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Zach Hill - Hella/Marnie Stern

To watch Zach Hill is exhausting. To copy him would be suicidal. Topless and slick with perspiration, a cyclone of hair and sinew, fusing berserker power with surgical accuracy, he is the human fill.

When the self-taught 30-year-old takes the stool – and that's pretty often, between his day job with California math-rockers Hella and his endless array of West Coast side-projects – it's a sensory overload. Jaws hang slack in the moshpit at his frantic snare work, slip-sliding time signatures and killer kick technique (it sounds like he's got two bass drums – he hasn't).

By the end, his hands are raw, the kit is sobbing, and the audience is spent. But you'll still want more.

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Recommended listening

Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard - Hella (Suicide Squeeze) Buy here: Amazon | HMV | Play
In Advance Of The Broken Arm - Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars) Buy here: Amazon | HMV | Play

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