Real name: Paul J. Harvey

Effective period / Period of releases: 2018

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 project was founded in Porirua, New Zealand in December 2000, but later relocated to Auckland.

Dead Kid Harvester's influences range from doom metal to drone, industrial and old school punk, all of which are polarized into an industrial cacophony of noise. Songs are usually vocals delivered over a haphazard collage of kitchen utensil samples. Lyrical themes include insanity, horror, philosophy and the fate of humankind.

The debut full-length The First Sign Of Madness was finally completed in 2018 after 10 years of recording and procrastination. More recent recordings branch out from the kitchen and include some querafancible samples as well. Dead Kid Harvester's name is a combination of two nicknames acquired at high school, equally as off-putting as the music itself.