Mastodon - Medium Rarities

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Loved his vocal style, loved his guitar work, loving slightly less his messy bitch bawling about how it's the other bitches who're messy phase.

[astfgyl]

Brent is in no position to be critiquing anyone's vocals    Love Mastodon and his vocal contributions work well on record but fuckin hell the man sounded like a bag of cats being strangled live. No arguing that he's an excellent guitarist though

      

Snap, he sounds fair fucking bad

[Pentagrimes]

Getting word that Brent Hinds may have ben killed in an accident last night. Hasn't ben officially named yet but the peron who told me is close with them so it's likely true unfortunately. Hasnt been named yet but apparently he was on the motorbike
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/21/person-dead-after-car-crash-atlanta-police-say/

[Eoin McLove]

Ah no. That's terrible.

[The Great Cull]

Terrible if true. The man seems to be in free fall and to not try and sort his stuff out would be a shame.

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah that definitely seems to be the case unfortunately. It's a sad end.

[astfgyl]

Surely the other lads will be out with glowing tributes if this is the case. Hard luck to him

[Squigs]

What would be wrong with that if they do?

Seemingly a very sad end, if this is the case.

[open face surgery]

Shame. Worked a few of their gigs over the years and had a good chat with him on two occasions. Always a buzz.

Last IG posts were 11 hours ago. Can't tell from where.

[The Great Cull]

What would be wrong with that if they do?

Seemingly a very sad end, if this is the case.

I'd absolutely see no harm when they do. I'm sure the decision to fire him was intended for his own good and not for any nefarious reasons.

[OpenSores]

Sad if true alright, he seemed to have been a changed man since his injury. Big fan up until Crack the Skye.

[Pagan Saviour]

To be fair to them they've maintained the lineup - I doubt the decision to let him go came easy. They still have the right to honour their past and friendship. Things change, people change.

[Eoin McLove]

If it is true, and I hope it turns out not to be, it would be utterly against nature for them not to honour him and to mourn him. Even if things had soured between them over the years, they still built up one of the biggest and most important metal bands of the past 25 years. A band who actually stand a chance of stepping in to fill the boots of the big boys in due course, and he was an integral part of that.

[Pentagrimes]

Absolutely.

I suspect it won't be formally confirmed either way for a day or so given there's an investigation pending but if it is, then it would be absolutely shocking if they didn't. The split was definitely not a frivlouous decision I'd say, and they've been fairly respectful of him to my knowledge.

[Eoin McLove]

I don't know how much of their trademark guitar style is down to him and how much is down to Bill, but together they had a magic touch. And his vocals, along with Brann's, elevated the band to another level.