After releasing their first (very underground) album "Industrial", on the Peaceville label, PITCH SHIFTER signed with Earache Records in early '92. The Nottingham-based noise terrorists then released the "Submit" mini-LP and stampeded through Europe with the likes of Grotus, The Young Gods, Girls Against Boys, Fugazi, Fudge Tunnel, Treponem Pal, and Napalm Death. gathering an intelligently degenerate following in their wake.
All these experiences were then reflected in their first full Earache album "Desensitized" (1993). By stretching conventional instruments to inhuman limits and welding a wealth of warped sampling and sequencing to them, PITCH SHIFTER delivered a provocative blow to the skull with their bludgeoning yet hypnotic rhythm section, crushing guitars, and questioning lyrics carried along by a rush of vocal anger.
The "Desensitized" release led to an explosive European headlining tour. Widespread acclaim for both the album and band followed, due in no small part to the band's energetic and unpredictable live performances, breaking down the traditional artist/performers barrier by becoming one with the crowd, inviting fans onstage, and throwing propaganda style flyers into the audience.
Early in '94 the band plowed their way across the U.S. with Stabbing Westward and Carcass before returning for another headline tour in the UK and subsequently laying waste to several European festivals.
In 1995 the band culminated their European work with a show-stopping appearance in July at the Phoenix Festival. Such was the crowd's enthusiasm for the quartet's set that they rushed the stage, prompting the plug to be pulled on a band for the first and only time in the Festival's history. The chaos may or may not have had something to do with the mysterious crop circle which had appeared in an adjoining field the previous night - an enormous and perfectly rendered replica of the band's now famous "eye" symbol.
1996 saw PITCH SHIFTER release their brand new full length LP entitled "Infotainment?". Produced by the band and studio wizard Simon Efemy (a long time fan of the band), "Infotainment?" was a seething indictment on the degeneration of 90's society expressed through a wall of guitars, pounding rhythms, and pure bass groove, all blended with flavours of the band's Hip-Hop, Techno, and Jungle sensibilities.
PITCH SHIFTER were, yet again, breaking new ground, but parting of the ways was inevitable, so Pitchshifter were dropped (to the band's immense satisfaction) from the Earache label in September 1996 after recording two further albums with Geffen , an album with Sanctuary Records, and finally releasing an album on thier own label before splitting up in the Spring of 2003.