Mitch Harris

Mitch Harris ( born October 31, 1970 in New York City ) is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist of grindcore band Righteous Pigs and Napalm Death.

Life

Mitch Harris grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. As Harris was ten years old, he moved with his family to Las Vegas. Already in high school played guitar and Harris founded his first band in 1987 called Righteous Pigs. With it, he released a total of two studio albums. With Mick Harris, with the Mitch Harris is not related, and Shane Embury of Napalm Death, existed since prolonged contact via tape trading. As part of the re-formation of her band with two guitarists Jesse Pintado next ( end of 1989 ) and Mitch Harris in early 1990 was recorded as a guitarist. Since then, Mitch Harris is a member of Napalm Death.

He also plays in various projects. In 1987 he founded with Mick Harris, the grindcore project Defecation, whose 1989 album Purity Dilution is considered a milestone of the genre. After internal disputes with Earache Records, the record label Napalm Death, Mitch Harris founded in 1992, the industrial metal project Meathook Seed, with whom he worked alongside Shane Embury with Donald Tardy and Trevor Peres from Obituary. Meathook Seed published until 1999, two studio albums. Together with Shane Embury operational Harris Little Giant Drug, with whom she played melodic post-grunge.

Discography

• See Defecation # Discography

• Prism Cast (Org Records, 1999)

• See Meathook Seed # Discography

• See Napalm Death # Discography (from 1990)

• See Righteous Pigs # Discography