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Zach Hill
Hill in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Zachary Charles Hill
Born	(1979-12-28)December 28, 1979 (age 45) Sacramento,California, U.S.
Genres	Rock math rock experimental electronic hip hop noise industrial jazz digital hardcore
Occupations	Musician songwriter producer visual artist director
Instruments	Drums vocals keyboards guitar bass horns synthesizer sampler[1][2]
Years active	1995–present
Labels	5 Rue Christine Ache Anticon Deathbomb Arc Epic Ipecac Joyful Noise Kill Rock Stars Narnack Ormolycka Overlap Rodriguez Lopez The Advantage Rock Is Hell Sargent House Sick Room Skin Graft Sub Pop Suicide Squeeze Third Worlds Harvest Toad
Member of	Hella Death Grips The I.L.Y's Undo K From Hot
Formerly of	Legs on Earth Crime in Choir Flössin Diamond Watch Wrists Team Sleep Nervous Cop Holy Smokes The Ladies Bygones Wavves

Zachary Charles Hill (born December 28, 1979)^[3] is an Americanmulti-instrumentalist andvisual artist. He is best known as the drummer and co-producer of the groupsDeath Grips, andthe I.L.Y's, and as the drummer ofmath rock bandHella.

Zach Hill was born inSacramento, California on December 28, 1979. He spent most of his adolescence at his father and uncle's press printing shop, where he was first exposed toclassic rock music.^[4]

Hill claims that he "started hearing voices in his head telling him to play the drums" when he was about 14 or 15 years old, and bought his first drum set with money he raised with a friend from a garage sale.^[5] He dropped out of high school at age 15 and moved toNevada City, California, where he started the bandLegs on Earth with Julian Imsdahl,Spencer Seim, and cousin Josh Hill. Hill later moved toSan Francisco, California where he played drums in the bandCrime in Choir before startingHella in 2001.^[6]

In addition to music, Hill is also a visual artist. He published a fully illustrated book,Destroying Yourself is Too Accessible, which included the Zach Hill and Holy Smokes albumMasculine Drugs released in 2004 on TNI Books andSuicide Squeeze Records.

The Sacramento, California, art space Fools Foundation ran an exhibition of Hill's art, titled "Poltergeist", from April 1 to April 29, 2006. Parts of the exhibit are visible in the photos accompanying Hill's article in the August 2006 issue ofModern Drummer and on the Fools Foundation website.^[7]

Hill was said to be working on an original feature film in 2013, which was confirmed to feature late actressKaren Black in a leading role.^[8] However, she had died before the film could come into full fruition. A shortened excerpt of the footage was posted on the Death Grips YouTube account in October 2015 in a 15-minute video entitled "Bottomless Pit". It has been rumored that eitherDeath Grips or Hill's side-project, the I.L.Y's, would be involved with the soundtrack of the film as well.^[9]

• Astrological Straits (2008)
• Face Tat (2010)

as Xach Hill

• Lil Scuzzy (2011)

• Hold Your Horse Is (2002)
• The Devil Isn't Red (2004)
• Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard (2005)
• There's No 666 in Outer Space (2007)
• Tripper (2011)

• Leather Diamond (2001)
• Falam Dynasty (2002)
• Bitches Ain't Shit but Good People (2003)
• Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass (2003)
• Acoustics (2004)
• Concentration Face & Homeboy (2005)
• Acoustics (2006)
• Santa's Little Hella (2013)

• Portals (2008)

with Dilute

• Live (2003)

with Four Tet

• Split Seven Inch Divorce Series 1 (2004)

• Lead Singer (2004)
• Live at Overlap 01 (2006)
• Serpents (2009)
• White Anaconda and the Rainbow Boa (2011)

as Zach Hill & Holy Smokes

• Masculine Drugs / Destroying Yourself Is Too Accessible (2004)

as Holy Smokes

• Talk to Your Kids About Gangs (2006)

• Team Sleep (2005)

• Shred Earthship (2006)
• Volume 2 (2007)
• Volthree (2020)^[10]

• In Advance of the Broken Arm (2007)
• This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That (2008)
• Marnie Stern (2010)

• By- (2009)
• Spiritual Bankruptcy (2010)

• Babes (2023, recorded 2009)

• Mantra Hiroshima (2010)
• Telesterion (2011)

as El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

• Cryptomnesia (2009)

• The Money Store (2012)
• No Love Deep Web (2012)
• Government Plates (2013)
• Fashion Week (2015)
• The Powers That B (2015)
• Bottomless Pit (2016)
• Year of the Snitch (2018)

• Exmilitary (2011)

• Death Grips (2011)
• Interview 2016 (2016)
• Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) (2017)
• Gmail and the Restraining Orders (2019)

• Put Some Red on It (2011)
• Father Creeper (2012)

• I've Always Been Good at True Love (2015)
• Scum With Boundaries (2016)
• Bodyguard (2017)

• G.A.S. Get a Star (2021)^[11]
• Dumb Little Fucker (2021)^[12]
• Remnants of Chris (2022)^[13]

• Various Artists (Hella) –If the Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist It Would Be Necessary to Invent It (2002)
• Various Artists (Team Sleep) –The Matrix Reloaded (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) (2003)
• Various Artists (Hella) –You've Got Your Orders – Volume One (2003)
• Various Artists (Les Claypool) –Under the Influence: A Jam Band Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd (2004)
• Various Artists (Hella) –Slaying Since 1996 (2006)
• Various Artists (The Ladies) –Thankful CD (2006)
• Various Artists (Diamond Watch Wrists) –Warp20 (Recreated) (2009)
• Various Artists –Revival Drum Comp (2010)
• Various Artists –Zum Audio Vol 4 Digital (2021)

• Official Myspace page
• The Zach Hill Archive
• Pitchfork interview Zach Hill on Death Grips
• Fools Foundation Art Exhibit April 2006
• Zach Hill at exclaim!

• Suicide Squeeze Records artists
• 1979 births
• Living people
• Musicians from Sacramento, California
• American rock drummers
• Goon Moon members
• Anticon
• 20th-century American drummers
• Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway members
• Amen (American band) members
• Hella (band) members
• Team Sleep members
• 21st-century American drummers
• El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez members
• Sargent House artists
• Drummers from California
• American male drummers

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