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Chris Brim has been playing drums and music literally his entire life. His family often tells stories of Chris as a five year old waking the family at 5:00 am playing on a toy drum set. By age seven he was intently watching drummers at his mother’s church and practicing on metal chairs, learning to play by mimicking what he saw the church band drummers do during services.

At age nine, Chris went to live with his father for a time and begged him for a 15 piece drum set for his birthday. Dad, assuming that it would be a poor investment refused, so Chris taped old phone books to the bottoms of rubber trash cans and bought his first real pair of sticks and began playing beats on those phone books. By age ten, Chris had convinced his family that drumming wasn’t just a passing phase and his mother bought him his first drum set, a five piece Royce kit. As soon as he sat behind that set and began playing, Chris started amazing his family and their friends.

By age twelve Chris was drafted to fill in for the drummer for his church’s band. In one week he learned the entire service and a few weeks later, Chris was the regular drummer and spent 2 hours a day practicing, then he started touring regionally and teaching other churches how to rock. When Chris was fourteen, his church traveled to Mexico for mission work. During this trip, Chris and his church’s band played in front of thousands of people and went to small villages to teach the villagers how to play music. Often times the band would leave their instruments with the villagers who had none of their own.

At fifteen, Chris discovered punk rock stealing records his parents wouldn’t let him buy to listen to drummers like Nirvana’s Dave Grohl, Silverchair’s Ben Giles and Andrew Verdecchio of Five Iron Frenzy. These drummers along with Christian band drummers Yuri Ruley of MXPX, Dale Baker of Sixpence None the Richer and Adam Neubauer of Ghoti hook influenced Chris’s view of how a drummer can add so much more than a beat to a song. By age sixteen Chris had co-founded Keracell with musical brothers Nate Hensley who later played with Pittsburgh’s The Yards and Gabriel Hensley, now front man for the multi-lineup jam project The Other Brothers. Kerasell toured regionally opening shows for another regional band, Partly Cloudy.

After the members of Kerasell parted ways Partly Cloudy front man Dave Harms called on Chris to replace PC’s drummer. Soon Chris was not only bringing his unique structuring and pulse pounding beats to Partly Cloudy’s songs but was also contributing as the bands primary song writer. After Partly Cloudy released ”Misery” off their debut album State of Mind to college radio, Chris toured nationally with PC to promote the album on The Ecampus Rock’s Your Campus Tour. The follow-up EP Arm Your Weapons was written primarily by Chris. He also helped produce the EP alongside Nick Stevens. Arm Your Weapons’ single “Helpless” was released to commercial and internet radio and led to Chris touring nationally again. Chris has also been hired as a session player for Long Island Records artists and has written songs for Standby Records artists.

Currently Chris is touring nationally and is also in and out of the studio writing and recording with producer Don Debiase. In addition, Chris is also producing several up and coming artists on their debut releases while also writing and licensing material for them. Currently Chris' music has been used for several network televison shows including Mtv's "Life of Ryan", "Parental Control", "Real World/Road Rules Challenge", "Teen Cribs". E!tv's "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and Oxygens networks "Bad Girls Club".

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"Chris Brim is at the cutting edge of rock drumming." "He is a solid and precise drummer with chops to match." - Ron Stillwell producer of "Heartland Sessions" (1999)

"Passionately intense, fueled by aggression, accurate to a fault." "Chris Brim may very well be the future of modern rock percussion." -Michael Thomas producer of "State of Mind" (L.I.R records 2002)

"Chris Brim embodies the power of John Bonham and the finesse of Stewart Copeland all in one explosive package." "He is definitely one of the tightest drummers I have ever had the opportunity to work with in the studio." -Steve Nall producer of lost album (2004) Head engineer on "State of Mind" (L.I.R records 2002)

"As engineer/co-producer of the Partly Cloudy EP, "Arm Your Weapons", I got to work with and know Chris Brim. Chris is the drummer every band hopes for, and the drummer every band who has achieved success, already has.""The magic that is missing in recording most bands, is that the drummer considers himself a drummer, not a musician, and thus removes himself from the most important component of the project." "The component they are playing drums to." "THE SONG.""Chris came to the studio fully prepared and enthusiastic about the songs." "Not only did he play all the drum tracks, but as co-writer/arranger of the songs, he had the bass part the bass player wasn't sure of, the chord change the guitar player needed, and the melody the lead singer wasn't sure of." "And if that wasn't enough, he sang the background parts." "This single mindedness gave the project focus and direction, and allowed us the studio time to be creative, not standing around wondering what to play, or sing." "I hope I get the opportunity to work with Chris and the band again soon." -Nick Stevens producer of "Arm your weapons" (2007)
"I've recorded a lot of drummers, and one word that comes to mind when I think of Chris Brims' playing is PASSION." "He is the best drummer I know for playing the right part that fits the song best." -Don Debiase producer of upcoming album "I'm rubber, you're glue" (2008)

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