Mastodon has released a video about the death of their former guitarist, Brent Hinds. Hinds, a founding member, left the band in March 2025 and died in a motorcycle crash five months later.
The video, called “The Mastodon in the room,” shows the remaining founders — Brann Dailor, Troy Sanders and Bill Kelliher — sitting in a theater watching old footage of Hinds and the band. Near the end, they talk about why they parted ways with him.
“It isn’t easy to talk about Brent, he was our family, someone we all loved wholeheartedly,” the band writes in the video’s description. “He was a wild man, our wild man, and that came with some challenges. Both things are true and we aren’t interested in chasing one truth over the other.”
They add, “Losing him has meant sitting with a type of grief we never expected. No more hugs, no more high fives, no more disagreements, no more making up. That part has been hard, it’s real. We put this conversation out there so you can hear it directly from us, you all deserve that.”
You can watch “The Mastodon in the room” on YouTube. Mastodon has kept going with new guitarist Nick Johnston. In June they released a song dedicated to Hinds called “Your Ghost Again.” (The video includes uncensored profanity.)
