[6] Although he is secretive and carefully conceals his identity behind his pseudonym, Zoltron is known for his iconic rock art for bands like Primus, Iggy Pop, Blondie, Black Keys, NIN, Jerry Garcia, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Dweezil Zappa, Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, The Melvins, Les Claypool, Pussy Riot, Jerry Cantrell, PJ Harvey, Die Antwoord, Widespread Panic, Devo.
He has been awarded a 2006 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified gold disc for his work as producer of the grammy-award nominated alternative rock band Primus album Hallucino-Genetics, and a 2004 RIAA certified platinum disc for the Primus album Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.
[10] His mural of a penitent Ronald MacDonald in the Mission District of San Francisco was featured in a Huffington Post story about street art that challenged the McDonaldization of society.
He said, "While I was drawing Ronald as an evil tyrant, I saw a glint of compassion in his eyes, like he was caught in an existential crisis... Maybe suddenly he realized that he was solely responsible for massive rainforest destruction & onset adolescent diabetes.
His work has been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco,[14] New York,[15] Washington DC[16] and Portland by curators keen to capture the unique spirit of the West Coast street art scene.
[33] Zoltron began his career in the rock and roll world in 1996 at Prawn Song Design, a freelance graphic design company founded by Les Claypool of Primus, Larry LaLonde and Adam Gates, focusing on the exploding opportunities of Web-based design in the mid-1990s, creating the entire online catalog for music industry titans Interscope Records, Geffen, Aftermath, Death Row Records, and A & M.[citation needed] By 1998 he had become Creative Director for Prawn Song, responsible for the design and creative direction of all Primus and Les Claypool related projects, including: Antipop, Videoplasty, Rhinoplasty, Hallucino-Genetics: Live 2004, Green Naugahyde, Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, They Can't All Be Zingers, Blame It on the Fish: An Abstract Look at the 2003 Primus Tour de Fromage, Oysterhead, The Grand Pecking Order, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, The Big Eyeball in the Sky, and Les Claypool's solo projects Purple Onion, Of Whales and Woe, Of Fungi and Foe, and Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo.
[8] Primus' singer/bassist Les Claypool remarked that, "It seems of late that bands are adding supplemental DVD material to their album releases to promote record sales.
"[34] In his review for AllMusic, Greg Prato predicted that "while hardcore fans will want to hear what Claypool and the boys have been up to lately in the recording studio, the main attraction of Animals is its exceptional DVD.