Alex Garcia-Rivera is an American rock drummer, drum-tech and recording engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. He has been the drummer for the bands Shelter, Piebald, Good Clean Fun, Bloodhorse, 454 Big Block, 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 Medford, Massachusetts.
Touring band member Alex Garcia-Rivera has been a touring drummer for the bands Shelter, Better Than a Thousand, Saves the Day, Piebald, Avoid One Thing, 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, Iodine)
Confessions Your Girl (EP) (2013, Vanya)
As drum technician Mutoid Man - War Moans - Sargent House Four Year Strong - Four Year Strong - Pure Noise Records 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 Converge - The Dusk In Us - Epitaph Records, Deathwish Inc. 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 High On Fire - Luminiferous - Entertainment One Music Beastmilk – Climax Vallenfyre – Splinters Mountain Man - "TWO" - No Sleep Records
As recording engineer/producer American Nightmare (band) - American Nightmare - Rise Records Vundabar - Gawk Ascend/Descend - Murdock Street - Dead Tank Records Bloodhorse – EP – Translation Loss Bloodhorse – Horizoner – Translation Loss 108 – 18.61 – Deathwish Inc. 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 Mystic Valley Studio