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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

Guitarists
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

Guitar Amps
Mojotone Bill Kelliher Hellbender pickup set

Are Bill Kelliher’s new Mojotone Hellbender pickups the most versatile metal humbuckers ever made?

By Matt Parker published

The Mastodon rhythm king’s new signature set uses Alnico II and V ceramic magnets to deliver tones spanning brutal to beautiful

Guitar Pickups
Mastodon, Kate Bush, First Aid Kit

7 guitar-led covers of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill

By Jonathan Horsley published

Kate Bush’s irresistible 1985 hit is driven by synth but as these covers from Placebo, First Aid Kit, Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher and more prove, the song can be just as dramatic on guitar

Music Releases
Troy Sanders

Troy Sanders: “The Teardrinker bass solo turned from a silly joke to an interesting moment that I’d never done in Mastodon before”

By Joel McIver published

The Mastodon bassist and vocalist on why the Atlanta metal institution doubled up for their latest album, Hushed And Grim, and taking the opportunity for a bass solo

Bassists
An all-star band covers Judas Priest on Two Minutes to Late Night

Watch Nili Brosh team up with members of Anthrax and Mastodon for a relentless cover of Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance

By Jackson Maxwell published

Two Minutes to Late Night's latest all-star cover is spearheaded by a three-guitar attack led by Brosh and Anthrax's Jonathan Donais

Music Releases
[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

Music Releases
[L-R] John Mayer, Samantha Fish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Joe Duplantier

The 20 best guitar albums of 2021

By Jonathan Horsley published

Records that stoked creative fires and set the guitar world alight this year, as voted for by you

Music Releases
Bill Kelliher of Mastadon performs at Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill on June 11, 2019 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Bill Kelliher reveals Ron Wood’s signature ESP as his secret studio weapon: “It’s the best-sounding Tele ever”

By Michael Astley-Brown published

The Mastodon guitarist shared his love for the humbucker-equipped Rolling Stones model in a new interview on the making of Hushed and Grim

Electric Guitars
Kim Thayil of Soundgarden performs on stage at Sleep Country Amphitheater on August 29, 2014 in Ridgefield, Washington.

Kim Thayil channeled the loss of Chris Cornell in his solo on the new Mastodon album

By Michael Astley-Brown published

Bill Kelliher details how he and the Soundgarden guitarist approached the recording of Hushed and Grim’s Had It All

Music Releases
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