Raymond Herrera


Raymond Herrera is best known as the former drummer and founding member of the heavy metal band Fear Factory. He was also the drummer for his former band Brujeria and the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea.

Biography

Herrera is an award-winning composer and producer of music for video games, television, feature films and transmedia. An RIAA certified Platinum-Selling recording artist, Herrera recorded his commercial album debut with his former band Fear Factory in 1992. Soon after the album's release, Herrera began a nearly two decade long recording and touring schedule that included over twelve commercial album releases and numerous world tours.
Herrera's drumming is considered to be a key part of Fear Factory's signature sound and their appeal to fans. He is also known for his high speed playing, particularly his double bass technique. Herrera's uses a "stop go" technique of drumming for his double bass rather than the usual "flooring face" style of double bass playing.
In 1996, Herrera started to secure music licensing of Fear Factory's music for dozens of video game titles. This allowed Herrera to branch out and create Herrera Productions as cross-genre composer-producer working on numerous videogame projects. His experience writing and producing rock, metal, industrial and rap music combined with orchestral, techno and other genres lead him to work on projects for many top videogame publishers and developers in North America, Japan and Europe including Microsoft, SEGA, Sony, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ, Midway, Capcom, Namco, Atari, Majesco and others.
Some of Herrera's notable game projects include: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Rainbow Six: Lockdown, Scarface: The World is Yours, MX vs. ATV Reflex, NFL Gameday 2004, WWE Smakdown vs. Raw 2006, Alpha Protocol, Test Drive 4, Too Human and Iron Man 2. Projects he has worked on have sold more than 30 million units in combined sales and have been nominated for various awards including the BAFTA award for game of the year.
Herrera has produced, composed or performed with notable recording artists including: Fear Factory, Arkaea, Cypress Hill, Shavo Odadjian, Billy Gould, Everlast, DJ Lethal, Frank Black, Stephen Carpenter, Puddle of Mudd, Gary Numan, Wayne Static, Pat Lachman, Doug Carrion, Megadeth, The Prague and Magik Magik Orchestras, Jeff Kendrick & Mike Spreitzer and Junkie XL.
In 2006, Herrera created Temple Studios LLC, which is a recording studio located in Chatsworth, California. In the same year, he co-created a beverage company called Redux Beverages LLC. In 2008, Herrera played drums with Arkaea, along with former Fear Factory band member Christian Olde Wolbers and Jon Howard and Pat Kavanagh from Threat Signal. The band release an album entitled "Years In The Darkness." In 2009, he started Alt-Strum Productions. In 2010, Herrera 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. In 2013, Herrera joined Capital Source Network, a beverage broker he helped create.
in 2015 Raymond formed a brokerage business with his wife Paula Rae Herrera, the company is a broker in the natural products industry specializing in organic products. The company started out in the Central Coast of California and quickly grew to multiple states and the company became a nationwide broker in early 2017. the company does business nationwide with over a dozen brands specifically picked by Paula Herrera. In 2020 the company started doing business internationally launching first in the countries of Canada and Korea.
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Gameography

Discography

With Fear Factory

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.