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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Brent hinds - Caught on Camera

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Celebrate the release of the metal masters’ album Marrow Deep in style

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Mastodon surmount personal tragedies to deliver stellar ninth album. "Marrow Deep is a defiant album... Not laughing in the face of death, but not crumbling under it either."

Prog-metal veterans Mastodon's first album since the death of former guitarist Brent Hinds doesn’t hide the seam of anguish at its core

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"Not for the first time, they have snatched joy from the jaws of heartbreak." Mastodon triumph over tragedy with Marrow Deep

The departure of guitarist Brent Hinds in 2025 might've spelled disaster for Mastodon, but the prog metal pioneers are ambitious as ever

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“Nick said, ‘I’m not here to fill Brent’s shoes. I want to help write the future of Mastodon’”: Troy Sanders on rebuilding Mastodon and why new guitarist Nick Johnston was an instant fit

Mastodon’s biggest line-up change could have derailed them. Instead, it inspired one of the most ambitious albums of their career

Guitar World

“Brent texted me when that was all stirred up, and he was like, ‘Dude, I can’t believe people think I punched you in the face!’”: Mastodon's Brann Dailor and Troy Sanders on their complicated relationship with the late Brent Hinds

On new album Marrow Deep, the prog-metal behemoths pay tribute to their former guitarist who died last year

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‘He liked to get people’s blood boiling’: metal masters Mastodon on the loss of bandmate Brent Hinds – and his shocking words before his death

The Grammy-winning band had an acrimonious rift with Hinds – then he died in a motorbike crash. They explain how they’re paying tribute on their new album, and why their love for each other never ended

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“One of the most consistent forces in heavy music”: Every Mastodon album ranked from worst to best

Re-acquaint yourself with the Atlanta behemoth’s back-catalogue before Marrow Deep comes out in August

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"I was like, He's either really gone off the rails and he's in jail, he's killed somebody… or he's dead. And it was the latter." Mastodon reveal the exact moment that they learned that their former bandmate Brent Hinds had died

Mastodon were informed of Brent Hinds' death via a phone call from the guitarist's ex-wife

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“We’re thrilled we’ve got other members who are just over the moon to be in the band with us”: Mastodon share new single with Josh Homme – and add another member to the band

The band will release their ninth album, Marrow Deep, on August 28

Guitar World

"It’s reminiscent of the very beginning of our band, where all members are hungry, we're united, and excited to get to work." Mastodon reveal new album Marrow Deep, expand to a five-piece and recruit Josh Homme for new single

The progressive sludge metallers will release their ninth album on August 28

Metal Hammer

“We thought the band was over. He's crossed the line – he's gone too far”: Mastodon open up about their relationship with Brent Hinds – and the devastating brain injury that nearly ended everything

Nearly one year on from his tragic death, Bill Kelliher, Troy Sanders, and Brann Dailor discuss the highs and lows of their 25-year relationship with Hinds

Guitar World

"He was a wild man, our wild man, and that came with some challenges. Losing him has meant sitting with a type of grief we never expected." Mastodon reveal reasons for late guitarist Brent Hinds' departure in new film

The Mastodon in the Room is available to watch on YouTube

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“When the first riff came together, we locked in and played it for 100 hours”: How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from Southern misfits to a 21st-century sensation

Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found

Metal Hammer

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: June 8, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Europe, Mastodon, Stanley Simmons and more

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“We miss him and we love him, also”: Watch Mastodon give new single Your Ghost Again its live debut and dedicate it to late guitarist Brent Hinds

The Atlanta band played their latest song at their European tour kickoff last week

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"In many ways that entire album feels like we were rebelling against ourselves." How Mastodon overcame moments of self-doubt and rebuilt themselves from the ground up on The Hunter

In 2011, Mastodon wrote an album that would fly in the face of everything we thought we knew about them. but they had to fight hard to make it happen...

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Cool new proggy sounds from Gentle Giant, Voyage 35, Mastodon and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Long Earth, Pelagic United, Ditch The Demon, John Bassett and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Guitar World

“I kept seeing him out the corner of my eye, where he’d be with his guitar”: Mastodon’s first single with their new guitarist is a powerful tribute to Brent Hinds

Your Ghost Again is the lead single from the band’s ninth album, Poisonous Weapons

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“My portion of the song is all about Brent, and for Brent”: Mastodon return with trippy single Your Ghost Again, a tribute to late founding guitarist Brent Hinds

Hinds departed the band last March and died in a motorcycle accident, aged 51, in August

Louder

"She was looking at her pill bottles. I knew she was going to die so I was like, 'Put it down. Live right now.'" Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed

A cancer tragedy and other real-life dramas inspired Mastodon’s seventh album Emperor Of Sand, which they believe was 17 years in the making

Guitar World

“One of the last guitar solos he recorded”: Before he died, Brent Hinds recorded a solo for a Marcus King track – and it’s been released

The late guitar great made a surprise guest appearance on King’s latest release

Guitar World

“The Silver Burst is synonymous with the band. We were talking about how cool it would be to continue that tradition”: Nick Johnston embraces his Mastodon turn with his most metal signature Schecter yet

The guitar completes Johnston’s “evolution” from a single-coil loyalist to twin humbucker convert

Guitar World

“I want to dedicate it to everyone in the guitar shop I grew up in and everyone in a bedroom with a dream”: Guitar at the Grammys 2026 – Slash and Andrew Watt pay tribute to Ozzy, Bruno Mars takes a solo, but Brent Hinds excluded from In Memoriam segment

Guitar acts and guitar-driven records won big at music’s biggest night, across myriad different genres

Metal Hammer

"What will his legacy be? His guitar playing. He could bend just one note and tell a whole story. I can hear David Gilmour in his playing." Slipknot member Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella pays tribute to Mastodon guitarist and his dear friend, Brent Hinds

V-Man once worked as Brent Hinds' guitar tech and became lifelong bros with the Mastodon man

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“When the first riff came together, we locked in and played it for 100 hours.” How a song about a big angry whale helped four Southern misfits hang with Slipknot and Slayer - and become 21st century metal trailblazers

Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found with the lead single of 2004 masterstroke Leviathan

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