Eduardo Rivadavia

Eduardo Rivadavia (aka Ed Rivadavia) was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and by his late teens had already toured the world (and elsewhere), learning four languages on three continents. Having also accepted the holy gospel of rock & roll as his lord and savior, Eduardo became infatuated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and all things heavy, crude, and obnoxious while living in Milan, Italy, during the mid-'80s. At this time, he also made his journalistic debut as sole writer, editor, publisher, and some might say, reader of his high school's heavy metal fanzine, earning the scorn of jocks and nerds alike but uniting the small hardcore music-loving contingent into a frenzied mob that spent countless hours exchanging tapes, talking shop, and getting beat up at concerts. Upon returning home to Brazil, Eduardo resumed a semi-normal existence, sporadically contributing music articles to local papers and magazines while earning his business degree. Finally, after years of obsessive musical fandom and at peace with his distinct lack of musical talent, Eduardo decided the time had come to infiltrate the music industry from the inside. He escaped from a brief but boring corporate job, relocated to Chicago, earned his master's degree while suffering the iniquities of interning for free (all for rock & roll!), and eventually began working for various record labels, accumulating mountains of records and (seemingly) useless rock trivia in the process. This eventually led him back to writing, and he has been an AMG contributor since 1999, submitting reviews in many different rock genres but specializing, as always, in his personal hobby: extreme and obscure heavy metal. To quote from the legendary and incredibly insightful This Is Spinal Tap: "People should be jealous of me...I'm jealous of me...." Eduardo currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his fiancée and far too many CDs and records. He welcomes all music submissions -- especially things heavy, crude, and obnoxious (see above) -- and suggestions, questions, and corrections; please contact: edrivadavia@yahoo.com.



Desert Island Discs:

AC/DC -- Back in Black

AC/DC -- If You Want Blood You've Got It

At the Gates -- Slaughter of the Soul

The Beatles -- Abbey Road

The Black Crowes -- Amorica

Black Sabbath -- Paranoid

David Bowie -- Scary Monsters

James Brown -- Star Time

Budgie -- Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

Cavity -- Supercollider

Cheap Trick -- At Budokan

The Darkness -- Permission to Land

Deep Purple -- In Rock

Def Leppard -- High 'N' Dry

Electric Wizard -- Dopethrone

Enuff Z'Nuff -- Strength

Faith No More -- The Real Thing

Howlin' Wolf -- His Best

Iron Maiden -- The Number of the Beast

Jellyfish -- Spilt Milk

Elton John -- Greatest Hits

Robert Johnson -- Complete Recordings

King's X -- Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Kyuss -- Blues for the Red Sun

Manilla Road -- Crystal Logic

Metallica -- Ride the Lightning

Monster Magnet -- Powertrip

Motörhead -- Ace of Spades

Pentagram -- First Daze Here

The Police -- Ghost in the Machine

Queen -- A Night at the Opera

Rage Against the Machine -- Rage Against the Machine

Ramones -- Ramones

Raven -- Rock Until You Drop

The Rolling Stones -- Some Girls

Saxon -- Strong Arm of the Law

Sepultura -- Arise

Sir Lord Baltimore -- Kingdom Come

Slayer -- Reign in Blood

The Smiths -- The Queen Is Dead

Soundgarden -- Badmotorfinger

Stooges -- Stooges

Thin Lizzy -- Live and Dangerous

Van Halen -- Van Halen

Frank Zappa -- One Size Fits All

ZZ Top -- Tres Hombres ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide