Mitch Harris
Mitch Harris (born October 31, 1970 in New York City ) is an American musician. He became known as the guitarist of the grindcore bands Righteous Pigs and Napalm Death .
Life
Mitch Harris grew up in the New York borough of Queens . When Harris was ten years old, he moved to Las Vegas with his family . Harris played guitar in high school and formed his first band called Righteous Pigs in 1987 . With her he released a total of two studio albums. With Mick Harris is not related with the Mitch Harris and Shane Embury of Napalm Death, was for a long time contact through tape trading . In the course of the reorganization of their band with two guitarists, in addition to Jesse Pintado (late 1989), Mitch Harris was also accepted as a guitarist in early 1990. Since then, Mitch Harris has been a member of Napalm Death.
He also plays in various projects. As early as 1987 he founded the grindcore project Defecation with Mick Harris , whose 1989 album Purity Dilution is considered a milestone in the genre. After internal disputes with Earache Records , Napalm Death's record label, Mitch Harris founded the industrial metal project Meathook Seed in 1992 , where he worked alongside Shane Embury with Donald Tardy and Trevor Peres from Obituary . Meathook Seed released two studio albums by 1999. Harris and Shane Embury ran Little Giant Drug , with which they played melodic post-grunge .
Discography
- with defecation
- with Little Giant Drug
- Prismcast (Org Records, 1999)
- with Meathook Seed
- with Napalm Death
- see Napalm Death # discography (from 1990)
- with righteous pigs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Karsmakers: Interview with Napalm Death. Metal E-Zine, May 1994, accessed October 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Little Giant Drug , band info at Org Records , accessed on January 16, 2011 (English).
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| SURNAME | Harris, Mitch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |