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Former guitarist in Mastodon is dead after an mc crash in Atlanta Wednesday

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/21/former-guitarist-co-founder-heavy-metal-band-mastodon-dies-atlanta-motorcycle-crash/

Finally.

F

Did not see the other, ignore my tread and use this :
>>127470246

>>127471184 (OP)
Which MC did he crash into? I get that these rocker guys don't like rap, but it's not worth your life

>>127471184 (OP)
he won't get a sticky

>>127471792
Why?

At what point are you a sensitive little faggot if you outright say you don't like motorbikes? I'm sure riding them is a feeling like no other but last year my little brother crashed over a bridge and had to have his knee replaced, not to mention this and countless other examples.

>>127472034
it's just objectively true that cars are preferable in many ways

>>127471184 (OP)
I bet a jeet made a u-turn in front of him.

>>127471184 (OP)
KWAB
>>127472034
They're for homosexuals. You get what's coming to you if you choose to continue you riding them.

>>127471184 (OP)
That's it, I'm putting up a sign in my yard to get something done about these traffic accidents

>>127471231
fag

>>127472034
Youre not. Youre a sensitive little faggot if you get your panties in a bunch over someone else saying they dont like motorcycles.
>"loud pipes save lives"
>so do helmets

>>127471184 (OP)
Mastodon Issue Statement on Brent Hinds’ Death
>“We are in a state of unfathomable sadness and grief… last night Brent Hinds passed away as a result of a tragic accident. We are heartbroken, shocked, and still trying to process the loss of this creative force with whom we’ve shared so many triumphs, milestones, and the creation of music that has touched the hearts of so many. Our hearts are with Brent’s family, friends, and fans. At this time, we please ask that you respect everyone’s privacy during this difficult time.
>“RIP Brent.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNn8zQwJJhh/

>>127471184 (OP)
I hate hearing about motorcycle crash victims. I end up picturing them in not so healthy ways.

>>127471184 (OP)
>hit by woman driver

The most shocking part is that he wasn't at fault. He did nothing wrong. I expected this headline in a couple years due to liver failure or something. Not a fucking accident. Just a terrible thing to happen.

This album was overhated, and their last good album.

>>127475482
All of their albums are good.

>>127472034
Just not worth it to ride motorcycles in an age when everyone drives giant SUVs/trucks while looking at their phone

He really had some great riffs, rest in peace and fuck this bastard life

I will never ride a motorcycle.

what a fucking coincidence he was just kicked out of the band

Very sad news, I loved his playing and vocals. desu this makes me want a new mastodon album even less now since not only is he not on the album, he's no longer with us, so it'll just be a reminder of his absents.

>>127471956
Mastodon aren't very big in India.

>>127471184 (OP)
Rest easy jaguar god

>>127471184 (OP)
I don't even know one mastodon song. Were they dinosaur themed doom-metal or what?

>>127475482
>that album art

>>127472034
as a means of transportation it is just straight up one of the worst options

>>127477263
It's a photo of a wood statue btw

>>127471184 (OP)
RIP. I don't even like Mastadon but they seem legit

>>127472034
Not liking bikes is valid. It is a mode of transportation without a crash survival mechanism. There is nothing blocking you from the elements.

>>127471184 (OP)
lmao the nigga from crashtodon is dead? the racist ass nigga from crashtodon is crashed n gone lol lmao

>>127477971
>racist nigga
Proof? Ay bruh, just cause he not a melanin rich nigga don't mean he racist

>>127477981
how you think he got those stitches in his head? this racist ass cracker was trying to buck break a nigga and got got

Thought it was an OD or something when I heard he had died.

>>127477628
It's one of the only options in Asia. Life has no meaning there.

So we're just not going to have a sticky for this shit?

>>127478158
It’s disgusting that we don’t have a sticky for this, Remission, Crack the Skye, and Blood Mountain are absolutely /mu/core.
This is where Mastodon was recommended for year on end.

>>127478265
>Crack the Onions

>>127478085
In India though they go like 30 MPH

>>127475482
Once more round the sun is better
I could never get into Emperor or Hushed though

>>127472034
My uncle walks with a cane and weighs 300 pounds while living off disability in a place that, on paper, belongs to a dead person because he had his tibia dragged a quarter mile through dirt and gravel after a crash. He took me to the shooting range when I was a kid, and he got me into Sabbath (he had a soft spot for Born Again but I don't hold it against him)
It's depressing how much of a hermit he is now, he just can't do anything because he's never not felt pain since the 80s.

