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.

Raymond Herrera
Herrera with Fear Factory in 2003
Herrera with Fear Factory in 2003
Background information
GenresThrash metal, death metal, grindcore, deathgrind, groove metal, nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal, heavy metal, rock, orchestral, electronica
OccupationMusician
InstrumentDrums
Years active1989 (1989)–present

Career

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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

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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

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Year Game Platform Notes
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

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With Fear Factory

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With Brujeria

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With Asesino

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With Phobia

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  • Return to Desolation (1994)

With Arkaea

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References

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  1. ^ Rhythm Magazine (2009-06-16). "How to sound like Fear Factory's Raymond Herrera". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2014-01-05.