Per Hillestad (born 25 March 1959 in Øvre Årdal, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums) and record producer, known as drummer in Lava and was contributing in releases by a-ha, Vamp, Jonas Fjeld, Bjølsen Valsemølle and Marius Müller.

[1][2] Hillestad founded "supergroup" Lava in Årdal 1977,[1] together with Kjell Hestetun, Stein Eriksen and Svein Dag Hauge.

Lava has among others toured together with the vocalist Randy Crawford in Australia, Asia and Africa.

[3] Hillestad also played on albums by Vigdis Eidsvåg (Mørk Og Mjuk 2000), D.D.E.

(Vi E Konga 2003), Øystein Sunde (Sånn Er'e Bare 2005) and Jan Groth (2006).