# Zach Hill

Zachary Charles Hill (born December 28, 1979) is an American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist. He is best known as the drummer and co-producer of the groups Death Grips, and the I.L.Y's, and as the drummer of math rock band Hella.

## Early life

Zach Hill was born in Sacramento, 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 to classic rock music.
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. He dropped out of high school at age 15 and moved to Nevada City, California, where he started the band Legs on Earth with Julian Imsdahl, Spencer Seim, and cousin Josh Hill. Hill later moved to San Francisco, California where he played drums in the band Crime in Choir before starting Hella in 2001.

## Art

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 album Masculine Drugs released in 2004 on TNI Books and Suicide 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 of Modern Drummer and on the Fools Foundation website.

## Film

Hill was said to be working on an original feature film in 2013, which was confirmed to feature late actress Karen Black in a leading role. 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 either Death Grips or Hill's side-project, the I.L.Y's, would be involved with the soundtrack of the film as well.

## Discography
### Solo releases

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

#### as Xach Hill

* Lil Scuzzy (2011)

### With Hella
#### Albums

* 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)

#### Extended plays

* 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)

#### DVDs

* Portals (2008)

#### Split albums
##### with Dilute

* Live (2003)

##### with Four Tet

* Split Seven Inch Divorce Series 1 (2004)

### With Flössin

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

### With Holy Smokes
#### as Zach Hill & Holy Smokes

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

#### as Holy Smokes

* Talk to Your Kids About Gangs (2006)

### With Team Sleep

* Team Sleep (2005)

### With Mick Barr

* Shred Earthship (2006)
* Volume 2 (2007)
* Volthree (2020)

### With Marnie Stern

* 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)

### With Bygones

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

### With Wavves

* Babes (2023, recorded 2009)

### With Omar Rodríguez-López

* Mantra Hiroshima (2010)
* Telesterion (2011)

#### as El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez

* Cryptomnesia (2009)

### With Death Grips
#### Albums

* 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)

#### Mixtapes

* Exmilitary (2011)

#### Extended plays

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

### With Spoek Mathambo

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

### With the I.L.Y's

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

### With Undo K From Hot

* G.A.S. Get a Star (2021)
* Dumb Little Fucker (2021)
* Remnants of Chris (2022)

### Other bands and collaborations

| Release details | Release | Artist | Additional information |
| Released: 1999 Label: Para-Sight Formats: CD | Lasers and Saviors | Legs on Earth | |
| Released: January 1, 2001 Label: Perishable Formats: CD, LP | 10 Songs | Friend/Enemy | |
| Released: June 25, 2002 Label: Omnibus Formats: CD, LP | Crime in Choir | Crime in Choir | |
| Released: July 30, 2002 Label: Absolutely Kosher/Nail in the Coffin Formats: CD, 12" | Chapel of the Chimes | Xiu Xiu | |
| Released: November 4, 2003 Label: 5 Rue Christine Formats: CD | Nervous Cop | Nervous Cop | |
| Released: November 18, 2003 Label: Jade Tree Formats: CD | Maryland Mansions | Cex | |
| Released: 2005 Label: Mash Down Babylon Formats: CD | Apotheke | Apotheke | |
| Released: January 17, 2005 Label: Frenetic Formats: 2CD | Thank Gods It's Friday/Louisiana Purchase | Toughguy Fantasy/Arctic Boys | |
| Released: May 3, 2005 Label: Temporary Residence Limited Formats: CD | Howard Hello | Howard Hello | |
| Released: February 21, 2006 Label: Temporary Residence Limited Formats: CD, LP | They Mean Us | The Ladies | |
| Released: October 24, 2010 Label: Temporary Residence Limited Formats: CD, LP | Distressed | Damsel | |
| Released: 2007 Label: self-released Formats: CD-R | Flannel Graduate | with No Age | |
| Released: August 14, 2007 Label: self-released Formats: CD-R | Greener Grassing | Them Hills | |
| Released: August 31, 2007 Label: self-released Formats: Digital | "Untitled" | with Ben Weinman | |
| Released: 2008 Label: aRCHIVE Formats: 2DVD | Mick Barr | Mick Barr | |
| Released: April 14, 2009 Label: Warp Formats: CD/2LP | Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian | Prefuse 73 | |
| Released: May 4, 2009 Label: Warp Formats: CD | Ice Capped at Both Ends | Diamond Watch Wrists | |
| Released: October 20, 2009 Label: Porter Formats: CD, LP | Aggressively Humble | Chll Pll | |
| Released: October 28, 2009 Label: Important Formats: CD, LP | Non Meters Volume One | Risil | |
| Released: April 11, 2010 Label: Sundial Formats: Digital | eclecticraft | Aaron Molho | |
| Released: June 15, 2010 Label: Porter Formats: CD, LP | Who Do You Think You Aren't? | with Robby Moncrieff | |
| Released: October 10, 2010 Label: Life's Blood Formats: 2x7" | Split | Mason Lindahl/Ellie Fortune/Raleigh Moncrief/Zach Hill | |
| Released: October 10, 2010 Label: Lex Formats: 3LP+3CD | Unearthing | Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins | |
| Released: February 7, 2011 Label: Joyful Noise Formats: 2LP | Oh Brother | Joan of Arc | |
| Released: July 5, 2011 Label: self-released Formats: Digital | Many Moods | with Delicate Steve | |
| Released: August 6, 2011 Label: Altered Beats Formats: Digital | Initium | Sol Invicto | |
| Released: August 27, 2013 Label: Jackpot Formats: LP | Drumgasm | Weiss/Cameron/Hill | |
| Released: October 14, 2016 Label: Party Smasher, Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, DL | Dissociation | The Dillinger Escape Plan | additional drums on "Dissociation" |
| Released: May 5, 2017 Label: Joyful Noise Formats: LP, Digital | Nervous Cop (EP) | Nervous Cop | |
| Released: February 11, 2022 Label: Sargeant House Formats: DL | Alto Arc EP | Alto Arc (George Clarke, Isamaya Ffrench, Danny L Harle & Trayer Tryon) | additional production on "Yeva's Lullaby" |
| Released: September 1, 2023 Label: self-released Formats: Digital, 7" | Never (EP) | with Lucas Abela | sequencing and envelope generation |

### Other appearances

* 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)