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	Hella (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The primary members of the band are Spencer Seim on electric guitar and Zach Hill on drums (although both are multi-instrumentalists).
		Hella also expanded their live band to a quartet in 2005, adding Dan Elkan on vocals, rhythm guitar, and synth and Jonathan Hischke on bass guitar in order to render songs from Total Bugs Bunny, and Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard live, in most cases for the first time.
		In addition to their work in Hella, Spencer and Zach have also recorded with a number of side-projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hella_(band) (886 words)

	Zach Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He performs/has performed in numerous Pacific Coast based groups, including Hella, Nervous Cop, and Team Sleep featuring members of Deftones and Helium, as well as Goon Moon.
		Many drummers are surprised when they realize that he only uses one bass drum and a single bass drum pedal when he plays.
		In the song Imaginary Friends off of Hella's Church Gone Wild record, Hill employs his characteristic double-tap bass drum method throughout much of the song, leading many to believe he is using more than one foot do so, when he is only using his right foot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zach_Hill (442 words)

	ROCKZONE.COM: CD Reviews: Hella - Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass
		In most situations I would have just described the makings of a thousands bands, but, as in the case of Hella, there are a few steps skipped there.
		Hella are perhaps the simplest and most complex band I have ever heard.
		Sometimes you just need to know when to give a band that you have never heard of before a chance, and if you are up for something new and different, the Hella should be your boys.
	www.rockzone.com /reviews/hella.shtml (472 words)

	Hella + Need New Body + The Make Believe - PopMatters Concert Review
		The last time I saw Hella, it was on the brink of twilight at the tail end of along day of watching bands at the CMJ Suicide Squeeze showcase at Pianos Lounge.
		Oddly, the band seemed to be waiting for this kind of urging to begin their performance and without further ado, the screen was rolled up and all but one of the members of Need New Body were at their instruments, grinning like cats.
		The band's no-wave dance numbers are risky, barely adhesive things, and ultimately they ended up failing to be engaging because of Bradbury's failure to provide the final bit of synthesis that would have tied the band together.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/h/hella-040530.shtml (1235 words)

	The River Cities' Reader Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		To remove a band member or an element is akin to removing a pancreas or other vital organ from a body.
		Hill is the band’s drummer, and with guitarist Spencer Seim the duo burst onto the scene in 2001.
		Hella dumped its first release, Hold Your Horse Is (and that’s not a typo), on an unsuspecting world in 2002, and between then and early last year put another five releases on the market.
	www.rcreader.com /display_article_print.php3?artid=2206 (636 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This band may not actually be in high school, but I'll do them the service of simply not saying anything bad about them.
		Moving on: Hella is touring as a four-piece, which brings a whole new density to their music.
		Hella is moving away from riffage and towards multipart, progesque suites that aren't plodding in the way Wolf Eyes are, but proved very difficult for me to get into.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /concertreviews/05.04.12-outhud.htm (586 words)

	Hella: The Devil Isn't Red: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hella dance a highly technical, relentlessly suffocating two-step of pummeling percussion and breathless guitar, which, for all their torrential fervor, retain the primitive simplicity of a single-minded two-man sonic tag-team.
		And Hella shreds true even when they go digital: "Brown Medal 2003" sounds like a soup kitchen riot broken up by homeless robots, while "You DJ Parents" draws a straight line to antiquated game tracking.
		Hella's technical proficiency is undeniable, but their vision is to be considered.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hella/devil-isnt-red.shtml (401 words)

	SXSW on Austin360
		Deep within the chaos is a mathematical pattern that attests to the virtuosity of Hella, a term used in California as an adjective to express awesomeness.
		The band, which hails from Philadelphia, is lucky to have two excellent singers, who are easy to tell apart: McMicken has the appealingly wizened voice, while bassist Toby Leaman has the appealingly rough-hewn voice.
		The band is popular wherever metal is played in Austin, but as musicians, they are still coming into their own.
	austin360.com /sxsw/content/sxsw/reviews/16reviews.html;COXnetJSessi... (2538 words)

	No Doubt
		Band accepts him even though he's never been in a band, has long hair and is wearing Mexican sandals.
		Renting out a Hollywood Hills home, the band begins writing songs for the follow up to the big success-and finding their direction; as Gwen said: "We didn't know what kind of music we were going to write because we out grew our old style." Gwen, in love again, has plenty to sing about.
		Band also plays a rocking fun show in Orange County (roots) to lots and lots of fans and in L.A. at the Universal Amphitheater where industry types and celebs chatter but are drowned out by screaming fans.
	www.nodoubt.com /band (6374 words)