>>127478158
fuck you timmy basterd bich

>>127479273
>he had a soft spot for Born Again
THE BITCH WAS TRASHED

>>127475482
last good album was blood mountain. getting the dorky drummer to start being a full-time streamer was the end of the band for me

>>127471184 (OP)
>speedrun turning into a lolcow
>dies
lolwut

>>127475464
Thats just the game of driving bro, retard drivers that have a deathwish though want to play on hard mode with two wheels at high speeds.

>killed by some dumb Karen in her SUV

Grim

>>127477028
His nasally vocals were great. I haven't really listened to much since the Hunter, but it seems like they've been using more and more of the drummer's clean vocals, and he fucking sucks

Crack the skye was always my favorite
RIP

>>127471184 (OP)
This hit hard man.
I lost a lot of interest in Mastodon over the years as they shifted towards becoming the Bill & Brann show with Troy and special guest Brent Hinds. Was looking forward to hearing his output once things had settled down. Should've checked out Fiend Without a Face when they were in Europe.
We lost a truly unique musician with him.

>>127474342
A helmet isnt going to save you from being crushed by some dumb bitch in a BMW SUV scrolling tiktok

Bikes are cool but I'd never ride one nowadays unless I was way the fuck out in the country and id probably haul it there in a trailer desu. People are fucking retarded now.

>>127480784
I'm not much into who made what at Mastodon but I've always liked Brent's singing voice and his guitar playing style, he was really talented, RIP.

>>127475482
Emperor of sand is not that bad at all and I'll take it over Once More Around the Sun anyday, that one was a snooze. Actually that's really the only dip for me.

Ranking:
1. Crack the Skye
2. Leviathan
3. Blood Mountain
4. Remission
5. The Hunter
6. Emperor of Sand
7. Hushed and Grim
8. Once More Around the Sun

>>127479737
Kek
>>127480592
And hushed

RIP Brent

>>127480912
There is a strong correlation between less Brent and more Brent and Great and Mid Mastodon albums.
The Beast was the best song on the last album, unsurprisingly.
They did him dirty or maybe he did himself dirty, idk but either way we all suffered as a result.

Saw them in 21 in Austin when they opened for Ghost. They fucking rocked. Damaged my hearing straight up. This is a bummer I didn’t even know he left

>>127471184 (OP)
RIP.

Fuck, these guys were awesome; one of my favourites to go see live.

>>127471184 (OP)
fuck that
the dude wrote some really good stuff, CtS is one of the modern goats
F

>>127471184 (OP)
RIP

I just find myself binging live performances of The Last Baron and The Czar, along with Colony of Birchmen and so many other tracks.

Thank you for your music, rest in peace.

wtf I walk by that intersection almost every day and have almost been killed myself by SUV's who don't check before turning

>>127471184 (OP)

Reminder: EVH didn't get a sticky either

>>127479349
>muh sticky that would have been 95% LITERALLY WHO? posts
love him and the band but nobody needed that

>>127480980
>be me
>rise mc but dont bother to wear a helmet because im going or die anyway
>????????
>????????
>dies

>>127485079
worthless board

>>127471184 (OP)
I guess I'm cranking Crack the Skye tonight, F

>>127485053
just being in Atlanta is a health hazard

>>127478265
This is a pop music board now chuddie

leviathan > crack the skye > remission > blood mountain > once more round the sun > then the other 3 more or less equal
but no stinkers in the discog. next album is gonna fucking suck

>>127487419
I genuinely hope they don't make a new album. His absence will be a massive hole. Just start a new band at this point.

>>127487485
they have to call it something else for sure, would be so dumb if they put out a new "mastodon" album after this

CRASH VIDEO JUST DROPPED

>>127485519
There was a thread that hit bump limit on the day he died and no one was posting that, dumb fuck

>>127471184 (OP)
RIP bro.

I think he was probably murdered by his former bandmates who kicked him out and have been treating him like shit.

>>127488330
Not it, it happened after dark. The dude in this video didn't die either

>>127489548
i legit think so even though he was the only guy keeping them from being Linkin Park

here is where he crashed

A Mastodon inner circle member who was there from the beginning is posting the scoop. She took care of the band and knows them all closely from the Atlanta community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnFUXyStpxU

She's taking one for the team to ask others to give the band privacy.

