{"id":4643,"date":"2025-08-21T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mastodon-co-founder-brent-hinds-dies-in-motorycle-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:12:05","slug":"mastodon-co-founder-brent-hinds-dies-in-motorycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mastodon-co-founder-brent-hinds-dies-in-motorycle-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Co-Founder Brent Hinds Dies In Motorycle Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1787690788-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mastodon co-founder\/guitarist Brent Hinds died last night (Aug. 20) after his motorcycle was hit by a car in Atlanta. The musician, who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/03\/mastodon-first-show-without-brent-hinds\/\"> left the band<\/a> under tumulttous circumstances in March, was 51.<\/p>\n<p>Hinds was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/08\/21\/former-guitarist-co-founder-heavy-metal-band-mastodon-dies-atlanta-motorcycle-crash\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> struck by a BMV SUV that failed to yield at an intersection. Local police are investigating the accident.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/03\/mastodon-first-show-without-brent-hinds\/\">Mastodon Play First Show After Split With Co-Founder Brent Hinds<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2024\/10\/tool-hosting-destination-festival-in-dominican-republic\/\">Tool Hosting Destination Festival In Dominican Republic<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2022\/11\/50-best-songs-of-2002\/\">The 50 Best Songs of 2002<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In announcing Hinds\u2019 exit from the band he co-founded in Atlanta in 2000, Mastodon said the move was mutual and they wished \u201chim nothing but success and happiness in his future endeavors.\u201d The group quickly replaced him with guitarist Ben Eller, who has since been replaced by Nick Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Hinds disputed his former band members\u2019 version of events, at one point calling them \u201chorrible humans\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastodon co-founder\/guitarist Brent Hinds died last night (Aug. 20) after his motorcycle was hit by a car in Atlanta. The musician, who left the band under tumulttous circumstances in March,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3401,2474,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brent-hinds","category-mastodon","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}