Mick Harris
| Mick Harris | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 October 1967 Birmingham, England |
| Genres | Grindcore, jazzcore, industrial metal, hardcore punk, electronica, dub, hip hop, dubstep, drum and bass, trip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Drums, drum machines, turntables, synthesizers, vocals |
| Years active | 1985-2011 |
| Labels | Earache, Ohm Resistance, Ad Noiseam |
| Associated acts | Napalm Death, Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Scorn, Lull, Matera, Painkiller, Bill Laswell |
Mick Harris (born Michael John Harris, 12 October 1967) commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician.
Harris was born in Birmingham, and started out in the 1980s as a drummer working with various punk rock and grindcore bands (most notably pioneering grindcore band Napalm Death); as a drummer he is generally credited with popularising the blast beat, which has since become a key component of much of extreme metal and grindcore. Since the mid-1990s, Harris has worked primarily in electronic and ambient music, his main projects being Scorn and Lull. According to Allmusic, Harris's "genre-spanning activities have done much to jar the minds, expectations, and record collections of audiences previously kept aggressively opposed."
Harris' recording debut was as Napalm Death's second drummer, joining after founding member Miles "The Rat" Ratledge left the band in November 1985. His first live appearance with the band was on 18 January 1986, opening for Amebix. Harris was the driving force behind the band's seminal Scum album and the second release From Enslavement to Obliteration. A subsequent review of From Enslavement to Obliteration in the punk/indie fanzine Flipside went as follows: "This sounds like someone is literally firing a fully automatic rifle while a bassist and guitarist try to keep up."
After the release of the EP Mentally Murdered, Napalm Death became more interested in the death metal scene and their sound started to move away from the British grindcore sound. At this point Bill Steer and Lee Dorrian departed the band due to creative differences, later, Harris was the sole band member who remained in the tumultuous group through many line-up changes, eventually leaving in May 1991, just after the tour for Harmony Corruption.
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