Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera | |
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Herrera with Fear Factory in 2003 | |
Background information | |
Genres | Thrash metal, death metal, grindcore, deathgrind, groove metal, nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal, heavy metal, rock, orchestral, electronica |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument | Drums |
Years active | 1989 | –present
Raymond Herrera is an American musician, best known as the former drummer and founding member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory. He is the former drummer for his previous band Brujeria and for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a composer and producer of music for video games, television, feature films, and transmedia.
Career
[edit]His commercial album debut was Fear Factory's Soul of a New Machine in 1992. The band soon began a nearly two decade long recording and touring schedule including more than twelve commercial album releases and numerous world tours. He is known for his high speed playing, particularly his "stop go" double bass technique rather than the usual "flooring face" style.
In 1996, Herrera started to secure music licensing of Fear Factory's music for dozens of video games. He started Herrera Productions (renamed 3volution Productions in 2003) and worked as composer-producer on numerous video games. This includes the first two Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, Scarface: The World is Yours, and Iron Man 2.
In 2006, Herrera started the recording studio Temple Studios LLC and co-created the beverage company Redux Beverages LLC. In 2008, he played drums with Arkaea, including former Fear Factory band member Christian Olde Wolbers, and Jon Howard and Pat Kavanagh from Threat Signal. The band released the album Years in the Darkness. In 2009, he started Alt-Strum Productions (ASP). In 2010, he co-created Freedom To Rock, a 501c3 non-profit organization, and is on the board of directors. In 2011–2012, Herrera worked with Power A to help develop the FUS1ON Gaming controller.[citation needed]
In 2013 Raymond joined Capital Source Network (CSN), a company Raymond helped create. Capital Source Network is a beverage industry one-stop shop, specializing in brokering, test marketing, distribution and financial services. CSN represents a wide variety of brands, from vitamin enhanced waters to energy supplements. The company has offices in California, Indiana and Michigan.
In 2015 Raymond started 3volution Organics with his wife Paula Herrera. The company specializes in organic products in the natural industry. The company started in the west coast region of California. The company became a national broker in 2017 and has expanded into E-Commerce and international Brick and Mortar and international E-commerce in early 2021.
Equipment and endorsements
[edit]- Pro-mark drum sticks
- Zildjian cymbals
- DW pedals (5000 series)
- Attack drum heads
- Tama Drums
Power Tower custom rack system, Tama hardware including Wide Rider drum throne, two DW5000 bass drum pedals, Attack drum heads, ddrum4 triggers, Korg D1200 studio and Pro-Mark 5A Oakwood nylon tip sticks. More details about his drum setup available.[1]
Games
[edit]Year | Game | Platform | Notes |
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1995 | Mortal Kombat | Movie and CD Soundtrack | |
1997 | Carmageddon | DOS, Macintosh | |
1997 | Wing Commander Prophecy | PC/Game Boy Advance | |
1998 | NFL Xtreme | PlayStation | |
1998 | Test Drive 5 | PlayStation/PC | |
1998 | Test Drive Off-Road 2 | PlayStation/PC | |
1999 | Carmageddon | PlayStation | |
1999 | Demolition Racer | PlayStation/PC/Dreamcast | |
1999 | Hydro Thunder | TV Commercial | |
1999 | Test Drive 6 | PlayStation/PC/Dreamcast/Game Boy Color | |
2000 | Messiah | PC | |
2000 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | |
2000 | Gran Turismo - Music At The Speed Of Sound | Videogame Soundtrack | |
2001 | Frequency | PlayStation 2 | |
2002 | Resident Evil | Movie and CD Soundtrack | |
2002 | Terminator: Dawn Of Fate | PlayStation 2/Xbox | Soundtrack |
2003 | NFL Gameday 2004 | PlayStation/PlayStation 2 | |
2004 | Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball | Xbox | |
2005 | Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball Max’d | Xbox/Game Boy Advance/ Nintendo DS/PlayStation 2 | |
2005 | Battlefield 2 Modern Combat | PlayStation 2/Xbox 360 | |
2005 | Blitz The League | PlayStation 2/Xbox/Xbox 360/PSP/Wii | |
2005 | WWE Smackdown VS RAW 2006 | PlayStation 2/PSP | |
2005 | Colosseum Road To Freedom | PlayStation 2 | |
2005 | Infected | Sony PSP | |
2005 | Taxi Driver | E3 Demo Xbox 360 | |
2005 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown | Xbox/Gamecube/PC/Mobile/PlayStation 2 | CD Soundtrack |
2006 | WWE Smackdown VS RAW 2007 | PlayStation 2/PSP/Xbox 360 | |
2006 | Jaws Unleashed | PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC | |
2006 | Scarface The World Is Yours | PC/PlayStation 2/Xbox/Wii | |
2006 | Final Fight Streetwise | PlayStation 2/Xbox | |
2007 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter | PC/PS2/Xbox 360 | |
2008 | Too Human | Xbox 360 | |
2008 | Battle Of The Bands | Wii | |
2008 | Rockband 2 | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii | |
2009 | MX VS ATV Reflex | Nintendo DS/PlayStation 3/Sony PSP/Xbox 360/PC | |
2009 | Wheelman | PlayStation 3/Xbox 360/PC | |
2010 | Nail’d | PlayStation 3/PC/Xbox 360 | |
2010 | Iron Man 2 | PlayStation 3/PC/Xbox 360/PSP/Nintendo DS/iPhone | |
2010 | Rockband 3 | Xbox 360 | |
2011 | MX VS ATV Alive | PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 | |
2011 | Need For Speed The Run | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | |
2014 | MX Vs. ATV Supercross | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
Discography
[edit]With Fear Factory
[edit]- Concrete (recorded in 1991 and released on July 30, 2002)
- Soul of a New Machine (1992)
- Demanufacture (1995)
- Obsolete (1998)
- Digimortal (2001)
- Archetype (2004)
- Transgression (2005)
With Brujeria
[edit]- Matando Güeros (1993)
- Raza Odiada (1995)
- Brujerizmo (2000)
With Asesino
[edit]- Corridos de Muerte (2002)
With Phobia
[edit]- Return to Desolation (1994)
With Arkaea
[edit]- Years in the Darkness (2009)
References
[edit]- ^ Rhythm Magazine (2009-06-16). "How to sound like Fear Factory's Raymond Herrera". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
- American heavy metal drummers
- American musicians of Mexican descent
- Living people
- Nu metal drummers
- 20th-century American drummers
- American male drummers
- Brujeria (band) members
- Fear Factory members
- Asesino members
- 21st-century American drummers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians
- Hispanic and Latino American musicians