>>127472034
If your parents raised you right, you knew they were too dangerous to drive by the time you were like 8. My dad loves me so he instilled a healthy fear of them in me at a young age.

Cranking Blood Mountain with a stiff drink right now. Pendulous Skin always hit hard for me but it will have extra weight to it now. Saw the group live so many times and had a chance to meet Brent beside a merch booth before a show once.

>>127471184 (OP)
Ride the lightning, crash like thunder

>>127477263
implying it's good, right?

>>127471184 (OP)
One of my family members died the same way, why can’t people fucking pay attention when they drive it’s not fucking hard. Metal has lost another great musician. His music with Mastodon got me through so much shit, I remember jamming Crack the Skye in middle school while I was living with my abusive father, shit was an escape for me. This is truly heartbreaking.

>>127472034
I only hate them for the noise they make. Objectively cars are more dangerous.

>>127471188
fpbp

Band peaked early on

>>127489610
>The dude in this video didn't die
Shame, really.

>>127492929
>Objectively cars are more dangerous.
To whom?

>>127493183
Society really.

>>127486934
As someone who is used to turning right on red in their home city, can confirm

>>127478158
>>127478265
>>127479349
im pretty sure the catalog era ended the sticky for artists death thing. before you used to go through 10 pages of threads to find the thread but now these threads just haunt the catalog for a couple of days before they fall off. its time to accept that unless its a really big time artist we aren't getting stickies

>>127489733
>Memorial drive
Didn't even think about that until now. Eerie

And musicians complain about not making enough money on their music?

>>127471184 (OP)
>MASTODON Pays Tribute To Their Ex-Guitarist BRENT HINDS During Their First Show Since HINDS' Passing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYLYDdoM2-Q
This made me cry...RIP Brent

>>127494741
>this shooped clickbait image is an accurate representation of his lifestyle
you must be brown

>>127489733
>Cemetery right there
At least they didn't have to travel far to bury him

>>127494815
Fuck off with the racism

>>127475430
what's sir paul tearing up about? is this from let it be?

>>127495915
stop thinking clickbait youtube videos are 100% accurate ranjesh

>>127496912
It's AI you stupid retard

>>127493336
if anything it's to avoid having the catalog shit up with 20 different threads about the same thing, which obviously wasn't going to happen here and hence no sticky
and btw vin scully got one in /sp/ and it was just an ugly mess of europoors literallywho posting while crying about divegrass faggots not getting stickies and ameribros telling them to fuck off

>>127472490
the only faggot here is you.

>>127477995
go back to Africa, Jamal

>>127497070
>>127494815
He is clearly joking, must suck having a sub 80 IQ

>>127490150
then why make a statement at all?

>>127497491
>BTFO realizing you believed clickbait bullshit
>"n-no u!"
brown people behavior

>>127497830
are the "brown people" in the room with you right now anon?

^yes they are in the thread with me right now, see above

>>127480622
I actually like Branns clean vocals but they lean on them way too much now. Mastodon works best when all 3 of them are trading vocals more evenly.
They need to get Bill to sing too. His growls/bellow is so primal.

>>127499820
i agree but it does make sense since everything post 'crack the skye' has been approaching radio rock more and more. brann has the most 'accessible' voice.
fuck bros. this one is different. i cant stop thinking about it. i measure moments in my life in albums and so many of those moments have been mastodon albums. there could have been the bad breakup and then, 5-10 years later, brent rejoins and we get another great album. but no, its gone. anything that comes after, album-wise, will just be half hearted and out of touch. the band is gone. death and space.
im drunk and sad bros.

Beautiful tribute by Uncle Ben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMNxgpCJeg

>>127492905
I saw them at a tiny little venue in Seattle during Crack the Skye tour, and they were so fucking good live, it was ridiculous. Probably the best performance I've ever seen live. That album is probably one of the best of the century so far. Way up there. Rivaled by only one or two albums I can think of.
And man, his voice and guitar made that album and Blood Mountain too. RIP.

Bill just posted some completely normal picture of him in Alaska smiling and the caption is some shit like “Wow, what a great state!” lol. Nobody wants to acknowledge it but that’s so ridiculous, you might as well have gone all the way and posted something like “Yup! Nothing out of the ordinary yall! I love the great outdoors!”

>>127502508
Yeah, I kind of suspect that Billy boy is emotionally retarded.

