Mastodon shocked the guitar world last week when the progressive metal heavyweights announced that founding guitarist Brent Hinds had left the band. Now the story has taken a fresh turn: the band ...

Mastodon's Brent Hinds in November 2023 (photo: Medios y Media / Getty Images). Two days after Mastodon shocked fans with the announcement that they’d parted ways with co-founding vocalist/guitarist ...

Brent Hinds, former lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Mastodon, died Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Atlanta, according to reports by Variety, Billboard and other media outlets. Hinds, 51, ...