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

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, Massachusetts. He has been the drummer for the bands Shelter,

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, Good Clean Fun, Bloodhorse,

454 Big Block 454 Big Block was an American metalcore band from Boston. History 454 Big Block was formed by four members of the recently disbanded Boston Hardcore band Wrecking Crew. The last track of 454 Big Block's second (and final) album was a re-reco ...

, Saves The Day, Cold Cave, 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

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Touring band member

Alex Garcia-Rivera has been a touring drummer for the bands Shelter, Better Than a Thousand, Saves the Day,

Avoid One Thing Avoid One Thing is a punk band that started as a side project by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' bassist Joe Gittleman. The Boston, Massachusetts, Boston-based group's first album, titled ''Avoid One Thing (album), Avoid One Thing'', was released ...

, and Cold Cave.

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'' (2003, Equal Vision)

Bloodhorse

* ''Black Lung Rising'' (2006, self-released) * ''Bloodhorse'' (EP) (2007, Translation Loss) * '' Horizoner'' (2009, Translation Loss) * ''A Malign Star'' (2025,

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)

Confessions

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

As drum technician

* Mutoid Man - War Moans - Sargent House * Four Year Strong - ''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 ...

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

Madball Madball is an American New York hardcore band. Originated in the late 1980s as a side project of Agnostic Front, the band developed after Agnostic Front's vocalist Roger Miret would let his younger half-brother Freddy Cricien take the micro ...

– '' Look My Way'' –

Roadrunner Records Roadrunner Records is a Dutch–American record label focused on Heavy metal music, heavy metal and hard rock music. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City. Formerly seen as ...

* 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) In mathematics, a limit is the value that a function (or sequence) app ...

– ''No Heroes'' –

Epitaph Records Epitaph Records is an American independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. A large portion of the record label, known as Hellcat Records, is owned by Tim Armstrong, frontman of the punk rock band Rancid. Several ...

– ''Axe to Fall'' –

– ''All We Love We Leave Behind'' –

- ''The Dusk In Us'' -

Deathwish Inc. Deathwish Inc. is an American independent record label conceived by Jacob Bannon of Converge and Tre McCarthy in 2000. Their first release was '' Deeper the Wound'', a split album between Converge and Japanese band Hellchild on April 23, 2001. D ...

* The Hope Conspiracy – '' Death Knows Your Name'' –

* Coliseum – ''No Salvation'' –

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

* Animosity – ''Animal'' –

Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records (often shortened to Metal Blade) is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982 based in the U.S. state of California. The label primarily focuses on heavy metal. History Metal Blade Records was ...

– ''Accidental Gentleman'' – SideOneDummy Records * Clouds – ''We Are Above You'' – Hydra Head Records * Cruel Hand – ''Prying Eyes'' –

Bridge 9 Records Bridge 9 Records is an American hardcore record label located outside Beverly, Massachusetts. Bridge Nine is owned by Chris Wrenn of Salem, Massachusetts, who began the label in 1995 and produced its first release in 1996. In 2022, the label o ...

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– '' Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God'' –

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– '' Invasions of the Mind'' –

* Soul Control – ''Cycles'' –

* Verse – ''Aggression'' – Rivalry Records. *

Dead Swans Dead Swans is an English hardcore punk band from Brighton, formed in 2006. They released one album entitled ''Sleepwalkers'' in 2009, as well as three EPs; ''Southern Blue'' (2008), ''It's Starting'', (2009), and ''Anxiety and Everything Else'' ...

– ''Sleepwalkers'' –

High on Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for Sleep. High on Fire won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance with thei ...

– '' De Vermis Mysteriis'' –

E1 Music MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch"), formerly known as Koch Records and Entertainment One (eOne) Music/Records, is an American independent record label and music management company based in New York City. It was formed in 1987 as a music div ...

High On Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for Sleep. High on Fire won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance with thei ...

- Luminiferous -

Entertainment One Music MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch"), formerly known as Koch Records and Entertainment One (eOne) Music/Records, is an American independent record label and music management company based in New York City. It was formed in 1987 as a music div ...

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

As recording engineer/producer

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

Rise Records Rise Records is an American record label currently based in Beaverton, Oregon, mainly focusing on alternative rock, heavy metal, and punk rock music artists. History Rise was founded in 1991 by Craig Ericson in Nevada City, California. He relea ...

* Vundabar - ''Gawk'' * Ascend/Descend - ''Murdock Street'' - Dead Tank Records * Bloodhorse – ''EP'' – Translation Loss * Bloodhorse – '' Horizoner'' – Translation Loss * 108 – '' 18.61'' –

* Covey - ''Haggarty'' * Draize – ''Draize'' – Punks Before Profits * One Happy Island – Split 7" – Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation * 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 music distribution platform founded in 2008 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with an office and record store in Oakland, California. Acquired by Epic ...

Mystic Valley Studio
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