{"id":489898,"date":"2026-06-09T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489898\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:00:16","slug":"watch-mastodon-give-new-single-your-ghost-again-its-live-debut-and-dedicate-it-to-late-guitarist-brent-hinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489898\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mastodon give new single Your Ghost Again its live debut and dedicate it to late guitarist Brent Hinds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastodon<\/a> dedicated their new single, Your Ghost Again<\/a>, to late founding guitarist Brent Hinds as they performed it live for the first time ever last week.<\/p>\n

At the first date of their ongoing European tour at the O2 Universum in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 3, the Atlanta progressive sludge metal band\u2019s singer\/bassist Troy Sanders highlighted a sign from a fan which he said read, \u201cHe will forever be in our hearts. Brent Hinds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d he added. \u201cThat brings us to something we don\u2019t do very often. We\u2019d like to play a brand-new song for you guys. [\u2026] This is the first song of our entire career that wasn\u2019t worked on with our friend Brent. He passed away last year, so we\u2019d like to do a new song and dedicate it to Brent because we miss him and we love him, also.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watch Sanders\u2019 speech and the performance below.<\/p>\n

Hinds died on August 20, aged 51, after his motorcycle collided with an SUV in his adopted hometown of Atlanta. He\u2019d previously parted ways with Mastodon in March. Your Ghost Again was released on June 2 and was written about the late guitarist.<\/p>\n

Drummer\/vocalist Brann Dailor explained the meaning behind the song in a statement, saying, \u201cYour Ghost Again is about being in those familiar places you used to be with people, which for us is in the studio. I just kept seeing [Hinds] out of the corner of my eye, where he would normally be with his guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\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

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Sanders said that his lyrical portion of the track was \u201call about Brent, and for Brent. The bridge lyrics are two lines of pure gratitude towards Brent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Your Ghost Again was the follow-up to 2024\u2019s Floods Of Triton, which was made in collaboration with fellow US metal heavyweights Lamb Of God<\/a>. The new song is likely to appear on Mastodon\u2019s upcoming and as-yet-unannounced ninth studio album, which has been completed.<\/p>\n

On August 23, three days after Hinds\u2019 death, Dailor paid tribute to the guitarist onstage during a concert in Alaska.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe loved him so, so, so very much,\u201d he told the live audience. \u201cAnd we had the ups and downs of a 25-year relationship. You know what I mean? It\u2019s not always perfect, it\u2019s not always amazing, but we were brothers to the end. And we really loved each other and we made a lot, a lot of very beautiful music together. And I think that that\u2019s gonna stand the test of time, evidenced by you people here tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mastodon have played live with guitarist Nick Johnson since Hinds\u2019 exit. Kelliher has previously hinted that Johnson was involved in the writing and recording of their upcoming album. The band\u2019s European tour continues on Tuesday (June 9) at Komplex in Zurich, Switzerland, and they will take the stage at Download festival in Donington, UK on June 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mastodon dedicated their new single, Your Ghost Again, to late founding guitarist Brent Hinds as they performed it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-489898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}