{"id":567917,"date":"2026-07-31T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567917\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:22:20","slug":"mastodons-brann-dailor-and-troy-sanders-on-the-late-brent-hinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567917\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon’s Brann Dailor and Troy Sanders on the late Brent Hinds"},"content":{"rendered":"

They don\u2019t make guitar players like the late Brent Hinds<\/a> anymore. But maybe they never did. The former Mastodon guitarist, who died in a motorcycle clash in August 2025, aged 51, was the Atlanta, Georgia prog-metallers\u2019 wild card.<\/p>\n

He was the player who brought countrified bluegrass virtuosity to metal guitar<\/a>, and a little danger to Mastodon. He was their wild card and a wild man. That brought with it some tension. He was never one for an early night.<\/p>\n

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Hinds\u2019 exit from the band in March 2025 was messy. There was acrimony. Hinds had a few choice words to say about his former bandmates<\/a> online. Drummer Brann Dailor turning up in public with a black eye only added to the speculation.<\/p>\n

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But in a recent interview with The Guardian<\/a>, Dailor, and Mastodon bassist\/vocalist Troy Sanders, busted a few myths about Hinds\u2019 exit, and reflected on their relationship with him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrent texted me when that was all stirred up, and he was like, \u2018Dude, I can\u2019t believe people think I punched you in the face!\u2019\u201d says Dailor.<\/p>\n

That was one rumour put to bed.<\/p>\n

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Also, all that trash talk was just Hinds letting off some steam. Sanders says he \u201cwas trying to be funny\u201d. Dailor admits that just the way he was. When he got the call that Hinds had died, he was \u201cdevastated\u201d \u2013 and whatever was said or done in the heat of the moment was the last thing on his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrent said a lot of things that he probably didn\u2019t mean,\u201d he says. \u201cHe liked to talk some shit and stir the pot and get people\u2019s blood boiling, I guess. I feel like he felt he could control a situation if he threw a wrench.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 25 years together, Hinds and the rest of the band were on different planes. Hinds still out there partying hard when the rest of them had called time on it long ago. Guitarist Bill Kelliher famously had a health emergency in late 2008 when was hospitalised in London with alcohol-related pancreatitis. The band completed their tour as a trio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf any of us did half the stuff that Brent pulled off, we\u2019d all have been dead years ago,\u201d says Dailor.<\/p>\n

As Hinds told MusicRadar in 2009<\/a>, when the band\u2019s magnum opus, Crack The Skye, was released, \u201cIf it ain\u2019t about havin\u2019 good times, I\u2019m not interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hinds had just recovered from injury before starting work on the record. After a typically wild night out in Las Vegas he was assaulted, knocked unconscious and the risk of permanent brain damage was real.<\/p>\n

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Loud electric guitars<\/a> were the last thing he wanted to hear after that, and so Hinds retreated to the comfort of his acoustic guitar<\/a>, smoking weed, listening to King Crimson and letting his mind run free.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mind\u2019s the most cosmic place I could ever visit,\u201d said Hinds. \u201cAll I have to do is zone out and play the guitar, and before you know it, I’ve visited places unheard of. I put all of that into Mastodon\u2019s music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dailor says that checks out. There was no disputing his talent. Hinds wore his heart on his sleeve, was quick-tempered, intense and funny, and all of that was evident right there in his playing style. \u201cHe was the real deal, you know? His emotions were right there all the time and he could easily access them through his instrument,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Mastodon\u2019s latest album, Marrow Deep, marks the debut of Nick Johnstone, who replaces Hinds on lead guitar. It was trailed by a lead single paying tribute to Hinds, Your Ghost Again. And its title, Marrow Deep, speaks to Dailor\u2019s grief at the loss of Hinds and the death of his mother. \u201cThose relationships are in the marrow, it\u2019s as deep as you can get,\u201d he told Kerrang!<\/a><\/p>\n

Grief is the kind of thing that stays with you. It\u2019s something you carry. But as Dailor notes in his Guardian interview it also serves as a reminder that you\u2019ve got some living to do, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing Brent in his casket was so difficult to wrap our heads around, and it makes you want to feel fucking alive,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re still here, so we better get to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They don\u2019t make guitar players like the late Brent Hinds anymore. But maybe they never did. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-567917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}