Mastodon - Medium Rarities

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hopefully it's not true, tragic if it is. What are ya at in terms of certainty? Like 80 or 99%?

[The Great Cull]

I know many folks here lost interest after Crack The Skye but I personally think Hushed And Grim is a highlight. I did  read somewhere though that Hinds didn't really see himself as part of the band so much back then when they recorded that.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That may be true, but his two main contributions to the writing of it are, to me, a central part of what makes it so good as an album. This, notably, is one of the best moments of it:
https://youtu.be/nrMVZvor0X4?si=0XHQei66elfzT4lH

[Squigs]

Hushed and Grim is easily their best since CTS, for me. I like/love them all, but there's a lot going on in H&G and it sounds so massive and especially cathartic in places. Remission it isn't, but that's ok too.

[The Great Cull]

That may be true, but his two main contributions to the writing of it are, to me, a central part of what makes it so good as an album. This, notably, is one of the best moments of it:
https://youtu.be/nrMVZvor0X4?si=0XHQei66elfzT4lH

Great song. I actually don't think there's any filler on there though.

[Pentagrimes]

Hopefully it's not true, tragic if it is. What are ya at in terms of certainty? Like 80 or 99%?

Let's just say not 100% until I see it confirmed somwewhere officially but fairly certain. I'm a little surprised that there's no mention yet in some respects (When I initially posted I thought it maybe had already got out), but at the same time its pretty much only happened in the last 12 hours, and is still being investigated. Certainly the person who told me is reliable.

[Carnage]

A shame, especially given how things were between them lately. You'd always have the hope of a reconciliation somewhere down the line.

Crack The Skye is their peak for me as well. I quite like The Hunter and Once More 'Round The Sun but the last two were fairly dull overall IMO.

[ldj]

Jesus, yeah hopefully it's not true but it definitely seems like he's been spiralling for a while.

Absolute savage guitar player, and he is my favourite vocalist from the band (on record).

Funny character too, even though he had his personal issues.

[StoutAndAle]

Downer, if true - a savage player with real chops. Brent was always the focal point of Mastodon for me every time that I saw them live.

He seemed to go in two-footed on the rest of the band last week. There was an thing on Guitar World (or one of those) where he apparently attacked Troy and Brann's talents in live situations.

As mentioned by others, I have that hoped he'd pull out of the spiral to sort himself and his dealings with Mastodon out.

[Ducky]

Sad if true, but the band has been boring as shit for at least a decade. H&G is bloated mess.

[Trev]

Real shame if it is indeed Brent. Met him in the pub beside the Academy when they played the two nights there. Sat chatting with us for about an hour and bought a round of drinks, seemed like a sound lad

Reminds me of the Children of Bodom situation, Laiho told the band he wasn't going to quit drinking until it killed him so they broke up hoping that might make him get help

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Sad if true, but the band has been boring as shit for at least a decade.

Quite the non sequitur, given what the "sad if true" part is about!

[Ducky]

Well it is sad, and people are discussing how they feel about the band's modern output...

[Bürggermeister]

Well, somebody has updated his wiki page to say "was"...

[open face surgery]

One of his other bands, West End Motel, posted 4/5 pics of him in their stories on IG.

Adam Jones from Tool also posted a pic with Silence by Brain Eno as the tune. Doesn't bode well.