>>127475482
The Curl of the Burl is one of their best song. catchy but heavy at the same time.
Early 2000s had these new wave of bands from the US who had somehow punk roots in their approach but fused metal and psychedelia, melody and aggression. Torche, Kylesa, Mastodon, High on Fire, Mastodon, Big Business. Mainly inspired by Melvins and Neurosis but with a personal take each one of them. Around 2008-2010 all those bands were active and kicking and putting out some great music, and I guess they were all in good terms between each other, touring together etc.
the world was already to stupid to make it become a trend with a name even tho some magazine tried, but those bands deserve the credit for being the last good scene of bands coming out at the same time. good times

>>127502890
>Torche, Kylesa, Mastodon, High on Fire, Mastodon, Big Business.
and Baroness of course. their first album is great

>>127502890
Curl of the burl is my fav, it's so catchy

>>127475482
>It was titled "The Hunter" in honour of singer and lead guitarist Brent Hinds' brother, who died in a hunting accident while the band were making the record.

Didn't know this

>>127502508
I just saw that post talk about cope, no one fucking cares Bill, band is over

>>127495897
word is he was thrown from the crash directly into an open grave!

>>127503180
and Crack the Skye is dedicated to Brann Dailor's sister Skye who took her own life at 14yo

>>127504551
Tragic story, that. The line "I tried to burrow a hole into the ground, breaking all the fingers and the nails from my hand" in Oblivion is directly referring to when Brann, stoned out of his mind, tried to dig up her casket.
Maybe the boys can give Brent a proper sendoff in the form of an album. Probably would be better if they don't have anyone try to fill his role as guitarist in that case.

>>127471184 (OP)
Requiescat in pace.

>>127504907
THIS

I'd prefer Bill try to write parts like Brent as a tribute, but he is busy in Alasaka

>>127475482
> the blunder
their first (but not last) bad album
a stain on their legacy

>>127479107
>>127481016
Emperor of Sand deserves more love, Jaguar God alone lifts it up a lot for being one of their best songs. Steambreather and Scorpion Breath have some great vibes. I like Roots Remain a lot for the vocals, too. Show Yourself is decent for what it is as well, not much to dislike there DESU.

>>127475464
Until more info comes out we have absolutely no way of knowing this
It was dark. Was he speeding and that's why the SUV didn't see him and didn't yield? Was he driving erratically swerving in traffic? He was a raging piece of shit alcoholic drug user going through a lot of mental issues. Was he drunk? On drugs? Was he riding impaired?
Until more info or the CCTV footage comes out, I'm not saying he's innocent

>>127481016
can't agree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVn0mjvD3g

>>127504907
I'd be surprised if they don't write an album for him. They did it for their manager with the last album after all.

>>127505540
>Busy in Alaska
They played a show there, the fuck you want him to do? Just sit in his trailer crying?

>>127504907
https://youtu.be/egDSTxhsXsc?si=kHE4Mt9xUj_0msnk

>>127506874
Holy shit is every Mastodon album dedicatwd to someone's death?

>>127481016
Not a bad ranking. For me it would probably be:
1. Blood Mountain = Crack the Skye
2. Remission
3. Leviathan
4. The Hunter
5. Hushed and Grm
6. Emperor of Sand
7. Once More Around the Sun

>>127481016
Not a bad ranking. For me it would probably be:
1. Blood Mountain = Crack the Skye
2. Remission
3. Leviathan = The Hunter
4. Hushed and Grm = Emperor of Sand
5. Once More Around the Sun

Why is once more round the sun ranked so low it's better than emperor of sand

>>127509710
For my ranking I actually could (or should) have put it on 4. Those 3 albums are my least favourites, but are great albums imo and have some of my favourite individual songs.

Here's my personal ranking; none of their albums are bad. They are a phenomenal band that has evolved and matured significantly over the years.

>>127509858
Also a good ranking. And you're 100% right. Some of the albums didn't hit for me initially because of the changes to the sound, but none of them were actually bad and always grew on me.

I forgot Cold Dark Place too. So revised listing:
1. Blood Mountain = Crack the Skye
2. Remission = Cold Dark Place
3. Leviathan = The Hunter
4. Hushed and Grm = Emperor of Sand = Once More Around the Sun

>>127509851
Yes idk emperor was meh once more round the sun has like one bad song with the cringy let's rock and roll chant

>>127509891
The "Lets rock and roll" chant alawys takes me out of it to be honest. I think that's why it's on the same tier as Emperor of Sand.