strong is an American pop punk band from Worcester, Massachusetts, formed in 2001. The group consists of vocalists and guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss, and drummer Jake Massucco. They have released seven studio al ...

- ''Four Year Strong'' -

Pure Noise Records Pure Noise Records is an American punk rock record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded by Jake Round in 2009 while he was an editor at ''AMP''; the previous fall, friends of his in the band No Bragging Rights told him they were l ...

* Jejune – ''This Afternoons Malady'' – Big Wheel Recreation *

Madball Madball is an American New York hardcore band formed in New York City, that originated in the late 1980s as a side project of Agnostic Front. The band developed after Agnostic Front's front man Roger Miret would let his younger half-brother Fr ...

– '' Look My Way'' –

Roadrunner Records Roadrunner Records is an American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock bands. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City. History The label was launched in 1980 in t ...

* In My Eyes – '' Nothing To Hide'' –

Revelation Records Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side, Chain of Strength, Sh ...

Converge Converge may refer to: * Converge (band), American hardcore punk band * Converge (Baptist denomination), American national evangelical Baptist body * Limit (mathematics) * Converge ICT, internet service provider in the Philippines *CONVERGE CFD s ...

– ''No Heroes'' –

Epitaph Records Epitaph Records is an American independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most acts signed to the label were punk and pop punk acts, while there are many post-hardcore and emo bands ...

– ''Axe to Fall'' –

– ''All We Love We Leave Behind'' –

- ''The Dusk In Us'' -

, Deathwish Inc. *

The Hope Conspiracy The Hope Conspiracy is an American hardcore punk band from Boston formed in late 1999. They were picked up by Equal Vision Records and Bridge 9 Records before signing a deal with Deathwish Records. Biography With the help of Mark Thompson of ...

– '' Death Knows Your Name'' – Deathwish Inc. *

Coliseum The Colosseum ( ; it, Colosseo ) is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world t ...

– ''No Salvation'' –

Relapse Records Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features many grindcore, death metal, metalcore and sludge metal artists. History The label was ...

Animosity Animosity may refer to: * ''Animosity'' (comic), an American comic book series published by AfterShock Comics *Animosity (band) Animosity was an American death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2000. The band released three ...

– ''Animal'' –

Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The US office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distrib ...

– ''Accidental Gentleman'' –

SideOneDummy Records SideOneDummy Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1995 by Bill Armstrong and Joe Sib. The label began as a way for them to release music for their friends' bands. Thereafter SideOneDummy launched the care ...

* Clouds – ''We Are Above You'' –

Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records was an independent record label that specializes in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. It had another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialized in experiment ...

Cruel Hand Cruel Hand is an American hardcore punk band from Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine that formed in 2006. As of 2013, Cruel Hand has released four full-length albums: ''Without a Pulse'' on 6131 Records, ''Prying Eyes'' and ''Lock & Key (album), L ...

– ''Prying Eyes'' –

Bridge 9 Records Bridge 9 Records is an American hardcore punk record label located outside Boston, Massachusetts. Bridge Nine is owned by Chris Wrenn of Salem, Massachusetts, who began the label in 1995 and produced its first release in 1996. The label is name ...

Blacklisted Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list. If someone is on a blacklist, t ...

– '' Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God'' – Deathwish Inc. *

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat a ...

– '' Invasions of the Mind'' –

* Soul Control – ''Cycles'' –

Verse Verse may refer to: Poetry * Verse, an occasional synonym for poetry * Verse, a metrical structure, a stanza * Blank verse, a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme * Free verse, a type of poetry written without the use of strict me ...

– ''Aggression'' – Rivalry Records. * Dead Swans – ''Sleepwalkers'' –

High on Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1999. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for doom metal band Sleep. High on Fire won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Per ...

– ''

De Vermis Mysteriis ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', or ''Mysteries of the Worm'', is a fictional grimoire created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos. Creation Ludvig Prinn's ''Mysteries of the Worm'' first appeared in ...

'' –

E1 Music MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had b ...

High On Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1999. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for doom metal band Sleep. High on Fire won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Per ...

- Luminiferous -

Entertainment One Music MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had b ...

Beastmilk Grave Pleasures is a Finnish post-punk band from Helsinki. Formed in 2010, Grave Pleasure's previous incarnation, Beastmilk, released a demo followed by an EP, and later debut full-length ''Climax''. Members Mat McNerney and Valtteri Arino contin ...

– ''Climax'' *

Vallenfyre Vallenfyre was a British death metal band founded in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, as a side project by Paradise Lost's chief songwriter and lead guitarist Gregor Mackintosh in 2010 as tribute to his father's death in December 2009. Valle ...

– ''Splinters'' * Mountain Man - "TWO" - No Sleep Records

As recording engineer/producer

* American Nightmare (band) - ''American Nightmare'' - Rise Records *

Vundabar Vundabar is an American indie rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of Brandon Hagen (vocals, guitar), Drew McDonald (drums, synthesizer), and Zack Abramo (bass). Vundabar released their first full-length album in 2013 titled '' ...

- ''Gawk'' * Ascend/Descend - ''Murdock Street'' - Dead Tank Records * Bloodhorse – ''EP'' – Translation Loss * Bloodhorse – '' Horizoner'' – Translation Loss *

108 108 may refer to: * 108 (number) * AD 108, a year * 108 BC, a year * 108 (artist) (born 1978), Italian street artist * 108 (band), an American hardcore band * 108 (emergency telephone number), an emergency telephone number in several states in Ind ...

– '' 18.61'' – Deathwish Inc. * Covey - ''Haggarty'' * Draize – ''Draize'' – Punks Before Profits * One Happy Island – Split 7" –

Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation, or Thee SPC, is an independent record label based in Sheffield, UK. It is one of the most influential labels in the Yorkshire area, having given early breaks and support to many bands in the so-called Ne ...

* Mountain Man – ''Grief'' – Think Fast! Records * Cerce – ''Cerce'' – It's A Trap! Records / Solidarity Recordings * Native Wildlife – ''A Simple Life, A Quiet Mind'' * Obsidian Tongue – ''Volume I: Subradiant Architecture'' * Obsidian Tongue – ''A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time'' – Hypnotic Dirge Records * Lovechild – ''Demonstration'' * No Flowers – ''EP One'' * No Flowers – ''EP Two'' * No Flowers – ''EP Three'' * Dave Austin and the Sound – ''The Revival'' * Wormwood – ''Wormwood'' * CAZADOR — ''Broken Sun'' * Covey - ''Haggarty'' * The Oracle - Book I - End Result Productions

References

External links

Chrome Over Brass
on Facebook
Chrome Over Brass
on

Bandcamp Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California, US. On March 2, 2022, Bandcamp ...

Mystic Valley Studio
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