Mastodon’s Brent Hinds: ‘I f***ing hate heavy metal music’
He launches an astonishing tirade
Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds has launched an astonishing tirade against heavy metal music.
In an explosive interview with Guitar Player magazine, the 41-year-old axeman said he’s never liked metal music and continues to loathe it to this day despite the success of his phenomenal band.
"I never really liked heavy metal in the first place," he confessed. "I came from Alabama playing country music, surf rock, rockabilly, and stuff like that.
“I just went through a phase in my 20s where I thought it was rebellious to play heavy metal. And then I met Brann (Dailor) and Bill (Kelliher) and they were really, really, really into heavy metal.
“Ever since then, I've been trying to get Mastodon to not be such a heavy metal band, because I fucking hate heavy metal, and I don't want to be in a heavy metal band."
Clearly not in the best of moods, Brent went on to express his hatred of doing interviews.
"It would be nice if magazines and all interviews would just go fall off the face of the earth along with all the cigarette smoke and all the other f***ing things I hate in life,” he said.
“I don't like doing interviews, I don't read interviews, I don't need to know how people go about doing things. It frustrates me to do interviews, because I have to talk about things I've talked about over and over and over and over again.
“So, no, there's nothing that we can talk about that involved Mastodon that I'll get excited about. After 15 years of doing this every f***ing day of my life, the last thing I want to do is talk about doing it."
Mastodon released their last album ‘Once More 'Round the Sun’ exactly a year ago today.