Hella (band)

Hella is a two-piece, Sacramento, California based band that plays Nintendo influenced instrumental avante indie music. They formed in February 2001 from the remnants of Legs On Earth, a band that had enjoyed some success within the NorCal music scene. The two founding members of Hella are Spencer Seim on guitar and Zach Hill on drums. According to Zach, they didn't always intend to be a duo: " had intentions to start a band that was like... Kinda like what we were doing with just the two of us, but with more people. But, we couldn't find the other people so we decided to do it just with the two of us." {{ref|fishrap}} Consequently, recent tour line-ups have expanded to include Dan Elkan on vocals, rhythm guitar, and synth and Jonathan Hischke on bass guitar.

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Sacramento, California - Nintendo - Instrumental - Avante - Indie music - Legs On Earth - NorCal - Guitar - Zach Hill - Drums - Duo - Vocals - Rhythm guitar - Synth - Jonathan Hischke - Bass guitar

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Hella's earliest release was the self-released Leather Diamonds, a three-song EP that was packaged in a homemade cardboard sleeve and sold at some of their first shows. In 2002 they debuted on 5RC Records with the album Hold Your Horse Is. Since then they have released some EPs and Split releases, as well as two LPs: in 2004 The Devil Isn't Red was released on 5RC Records while the double solo LP Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard came out on Suicide Squeeze Records in 2005. A DVD/CD EP release titled Concentration Face/Homeboy is currently slated for a November 2005 release on 5RC Records.{{ref|conc5rc}}

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Hold Your Horse Is - EPs - Split releases - LPs - The Devil Isn't Red - Double - Solo - Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard

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The band's name comes from the slang word "" that is especially common throughout Northern California. According to the band there really isn't any deeper meaning to the name.{{ref|nameint}}

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In addition to their work in Hella, Spencer Seim and Zach Hill also record with a number of side-projects. Spencer plays drums in a NES theme music cover band called The Advantage (named after the NES Advantage) who are especially notable for using only guitar, bass guitar, and drums to replicate the 8-bit programmed music from the games. Zach is even more prolific, recording albums with Tough Guy Fantasy/Arctic Boys, Flössin, Crime In Choir, Nervous Cop, Zach Hill And The Holy Smokes (the release of which was accompanied by a 138 page book written and illustrated by Hill), as well as playing drums for Chino Moreno's band Team Sleep and Jeordie White and Chris Goss's band Goon Moon.

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Side-projects - NES - Theme music - Cover band - The Advantage - NES Advantage - 8-bit - Flössin - Crime In Choir - Nervous Cop - Zach Hill And The Holy Smokes - Chino Moreno - Team Sleep - Jeordie White - Chris Goss - Goon Moon

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