Alex Garcia-Rivera

Alex Garcia-Rivera is a drummer, drum-tech and recording engineer^[1][2][3][4] from Boston, Massachusetts. He performs all instruments in a solo band under the moniker Chrome Over Brass and owns and operates Mystic Valley Studio,^[5] an all-analog recording studio in Medford, Ma. He also currently plays drums in American Nightmare and Ascend / Descend.

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.^[6][7][8]

Discography

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

External links

• Chrome Over Brass on Facebook
• Chrome Over Brass on Bandcamp
• Mystic Valley Studio