Engineering · Production
Harris Johns
Harris Johns is credited on 1,124 releases across 224 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,124
Pressings credited
224
Albums
6
Decades active
141
In collections
Biography
Harris Johns is a German music producer, active since the late-1970s in the heavy metal and punk scene, working for a lot of big-name bands, such as Helloween, Coroner, Tankard, Sodom, Voivod, Kreator, Exumer, Ratos de Porão, Slime, Daily Terror and many others. Most of his productions were recorded at his studio Music Lab Berlin Studio. After 10 years recording in a former guest house in the countryside near Berlin, which he called Spiderhouse, he reopened the Music Lab Berlin in 2007 and gave it up 2016. He is still producing and teaching music production skills. Some of the hundreds of albums he produced: Slime – Alle gegen Alle (1983) Daily Terror – Aufrecht (1984) Grave Digger – Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) Helloween – Walls of Jericho (1985) Grave Digger – Witch Hunter (1985) Coroner – R.I.P. (1986) Celtic Frost – Tragic Serenades (1986) Kreator – Pleasure to Kill (1986) Kreator – Flag of Hate (1986) Exumer – Possessed by Fire (1986) Tankard – Chemical Invasion (1987) Tankard – The Morning After (1988) Voivod – Killing Technology (1987) Voivod – Dimension Hatröss (1988) Sodom – Persecution Mania (1987) Sodom – Agent Orange (1989) Hobbs Angel Of Death -Hobbs' Angel of Death (1988) Ratos de Porão – Brasil (1989) Pestilence – Consuming Impulse (1989) Ratos de Porão – Anarkophobia (1990) Napalm – Zero To Black (1990) Immolation – Dawn of Possession (1991) Sodom – Tapping the Vein (1992) Depressive Age – Lying in Wait (1994) Slime – Schweineherbst (1994) Saint Vitus – Die Healing (1995) Occult – "Enemy Within" (1996) Sodom – 'Til Death Do Us Unite (1997) Die Skeptiker – Wehr Dich (1998) Sodom – Code Red (1999) Sodom – M-16 (2001) Nail Within – Nail Within (2003) Enthroned – XES Haereticum (2004) Drei Flaschen – 1.Mai (2005) Johnnie Rook – Out of the Nook (2007) Enthroned – Tetra Karcist (2007) Toxpack – Cultus Interruptus (2007) Whiplash – Unborn Again (2009) Toxpack – Epidemie (2009) Soifass – Hypokrit (2010) Assassin – Breaking the Silence (2010/11) Toxpack –
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Credited work
1,124 releases · 224 albums · active 1979–2026
- Engineering · 1,379
- Production · 837
- Performance · 149
- Mastering · 102
- Other credits · 20
Studios: Music Lab Berlin · Spiderhouse Studio · Horus Sound Studio · Musiclab Studio Berlin
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Arise
1991

Dimension Hatröss
1988

To Mega Therion
1985

Killing Technology
1987

Walls Of Jericho
1985

Pleasure To Kill
1986

R.I.P.
1987

The Best - The Rest - The Rare
1991

Terrible Certainty
1988

M-16
2001

Heresy
1989

Heavy Metal Breakdown
1984

Tapping The Vein
1992

Consuming Impulse
1989

Chemical Invasion
1987

Tragic Serenades
1986

Die Healing
1995

Third World Posse
1992

Dawn Of Possession
1991

Agent Orange
1989

Persecution Mania
1987

Unborn Again
2009

Nailwork
2000

Ratamahatta
1996
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