Eric Brecht is best known as drummer for DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) between 1982 and 1985. Brecht gets replaced by Rob Rampy.
Eric Brecht also played in Death for a while in 1985, replacing Barney 'Kam' Lee, who left the band to form Massacre. Within months Eric Brecht and Death's main man Chuck Schuldiner split up, the latter hooking up with Chris Reifert.