Hella Travel to Outer Space on New LP

Sacramento noise duo Hella have called it quits. In their place is "a new, bombastic five-piece Hella," according to a press release.
As previously reported, bassist Carson McWhirter, guitarist Josh Hill (drummer Zach Hill's cousin), and a Nevada City, California singer/former butcher named Aaron Ross join Zach and guitarist Spencer Seim for the band's January 30 Ipecac debut, There's No 666 in Outer Space.
Four of the first five tracks on the album (all except "Let Your Heavies Out") were written with a Seim-Hill-Hill-McWhirter band that dissolved when they were unable to find a satisfactory singer. Once Ross was found, Seim and Zach Hill decided to reform the old group and "update the songs we wrote a while ago... It came together really smoothly. I think that we all play super well together-- it was meant to happen. I just think it took a few years for everybody to be in the right head space to do it," says Seim.
Zach says, "We're all under the impression that [the current lineup] will be playing with us for a long time. This is basically 'our band' now," and they plan to prove themselves while touring in support of the new record for most of 2007.