Alex Garcia-Rivera

Alex Garcia-Rivera
Also known as	Chrome Over Brass
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)	Musician, recording engineer, drum technician
Instruments	Drum kit
Associated acts	Give Up the Ghost, Confessions, Saves The Day, Bloodhorse, Piebald, Kingpin, 454 Big Block, Get High

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

1. "Recapturing a classic sound". Boston Globe. January 1, 2010. (subscription required)
2. "Mountain Man Interview". AMP Magazine. March 18, 2011.
3. "All Music".
4. "Discogs artist page".
5. http://bostonhassle.com/2015/01/mystic-valley-studios-year-in-review/
6. "Cold Cave Settles Inner Disputes with a Dance-Off at GAMH". July 26, 2011.
7. "THE WEEK IN HARDCORE: COUNTERPARTS, ALL OUT WAR, CANCER BATS AND MORE". Fuse. May 15, 2015.
8. "The Life and Times Of a Young Rock Band". The New York Times. July 23, 1995.

External links

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