The American guitarist Brent Hinds, until recently, a guitarist in the influential metal band Mastodon, died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday at a motorcycle accident in the city of Atlanta. He was 51 years old. Hinds became according to Atlanta News On his Harley Davidson scooped by a car that did not give him priority.
“We are in shock and try to realize that we have lost this creative power, with whom we shared so many triumphs and milestones, and made music that touched the hearts of so many,” Mastodon writes down Instagram.
It was in Atlanta that Brent Hinds founded Mastodon in 2000, with bass player Troy Sanders, drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher. The special fast guitar work From Hinds he would partly owe his knowledge of the Banjo. He took over the fast fingerwork of that instrument in his guitar playing.
In combination with the complex drum structures of Dailor and the use of multiple singing voices, Mastodon quickly stood out within the metal world with a unique sound. The group made a mixture of progressive rock, dragging stoner rock and coughing sludge metal. Hinds was one of the three singers, with a characteristic tattoo in his face and his somewhat pinched voice. Their love for neurosis and Melvins tried to combine the four with the sound of bands such as Iron Maiden and Thin Lizzy.
Subtop of the metal
For their debut Remission, which opens with the twisted roar of the Tyranossaurus Jurassic Parkthey brought in a record deal at the large metalabel Relapse. The ‘complexity of Dream Theater’ and the ‘setting of Black Sabbath’, music site wrote Pitchfork. With the plates Leviathan,, ” Blood Mountain (with a guest role for Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme) and Crack the Skye They maneuvered themselves in the subtop of the metal and they seemed to be one of the new big headliners.
Mastodon did tours with Slayer, Metallica and other big names. They won a Grammy in 2017 – and were nominated six times for the prestigious music prizes. In the Netherlands, the group played at festivals PinkpopLowlands, Fortarock and Bospop, and up to Ahoy and the AFAS Live (then Heineken Music Hall).
In 2012 they made a striking collaboration with singer Feist, on the picture Feistodone. And in 2015 the band wrote a song for the Game of Thrones-Soundtrack, and played Hinds together with Kelliher and Dailor in an episode as ‘Wildlings’. In addition to Mastodon, Hinds also played in surf rock group Fiend Without A Face, Giraffe Tongue Orchestra with members of Alice in Chains, The Mars Volta and Dillinger Escape Plan, and Legend of the Seagullmen, including tool drummer Danny Carey.
Unpredictable behavior
But the promise of Grote Nieuwe Headliner – although they were the closing of Eindhoven last weekend at the Eindhoven Dynamo Metal Fest – is never completely delayed. This is partly due to the difficult liberputation of the band. Hinds’ vocals in particular turned out to be problematic, and his behavior was not always predictable. That started early on by the way: on the very first rehearsal of the band, he would have been too drunk to play. In 2008, Hinds rose a head wound, reportedly after he provoked a fight with a band member of System of A Down.
In recent years that seemed a thing of the past, the band was in shape and they gave strong shows. But in the background it brewed, and in March this year Mastodon announced that Hinds and the band are friendly had been separated. In Pislinke Instagram messages, Hinds soon made it clear that he had been thrown out of the band. He wrote: “I will not miss that shit band with terrible people.”
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