Hinds Sight
Band had parted ways with Hinds months before his 2025 death
Nearly a year ago, former Mastodon singer-guitarist Brent Hinds died in a motorcycle accident. At the time, only a few months had passed since Mastodon had announced that Hinds had parted ways with the group, with him later saying the band had fired him. Now they’ve released a video, The Mastodon in the Room, featuring the three other founding members reflecting on good times and a lot of bad times with Hinds as they explain what happened.
As a public figure, Hinds never hid his struggles. Throughout the 36-minute video, bassist-vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist Bill Kelliher, and drummer Brann Dailor, describe Hinds as a complicated individual who battled addictions and mental health problems. Although the trio, seated in a movie theater, chuckle at seeing footage of their early days and remember good times with Hinds, the majority of the clip shows the three of them making sense of what seems like a strained relationship. They described incidents of Hinds acting unreasonably, but they knew they’d have “a redemption show” afterwards that would be great. “It’s almost like what you hear with a battered housewife,” Dailor says. “The remorseful boyfriend or husband comes back with flowers. … He bought us diamond rings.” Eventually things became so tenuous they comment that they have a hard time remembering he could be happy.
