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Also known as
  
Chrome Over Brass

Instruments
  
Drum kit


Name
  
Alex Garcia-Rivera

Role
  
Drummer

Origin
  
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, recording engineer, drum technician

Associated acts
  
Give Up the Ghost, Confessions, Bloodhorse, Piebald, Kingpin, 454 Big Block, Get High

Music groups
  
Give Up the Ghost, Cold Cave (Since 2005), Bloodhorse, Piebald

Albums
  
We Are the Only Friends, We're Down Til We're Un, When Life Hands You Lemons, Cherish the Light Years, Full Cold Moon

Similar
  
Wesley Eisold, Jennifer Clavin, David Scott Stone, Stephen Brodsky, Cody Votolato

Elliphant live till i die drum cover by alex garcia rivera


Alex Garcia-Rivera is a drummer, drum-tech and recording engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. He 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, Ma. He also currently plays drums in American Nightmare and Ascend / Descend.

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Touring band member

Aside from being a band member of the bands in his discography, Garcia-Rivera has been a touring drummer for the bands Shelter, Better Than A Thousand, Saves The Day, Baby Gopal, Avoid One Thing, and Cold Cave.

Chrome Over Brass (solo)

  • Collection of Singles (2012)
  • 16 Tracks of Feedback (EP) (2013)
  • "Stukas in the Wind" (single) (2014)
  • "Teenage Depression" (single) (2015)
  • Chrome Over Brass (2015)

    • 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)

    • Confessions

  • Your Girl (EP) (2013, Vanya)

    • As drum technician

  • Jejune – This Afternoons Malady – Big Wheel Recreation
  • Madball – Look My Way – Roadrunner Records
  • In My Eyes – Nothing To Hide – Revelation Records
  • Converge – No Heroes – Epitaph Records
  • Converge – Axe to Fall – Epitaph Records
  • Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind – Epitaph Records
  • The Hope conspiracy – Death Knows Your Name – Deathwish Inc.
  • Coliseum – No Salvation – Relapse Records
  • Animosity – Animal – Metal Blade Records
  • Piebald – Accidental Gentleman – SideOneDummy Records
  • Clouds – We Are Above You – Hydra Head Records
  • Cruel Hand – Prying Eyes – Bridge 9 Records
  • Blacklisted – Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God – Deathwish Inc.
  • Energy – Invasions of the Mind – Bridge 9 Records
  • Soul Control – Cycles – Bridge 9 Records
  • Verse – Aggression – Rivalry Records.
  • Dead Swans – Sleepwalkers – Bridge 9 Records
  • High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis – E1 Music
  • Beastmilk – Climax
  • Valenfyre – Splinters

    • Mountain Man - TWO- No Sleep Records

    As recording engineer/producer

  • Bloodhorse – EP – Translation Loss
  • Bloodhorse – Horizoner – Translation Loss
  • 108 – 18.61 – Deathwish Inc.
  • 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

    • References

    Alex Garcia-Rivera Wikipedia
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