There are several artists with the name Harvester: A Swedish psychedelic rock band, a Hungarian grind'n'roll band and an American indie pop‑rock group.

1) Harvester was a Swedish psychedelic rock band, formed in 1967 as Pärson Sound. They changed their name to International Harvester in 1968, and shortened it to Harvester the same year. Harvester turned into Träd, Gräs och Stenar in 1969.

2) Harvester is a Hungarian grind'n'roll band. You can download all their recordings from their official blog. They recorded an EP called «Watch Me, I'm an Artist» in 2007 and an LP in August 2008 called 'The Magnificent Humiliation'. It was out in late 2009 on the indie netlabel Chromechoes.
2010 saw a new e.p. coming entitled 'We Are The Nottebohm Case'. While still maintaining the brutality and speed of death metal and grindcore and the fast marching rhythm of hardcore punk, 'We Are The Nottebohm Case' has some really weird, Helmet‑like passages, old school hard rock vibes with some melody and the usual ironic overtones.

With 2012 came a new e.p. called «Merdre!» The latest effort has the essence of Harvester: brutality, melody, irony, fun, twisted, crazy song‑patterns, lyrics about the apocalypse and even a song in Hungarian, for the first time. (It is free to download from the band's official blog.)

Although weirdness and fun has always been an important part of Harvester, in fact it has never been purely a «silly‑Anal‑Cunt‑nonsense‑grindcore» band. The lyrics are usually serious and the music is mostly furiously raging. The aim is probably to provoke, confuse, insult and entertain the audience in the same time.

3) Not really intending to be a proper band, Harvester formed in the Fall of 1993 in Chico, CA. Singer/guitarist Sean Harrasser had previously played in the Vertels and Disaster Scrapbook. Originally a vehicle to record some songs, Harvester started playing shows without much in the way of rehearsal, fanfare, or…читать далее ↓

There are several artists with the name Harvester: A Swedish psychedelic rock band, a Hungarian grind'n'roll band and an American indie pop‑rock group.

1) Harvester was a Swedish psychedelic rock band, formed in 1967 as Pärson Sound. They changed their name to International Harvester in 1968, and shortened it to Harvester the same year. Harvester turned into Träd, Gräs och Stenar in 1969.

2) Harvester is a Hungarian grind'n'roll band. You can download all their recordings from their official blog. They recorded an EP called «Watch Me, I'm an Artist» in 2007 and an LP in August 2008 called 'The Magnificent Humiliation'. It was out in late 2009 on the indie netlabel Chromechoes.
2010 saw a new e.p. coming entitled 'We Are The Nottebohm Case'. While still maintaining the brutality and speed of death metal and grindcore and the fast marching rhythm of hardcore punk, 'We Are The Nottebohm Case' has some really weird, Helmet‑like passages, old school hard rock vibes with some melody and the usual ironic overtones.

With 2012 came a new e.p. called «Merdre!» The latest effort has the essence of Harvester: brutality, melody, irony, fun, twisted, crazy song‑patterns, lyrics about the apocalypse and even a song in Hungarian, for the first time. (It is free to download from the band's official blog.)

Although weirdness and fun has always been an important part of Harvester, in fact it has never been purely a «silly‑Anal‑Cunt‑nonsense‑grindcore» band. The lyrics are usually serious and the music is mostly furiously raging. The aim is probably to provoke, confuse, insult and entertain the audience in the same time.

3) Not really intending to be a proper band, Harvester formed in the Fall of 1993 in Chico, CA. Singer/guitarist Sean Harrasser had previously played in the Vertels and Disaster Scrapbook. Originally a vehicle to record some songs, Harvester started playing shows without much in the way of rehearsal, fanfare, or quality. Guitarist Jed Brewer joined during this period. The name «Harvester» came from a mispelling on a piece of Sean’s mail (Sean Harvester). The three guitar, no bass line‑up played most of its songs in the very low C# tuning, making for quite a fun mess.

In early 1994, former Case For Radio / Yardstick bassist Todd Steinberg joined the band. Highlights from this period included a show with the Archers of Loaf and a dog‑piling mess of a show (w/ acutal dogs, too!) at a backyard ping‑pong tournament in Davis. Gary Janssen played drums for a few of these shows. That summer, Harvester recorded their 10-song, Granite...What?! cassette. The cassette soon perked the ears of a rep at DGC Records. After a performance a mile underground in the 12 to 1 Goldmine (Sierra Nevada Mts.), Harvester recorded its DGC debut, Me Climb Mountain, with Darin Keatley at Enharmonik Skateramp (Sacramento, CA), where they had done all of their previous recording.

Harvester went on to record three more albums and an ep: Congratulations on Your Nudity EP, Camper Van Landingham, Mud is My Ally, and Annoying the Waitress. Members are now spread throughout the country, mostly in Portland, OR, and Sacramento, CA. The band still plays live once in awhile and is finishing up a new album, due out in late 2008. The current line up is Sean Harrasser, Jed Brewer, Todd Steinberg, Ario Lynch, and Jon Sebat. More information at http://www.latherrecords.com and http://www.myspace.com/meclimbharvester

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