Brent Hinds

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Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher perform with Mastodon on Day 1 of the Heavy Montreal Festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau on August 6, 2016 in Montreal, Canada
Bill Kelliher opens up on Brent Hinds’ surprise Mastodon departure

By Phil Weller Published

News of Hinds’ shock exit was shared just days before the band’s set at the Tool in the Sand festival

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Ben Eller and Bill Kelliher
Mastodon recruit YouTuber for first show following Brent Hinds’ shock departure

By Phil Weller Published

The band mutually parted ways with their founding guitarist just days before they were due to play at the Tool in the Sand festival – and it seems the YouTuber wasn’t given much time to learn the material

Concert, Gigs & Tours
Brent Hinds performs onstage with Mastodon at Douglass Park in Chicago, Illinois on September 22, 2024
Mastodon part ways with Brent Hinds

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Hinds co-founded the band with guitarist Bill Kelliher, bassist Troy Sanders, and drummer Brann Dailor in 2000

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Bands
Brent Hinds stars in Victory Amps’ video as Super Sheriff Dirty B. Hinds
Watch Mastodon’s Brent Hinds turn Super Sheriff and arrest guitarists for tone violations

By Matt Parker Published

Hinds has endorsed Victory Amps’ Sheriff – and taken to the streets of Atlanta to extend the long arm of the law

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Victory Amps VS100 Super Sheriff and Mastodon's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher performing live
Victory Amps overhauls its Sheriff range – and seemingly signs Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher to its ranks

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The British rock-voiced series has been revamped with new Mastodon-endorsed heads and combos

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Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”

By Amit Sharma Published

The Sleep/High On Fire guitarist on his love of Les Pauls, and recruiting the likes of Brent Hinds, Todd Burdette and Jeff Matz for his debut solo album, Pike vs The Automaton

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Matt Pike and Brent Hinds
Matt Pike takes a surprise blues turn with Brent Hinds on new solo track, Land

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Mastodon guitarist lends a wealth of psychedelic licks to the Sleep/High on Fire riff lord’s latest Pike vs The Automaton cut

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[L-R] Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds of Mastodon
Mastodon: “We write our guitar parts separately then show them to each other. We’re not a jam band – we’re more like choreographed acrobatics”

By Jon Wiederhorn Published

Stylistically divergent – yet undoubtedly compatible – Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher unravel Hushed and Grim, the band’s first double album

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Mastodon bring metal to the masses with a performance of Teardrinker on Late Night With Seth Meyers

By Sam Roche Published

The Atlanta stalwarts appeared on the late-night talkshow this week to deliver the dual guitar-heavy track – complete with a surprise new ESP double-cut in the hands of Brent Hinds

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Mastodon’s Brent Hinds teams up with Marcus King to absolutely slay Black Sabbath’s Electric Funeral

By Richard Bienstock Published

Prepare for a full-on Flying V shred-fest

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