Dead Kid Harvester
With the lyrics to a song written, but no musical ability to accompany them, an alternative solution was conceived. A track was put together using samples of kitchen utensils, vocals were recorded, and Dead Kid Harvester was born.
Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony or tempo. The primary instruments used are vocals and kitchen utensils. The life of a song typically begins with the lyrics, written with no consideration for rhythm or beat. Dead Kid Harvester takes influences ranging from doom metal to drone, industrial and old school punk, and polarises them into an industrial cacophony of noise. Recorded samples and segments are combined haphazardly into songs, with frequent use of pitch shift and time stretch effects.
Dead Kid Harvester was founded in Porirua, New Zealand in December 2000 but later relocated to Auckland. The name Dead Kid Harvester is a combination of two nicknames acquired at high school, equally as off-putting as the music itself. The preferred lyrical themes are insanity, horror, philosophy and the fate of humankind. Dead Kid Harvester makes use of both jarring and subtle variations between channels to invoke uneasiness and disarray.
In 2018, after nearly ten years of recording and procrastination, the debut full-length album The First Sign Of Madness was finally completed.
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Discography
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The First Sign Of Madness | |
22nd May 2018 Planet Bloopy |
1. Radiation |
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Primordial Vestiges | |
18th Dec 2022 Planet Bloopy |
1. Hungry Harvey (Cannibal Beat mix) A collection of songs that served as demos for Dead Kid Harvester albums. Originally recorded and released online as individual tracks between 2000-2004. |
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I Only Liked the Neglected Demos | |
5th Feb 2012 Planet Bloopy |
1. They're Melting the Easter Bunny A collection of songs that never made it beyond the demo stage. Originally recorded and released online as individual tracks between 2001-2003. |
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Anniversary | |
25th Feb 2024 * Bandcamp |
Features song City. |
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Undead Apocalypse | |
31st Aug 2022 * Bandcamp |
Features song Hungry Harvey. |
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No Synth Noise Compilation 2017 | |
10th Dec 2017 Histamine Tapes * Bandcamp |
Features an interpretation of an Into Orbit track. |
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Through the Drift and the Unspoken | |
3rd Nov 2016 * Bandcamp |
Features song White Coats and Strangled Throats. |
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SIGNALVOID | |
8th Aug 2012 |
Features songs Puberty, Stubborn Cupboard. |
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5DBSSS One - tha ReeMux is | |
5th Sep 2011 Itsu Jitsu |
Metal on Utensil is a remix of Metal on Metal by Doug Sharp. |
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We'll Leave the Lights On | |
31st Oct 2009 He of the House |
Features song Radiation. |
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DEMUS Compiled II | |
30th Oct 2009 DEMUS * Bandcamp |
Features song Radiation. |
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In the Media
Rock Royalty (Phoenix New Times, 22 Jan. 2004)
"You can hear some bad stuff, true. I mean, my favorite horrible band is Dead Kid Harvester, a guy out of New Zealand who plays kitchen utensils. It's the worst stuff on the planet."
Reviews
I Only Liked the Neglected Demos
"...all those other projects that were used somehow, I never liked those so much either, ever. Scrap it all, leave it to the garbage, and collect it again some other time to make an album of neglected demos! This is actually some of the goofiest, funniest, and fucked to the bone music heard in my ears in a long time, something in fact never heard in my entire listening experience. This is something entirely other, almost stupid in fact, well, fucking brilliantly stupid! A retarded genius of astral bafoonery! The feeling I get from this music is a kind of sensation in my brain that no other music has ever come close to. Two huge what the fucking middle finger thumbs up..." - Samuel Lilly, WTFMusic