Michael John Harris was born on 4 October 1967 and is an English musician from Birmingham.
17 Facts About Mick Harris
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Mick Harris was the drummer for Napalm Death between 1985 and 1991, and is credited for coining the term "grindcore".
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Since the mid-1990s, Mick Harris has worked primarily in electronic and ambient music, his main projects being Scorn and Lull.
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Mick Harris has collaborated with musicians including James Plotkin and Extreme Noise Terror.
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Mick Harris grew up listening to the radio shows of John Peel and would later record Peel Sessions with both Napalm Death and Scorn.
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Mick Harris was influenced by listening to bands such as Coil and Skinny Puppy.
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Mick Harris started playing drums in 1984 at the age of 16, after a friend in a psychobilly band called Martian Brain Squeeze asked him to play.
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Mick Harris then joined a punk band called Anorexia with Dave Cochrane.
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Mick Harris replaced Napalm Death's founding member Miles "The Rat" Ratledge as drummer in 1985.
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Mick Harris was the driving force behind Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration, being the only band member to play on both side A and side B of Scum.
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Mick Harris was contacted by John Zorn who wanted to create a new group consisting of himself, Harris and Bill Laswell on bass.
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Mick Harris later recalled how the first recording session with Painkiller led directly to his departure from Napalm Death.
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In 2024, the band reunited with Mick Harris playing electronic instruments to release several new albums.
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In 2017, Mick Harris released his first new music in six years under the name of Fret with a new song called "Lift Method" that was released through SoundCloud.
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Mick Harris has collaborated with Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell on Equations of Eternity, which is an ambient dub music project started in 1995 by Bernocchi.
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Bullen left Scorn in 1995 and Mick Harris continued to release albums exploring dark and minimalist industrial hip-hop territory, with a focus on extremely low and loud bass frequencies.
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In November 2011, Mick Harris announced that the Scorn project was "put to bed".