Months have gone by since they parted ways, but tensions haven’t thawed between former guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds and his former Mastodon bandmates.
Not even in the slightest (in Hinds’s case). In March, the metal band made an unexpected announcement that they would be parting ways with Hinds after 25 years. Details as to what led up to the split have been scarce, but guitarist Bill Kelliher gave a brief statement to Guitar World as to what happened from his perspective. “Like a marriage, sometimes people grow apart, and they get interested in other things,” Kelliher stated. “We wish nothing but the best for Brent in chasing his dreams.”
Since then, Mastodon has been playing with guitarist Nick Johnston. As time has gone on, Hinds’s anger towards his former bandmates has seemed to be growing. A comment Hinds left on the Mastodon subreddit has grabbed a lot of the fandom’s attention. The guitarist responded in a long comment in response to a 2012 live video of his performance of a guitar solo for the song “Crack The Skye. “
“My Guitar sounds great, but Troy [Sanders] and prawn [a name for drummer [Brann Dailor] sound absolutely horrible,” Hinds wrote. “..they are way out of key ..embarrassing and they kicked me out of the band for embarrassing them for being who I am ..but what about who they are ?” He went on to write, “I’ve never seen anyone in my life look in the mirror more than Troy Sanders. He thinks he’s God’s gift to anything. I’ve never met three people that were so full of themselves. It’s disgusting.”
These sentiments echo what Hinds said on Instagram in June, when he stated, “I [won’t] miss being in a s— band with horrible humans.”
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