{"id":710544,"date":"2026-06-02T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:34:08","slug":"mastodon-unleash-single-your-ghost-again-as-tribute-to-brent-hinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Unleash Single “Your Ghost Again” as Tribute to Brent Hinds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastodon<\/a> have released a new single titled \u201cYour Ghost Again,\u201d the first preview of their yet-to-be-announced nintth studio album.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Ghost Again\u201d deals directly with the band\u2019s feelings following the tragic passing of former guitarist Brent Hinds<\/a> last year at only 51 years old.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYour Ghost Again\u201d features the new expanded five-piece lineup of Mastodon, including new guitarist Nick Johnston and longtime touring and session keyboardist Jo\u00e3o Nogueira as full-time members.<\/p>\n

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The song is a powerful return to the overactive sludge metal of the band\u2019s early years with strong reminiscence of Leviathan, their initial breakthrough album, especially in its ferocious drumming and country licks. The chorus is the enormous emotionalism of Mastodon\u2019s prog rock years with the outro featuring both a classic prog keyboard-driven section and an absolutely vicious closing sludge riff.<\/p>\n

Drummer and vocalist Brann Dailor said, \u201c\u2018Your Ghost Again\u2019 is about being in those familiar places you used to be with people all the time, which for us was in the studio. I just kept seeing [Brent] out of the corner of my eye, where he would normally be with his guitar. It\u2019s about that: Your mind plays tricks on you, especially so soon after someone dies and you\u2019re in the places where they always were. You just see them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guitarist Bill Kelliher said, \u201cWe wanted to pick a song that sounds like Mastodon, and that has all the things in there, because it\u2019s the first impression of what people are gonna hear. It speaks about things that have just happened and people passing, I could go deep but I don\u2019t want to because a lot of that shit\u2019s personal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders said, \u201cThe bridge lyrics are two lines of pure gratitude towards Brent. It\u2019s \u2018all the gifts from you, now you can take them back where you must go,\u2019 meaning you came into my life, you exposed me to things that blew my mind, together we conquered thousands of stages around the world, had magical moments that we can never repeat again, but all the beauty that you brought it still remains, always will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mastodon are about to kick off a UK\/European tour, and they\u2019ve just announced a fall North American outing<\/a> featuring support from Deafheaven and Alcest. An\u00a0artist pre-sale<\/a> begins Wednesday, June 3rd, at 10 a.m. local time using the code MASTO26\u00a0via\u00a0Ticketmaster<\/a>, with a general on-sale starting Friday, June 5th, at 10 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n

Check out the new song \u201cYour Ghost Again\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mastodon have released a new single titled \u201cYour Ghost Again,\u201d the first preview of their yet-to-be-announced nintth studio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-710544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}