Brent Hinds, the previous lead guitarist and co-vocalist of Mastodon, died in a bike crash in Atlanta Wednesday night time (August 21), native information retailers report. Hinds was using a Harley Davidson when an SUV didn’t yield at a turning, inflicting a deadly collision, based on Atlanta Information First and an Atlanta police memo. Hinds was 51 years outdated.
William Brent Hinds was born in Alabama however moved to Atlanta within the mid Nineties, the place he met future Mastodon bandmate Troy Sanders and joined his band 4 Hour Fogger. After that group’s dissolution, the duo sought to type one other, ultimately choosing up drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Invoice Kelliher to type Mastodon on the daybreak of the 2000s.
Their 2002 debut album, Remission, on which Hinds and Sanders traded lead vocals over virtuosic, hardcore-infused metallic, prompted a sensation in heavy music circles. However it was the successor, the Moby Dick idea LP Leviathan, that elevated them to the higher echelons of metallic in 2004, amongst each followers and critics. The studio follow-up, 2007’s Blood Mountain, earned them a Grammy nomination for Greatest Steel Efficiency. The band’s ingenious, progressive tendencies got here to the fore on subsequent LPs, beginning with 2009’s Crack the Skye—which launched Dailor to the band’s suite of lead vocalists—and 2011’s The Hunter, which was devoted to Hinds’ late brother.
Hinds’ unceremonious departure from the band was revealed this 12 months. Although the band’s personal announcement was cordial, Hinds later mentioned he was “kicked out” and called his former bandmates “horrible people” in Instagram feedback. He continued to carry out dwell round Atlanta in bands akin to Fiend With out a Face, West Finish Motel, and Soiled B & the Boys.
