Lance Garvin

Lance Garvin is an American drummer and, along with Bruce Fitzhugh, DJ Johnson and Jason Truby, a founding member of the Christian metal band Living Sacrifice. Garvin is mostly known for using a Ride Cymbal in modern metal without making it sound thinner.

Garvin is also 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.

When Living Sacrifice prepared to release their documentary, the release was delayed by COVID-19, with Garvin contracting the sickness.

With Living Sacrifice, Garvin influenced many metal bands, such as As I Lay Dying, Throwdown, Saving Grace, Demon Hunter

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

Bands Current

Former The Satire – drums

Touring 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 Burning Bridges by Haste the Day (2004) In the Clutches of the Novae by Mothwind (2014)