Brett Hinds, the previous lead guitarist and co-vocalist of Mastodon, died in a bike crash in Atlanta Wednesday evening (August 21), native information retailers report. Hinds was using a Harley Davidson when one other car did not yield, inflicting a collision, in line with Atlanta Information First. Hinds was 51 years outdated.
William Brent Hinds was born in Alabama however moved to Atlanta within the mid Nineteen 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. They launched a string of extremely regarded steel albums, together with the 2004 Moby Dick idea LP Leviathan and Grammy-nominated follow-up Blood Mountain, earlier than Hinds’ unceremonious departure, introduced this 12 months.