	Then It Must Be True - Hella
		I was lucky enough to discover Hella at a time in my life when I was beginning to question my interest in music.
		When we started we wanted a band but we couldn't find people that were necessarily on the same page as what we were trying to do.
		Z: It's not that there were rules in that other band, it's just that there's no guidelines in this band, even though we do concentrate on songs.
	www.thenitmustbetrue.com /hella/hella1.htm (1355 words)

	westword.com \| Music
		As Hella, this modest Sacramento-based noise aggregate (spun from an earlier outfit called Legs on Earth) has been mixing dangerous potions since 2001, when it unveiled Hold Your Horse Is on 5RC Records.
		Hella's free-form approach continues on Chirpin, Seim's more lighthearted and accessible side of the coin.
		A part-time drummer for a full-time Nintendo cover band called the Advantage, Seim incorporates an array of eight-bit bleeps and squelches into his progressive song cycle, turning the whole affair into an electro-punk-infused treatise on the video-game age.
	www.westword.com /issues/2005-04-21/music/music2.html (736 words)

	Mundane Sounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hella is the most appropriately named bands in rock.
		The word "hella" is a slang adverb synonymous with "very," and it totally fits a band that have garnered a reputation for playing hella loud and hella fast, and switching ideas hella quickly.
		They're also hella funny, choosing song titles that invert rock and rap cliches ("Bitches Ain't Shit But Good People," "Welcome to the Jungle; You're Gonna Live!") to communicate their sense of humor in ways that their music might not do directly.
	www.mundanesounds.com /printview.php?id=684 (493 words)

	Splendid: Departments: A Short Talk with Hella
		Editor's Note: This e-mail interview with Hella, conducted by Phillip Buchan, was actually started in November of 2003 -- but due to the vagaries of publication and the fact that bands don't always take e-mail interviews too seriously, we only received the answers a few months ago.
		Splendid: The band has a very intense, special sort of chemistry -- in fact, with there only being two of you, it almost has to, in order to produce a sound as big as the one Hella achieves.
		Splendid: Hella is definitely the sort of band that's best captured live -- in fact, that's how you recorded the last album.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/shorttalk/hella.html (1353 words)

	Hella: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard - PopMatters Music Review
		The Sacramento, California-based duo Hella has made a name for itself as a torchbearer of cranial hemorrhaging instrumental rock; albums like The Devil Isn't Red (2004) and Hold Your Horse Is (2002) displayed a fierce domination of technique, uttered in some kind of molten, broken syntax.
		By splitting in two, Hella has effectively severed the symbiotic relationship upon which its reputation is based.
		The Hella boys have immeasurable talent, as proven by their past (and better) releases; unfortunately, Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard has nothing but complete disregard and contempt for talent.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/h/hella-church.shtml (767 words)

	Utter Trash--Albums
		Hella is a band that, while showing promise in terms of musicianship, is in serious need of structure.
		While King Goblin are far from the most original sounding band I’ve ever heard, they more than make up for it with their talent.
		If this band keeps up the good work, I'd bet you'll be hearing more from them in the future.
	www.uttertrash.net /jan04music3.htm (607 words)

	+ Frenetic Records: Hella - Shop
		Hella is two Sacramento guys on guitar and drums and they've made this loud 'n awesome record, which is super listenable and accessible...While the guitarwork is manic and soaring and epic (akin to Don Cab or Storm & Stress), the drumming is even more insane!
		While it is the big picture of hella that is uncharted, it is the tiny fibers in four tet's case.
		HILL and his band present Masculine Drugs, a hailstorm of a full-length album with thunder claps and lightning snaps that ups the ante from ZACH HILL'S past skill flaunting and certainly pushes the young mindblower to the front of the noise-maker pack.
	www.freneticrecords.com /hella/shop.html (1351 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock CO-CZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The band was led by brothers Jean-Pierre Llabador on guitar and Jean-Claude Llabador on keyboards.
		French prog/fusion band co-led by brothers Jean-Pierre (guitars) and Jean- Claude (guitars and keyboards) Llabador who did at least two records (Coincidence and Clef de Ciel), before Jean-Claude was killed in a tragic auto accident while touring.
		It seemed that the band could never catch a break in New York or LA and were therefore destined to remain a regional success.
	www.gepr.net /co.html (15760 words)

	Loudside.com :: XmusicXcoreX BRAH! Bring teh mosh!
		According to Seim, all Hella does at their home base in Sacramento, CA is practice and record.
		Hella have the group mind of great improvisers and the sweet skill of talented composers.
		But Hella have their own sound and definitely are of their own hearts and minds.
	www.loudside.com /bands?bandID=531 (616 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Hella *
		If there’s one band that knows how to scare up a highly organized stampede and make it sound like an arbitrary, lunging deluge, that’d be Hella.
		While maintaining this speedy complexity, ‘twould be a waste not to slide some sort of code in there as it would be wasteful for an animation team to forego the inscrutable titty shot or drug reference.
		Hella conjures seeming chaos that demands investigation, and by the end of “Top Twenty Notes,” one might be a tad winded.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1250 (337 words)

