Raymond Herrera is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known as the former drummer and founding member of the heavy metal band

Fear Factory Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...

. He is the former drummer for his previous band

Brujeria Various types of witchcraft and occult religious practices exist in Latin American and Afro-Caribbean cultures, known in Spanish as (pronounced ). Influenced by indigenous religion, Catholicism, and European witchcraft, the purpose may range ...

and for industrial metal band

Arkaea Arkaea was a metal band formed in 2008 featuring members from Fear Factory and Threat Signal. History The band was formed by Raymond Herrera (drums) and Christian Olde Wolbers (guitar), who had just left Fear Factory. They recorded a demo, se ...

. He is a composer and producer of music for video games, television, feature films, and transmedia.

Career

His commercial album debut was

's ''

Soul of a New Machine ''Soul of a New Machine'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory, released on August 25, 1992 by Roadrunner Records. Although this record was Fear Factory's first studio album to be released, it was actually their ...

'' in 1992. The band soon began a nearly two decade long recording and touring schedule including more than twelve commercial album releases and numerous world tours. He is known for his high speed playing, particularly his "stop go" double bass technique rather than the usual "flooring face" style. In 1996, Herrera started to secure music licensing of Fear Factory's music for dozens of video games. He started Herrera Productions (renamed 3volution Productions in 2003) and worked as composer-producer on numerous video games. This includes the first two ''

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'', '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown'', '' Scarface: The World is Yours'', and ''

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''. In 2006, Herrera started the recording studio Temple Studios LLC and co-created the beverage company Redux Beverages LLC. In 2008, he played drums with Arkaea, including former Fear Factory band member

Christian Olde Wolbers Christian Olde Wolbers (born 5 August 1972) is a Belgian musician, songwriter, and producer who is the bassist and backing vocalist of the heavy metal band Powerflo. He is the former bassist, guitarist and backing vocalist of the heavy metal b ...

, and Jon Howard and Pat Kavanagh from Threat Signal. The band released the album ''Years in the Darkness''. In 2009, he started Alt-Strum Productions (ASP). In 2010, he co-created Freedom To Rock, a 501c3 non-profit organization, and is on the board of directors. In 2011–2012, Herrera worked with Power A to help develop the FUS1ON Gaming controller. In 2013 Raymond joined Capital Source Network (CSN), a company Raymond helped create. Capital Source Network is a beverage industry one-stop shop, specializing in brokering, test marketing, distribution and financial services. CSN represents a wide variety of brands, from vitamin enhanced waters to energy supplements. The company has offices in California, Indiana and Michigan. In 2015 Raymond started 3volution Organics with his wife Paula Herrera. The company specializes in organic products in the natural industry. The company started in the west coast region of California. The company became a national broker in 2017 and has expanded into E-Commerce and international Brick and Mortar and international E-commerce in early 2021. https://3volutionorganics.net/

Games

Discography

With Fear Factory

* ''

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'' (recorded in 1991 and released on July 30, 2002) * ''

'' (1992) * '' Demanufacture'' (1995) * ''

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'' (1998) * '' Digimortal'' (2001) * ''

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'' (2004) * '' Transgression'' (2005)

With Brujeria

* ''

Matando Güeros ''Matando Güeros'' (Killing '' Güeros'') is the debut album by the band Brujeria. "Güero" is a Mexican-Spanish slang term for a blonde or light skinned/haired person. The album talks mostly about controversial topics in Mexico like drug traff ...

'' (1993) * ''

Raza Odiada ''Raza Odiada'' ( en, Hated Race) is the second album by Brujeria. Brujeria's main concepts are Satanism, revolution, pro-immigration, narcotics and drug smuggling, and related themes. Album information ''Raza Odiada'' (which translates in Engl ...

'' (1995) * '' Brujerizmo'' (2000)

With Asesino

* ''

Corridos de Muerte ''Corridos de Muerte'' (Tales of Death) is the debut album by deathgrind band Asesino, first released in 2002. It was re-released in 2005 with a bonus DVD. The opening sample of "Asesino" comes from the Spanish movie The Day of the Beast, while ...

'' (2002)

With Phobia

* ''Return to Desolation'' (1994)

With Arkaea

* ''

Years in the Darkness ''Years in the Darkness'' is the first album by metal band Arkaea. It was released on July 14, 2009. A music video for the track "Locust" was made. The album charted at No. 39 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart with approximately 980 copies sold ...

'' (2009)

Equipment & Endorsements

Pro-mark Promark is a Houston, Texas-based American drum stick company. Since 2011, it is part of strings company D'Addario. Promark is a widely known stick company generally played in drum set, drum and bugle corps and concert bands. History Promark was ...

drum sticks *

Zildjian :''Zildjian leads here. For people with the surname, see Zildjian (disambiguation)'' The Avedis Zildjian Company, simply known as Zildjian (), is a musical instrument manufacturer specializing in cymbals and other percussion instruments. Founded ...

cymbals *DW pedals (5000 series) *Attack drum heads *

Tama Drums Tama Drums, (from Japanese: (Kanji), (Kana), read as ) is a brand of drum kits and hardware manufactured and marketed by the Japanese musical instrument company, Hoshino Gakki. Tama's research and development of products, along with producti ...

Power Tower custom rack system, Tama hardware including Wide Rider drum throne, two DW5000 bass drum pedals, Attack drum heads, ddrum4 triggers, Korg D1200 studio and Pro-Mark 5A Oakwood nylon tip sticks. More details about his drum setup available.

References

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