Career
As of January 2016, he has been a metal frontman for thirty-four years and has recorded fourteen albums. Rivera got his start singing with aforementioned Power/Speed Metal act Helstar, a band established in the early 1980s in Houston, Texas. In addition to Helstar, Rivera has sung with several other metal bands (most notably Destiny"s End and Vicious Rumors) during his music career and belonged to several tribute bands.
James Rivera, along with the other founding member Larry Barragan, rebuilt his original band Helstar, with the other guitar player Rob Trevino, bass player Jerry Abarca and drummer Russian De Leon.
(now substituted by Michael Lewis) They have released in 2007 Sins Of The Past, a re-recorded best of including the most famous Helstar songs, finally they came out in 2008 with a new brand full length called King Of Hell. They"ve released a couple albums since then, most recently in 2013.
During these years Rivera and Helstar have been hardly busy with their live show across the United States but also touring in Europe, the Helstar music hit great stages like the ones of the Keep lieutenant True Festival and Headbanger Open Air, both in Germany and finally the cult Heavy Metal festival in Italy called Play lieutenant Loud.