	Hella - The Devil Isn't Red @ Halo-17.net
		The band really has to be heard to be understood, but briefly, it consists of two guys, one spearheading a brutal percussive attack, and the other guy plays blisteringly fast guitar licks over said percussion.
		Like I said, it has to be heard to be understood, and I make no secret of the fact that one of my goals in life is to make love to the music of this band.
		Impressive, because I imagine that playing even a couple of minutes of this music would be a massive strain on the wrists, tiresome because the band's sonic palette is so limited that at around the halfway point of the album, you're absolutely sick and tired of what has started to sound like an annoying gimmick.
	www.halo-17.net /5438.html (444 words)

	Thrasher Magazine: Hella: guitar fretwork inspired by Nintendo game soundtracks
		Before the band Hella there was Legs on Earth, a four-piece so far ahead of its time it defied description They were mind blowing awesome.
		Seim says each record reflects "whatever our state of mind was in those few months writing the material." Hella experimented with their only use of vocals on the Bitches Ain't Shit But Good People EP (Suicide Squeeze).
		Hella is scoring more and more points with their audience, which are helping change what is accessible or commercial in modern rock.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSE/is_281/ai_n6018581 (1112 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News
		I wasn't sure if anyone was going to want a story on the Sacramento-based duo Hella, but I was certain that this act was destined for a kind of musical celebrity reserved only for true greats, names like Gorp and Pere Ubu and Michael Bolton.
		Back then the band had only one album in its cupboard, Hold Your Horse Is, a ferociously original collection that was burning a hole in my CD player as I tried to journey to the center of its endlessly complex sonic catacombs.
		The band is only two guys, yes, but they sure do cause a ruckus.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2004-03-03/music_1.html (654 words)

	+ Frenetic Records: Crime In Choir - Reviews and Press
		The band introduces keyboards and sequenced drums, upon which a mesmerizing guitar lays itself in an over-dubbing manner.
		Early formations of the group included spazz-rock band Hella's Zach Hill, who would take the Greyhound down from his home in Sacramento, crash on the guys' couches for a few days while they rehearsed, and bus back.
		Although the band's original lineup has changed slightly from its first recording for local indie Omnibus Records, the ingredients are essentially the same.
	www.freneticrecords.com /crime/reviews.html (4978 words)

	thebloomroom's Xanga Site
		So talented, he was moving his fingers hella fast and it sounded great and yeah.
		He was wearing hella tight girl pants, which is usually never attractive to me..
		There was one more band after that but we didn't watch them, we heard them from outside..
	www.xanga.com /thebloomroom (1635 words)

	mtv.com - News - Metal File: Diecast, Hella, Killswitch Engage & More In This Week's Hard News
		The bands play Lansing, Michigan, on October 26; Erie, Pennsylvania, on October 27; Toledo, Ohio, on October 28; and Cleveland on October 29.
		The band will be on tour with System of a Down and Mars Volta through October 11 in Fresno, California.
		Melodic Detroit street-metal band Abandon will enter the studio next week to start working on their second album, much of which is already written.
	mtv.com /news/articles/1510687/20050929/diecast.jhtml?headlines=true (1468 words)

	Urban Dictionary: hella
		Alternatively, Hella can alert other prestigious NorCalers that they are dealing with a higher species much like themselves.
		Hella originated in the bay area like hella years ago.
		Some guy from Vegas tried to tell me hella started in Vegas and I was like "Fuck that.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=hella&page=5 (514 words)

	Suicide Squeeze Records
		Hella are the one and only groundbreaking rock super-duo from Sacramento, California, also known as freaked and fabled guitarist Spencer Seim and celebrated and worshiped drummer Zach Hill.
		On the band’s third full length release, a 2xCD to be released on March 22, 2005, each of these dazzling, amazing, astounding musicians (some may say, composers) holds their own reigns to an entire CD.
		Hill’s “Church Gone Wild” delivers a dark and menacing onslaught of aggression and guts (and vocals!), while Seim’s “Chirpin Hard” brings out a lighthearted but wholly technical and equally impressive spattering of pop and punk melded in the hot pot of the computer and video game age.
	www.suicidesqueeze.net /hella.html (220 words)

	Oh My Rockness ((Hella))
		They both attack the skins in the same way, which is to say an all out uncontrollable fury that borders on cartoonish.
		It's his warbled sense of melody, not to mention his remarkable ability to keep pace with Hill, that is the diesel fuel that makes this band go bonkers.
		This band is fast, fast, fast and their symphonic compositions of discord are like John Cage on a few bottles of Ritalin.
	www.ohmyrockness.com /BandBio.cfm?BandID=2795 (244 words)

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