Lance Garvin

Lance Garvin is a founding member, along with Bruce Fitzhugh, DJ Johnson, and Jason Truby, of the well known and highly influential Christian metal band Living Sacrifice. The band is well known throughout the Christian metal community as one of the most important Christian metal bands to date. Garvin is mostly known for using a Ride Cymbal in modern metal without making it sound thinner.
Garvin is also known as the drummer of Christian Metal band Soul Embraced and has played with the bands Throwdown and Zao as well. He formed the band Kill System, along with fellow Soul Embraced members, Chad Moore and Rocky Gray, and former Evanescence guitarist John LeCompt.

Garvin playing the first ever Living Sacrifice show in 1989

Garvin has stated that his inspiration was Ace Frehley of Kiss. Here is what he said:

"I actually wanted to be Ace Frehley of Kiss when I was five years old. Their 1976 Destroyer album is what turned me into a metal head."

With Living Sacrifice, Garvin influenced many metal bands, such as, As I Lay Dying, Throwdown, 7 Horns 7 Eyes, Saving Grace, Demon Hunter and Underoath.

Professionally, Garvin himself, along with Brandan Trahan of Impending Doom and xDEATHSTARx, Matt Greiner of August Burns Red, and Ted Kirkpatrick of Tourniquet, are all considered influential drummers for Christian metal.

Garvin has been compared by his band-mate, Bruce Fitzhugh, and others to Slayer's former drummer, Dave Lombardo.

Current

• Living Sacrifice (1989-2003, 2005, 2008–present)
• Soul Embraced (1999-2008, 2014–present)

Former

• Kill System (2002-2003)
• Heroes Among Thieves

Touring

• Zao (2003)
• Throwdown (2009-2011)

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• JoshIVM (October 28, 2014). "Lance Garvin returns to Soul Embraced". Indie Vision Music. 

With Living Sacrifice

• Not Yielding to Ungodly (1989)
• Living Sacrifice (1991)
• Nonexistent (1992)
• Metamorphosis (1993)
• Inhabit (1994)
• Reborn (1997)
• The Hammering Process (2000)
• Subtle Alliance (2002)
• Conceived in Fire (2002)
• In Memoriam (2005)
• Death Machine (2008)
• The Infinite Order (2010)
• Ghost Thief (2013)

With Soul Embraced

• The Fleshless (1999)
• For the Incomplete (2000)
• This Is My Blood (2002)
• Immune (2003)
• Dead Alive (2008)

With Kill System

• Kill System (2002)

As Additional Musician

• Forever by The Blamed (1999)
• Burning Bridges by Haste the Day (2004)
• In the Clutches of the Novae by Mothwind (2014)