https://realrocklab.com/people/marcus-king/Recent content in Marcus King on Real Rock LabHugoen-usSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:02:43 +0000https://realrocklab.com/brent-hinds-final-recorded-solos-why-theyre/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:02:43 +0000https://realrocklab.com/brent-hinds-final-recorded-solos-why-theyre/<p><em>Mastodon&rsquo;s grief album has none of the man it grieves. One of the last solos Brent Hinds ever cut sat uncredited on a blues record for six months. The two stories belong together.</em></p> <h2 id="two-records-one-absence">Two records, one absence</h2> <p><a href="https://realrocklab.com/bands/mastodon/">Mastodon</a> put out <em>Marrow Deep</em> on 28 August 2026. Twelve tracks, 65 minutes, released through Loma Vista, and the first Mastodon album since <em>Remission</em> without <a href="https://realrocklab.com/people/brent-hinds/">Brent Hinds</a> on it. Hinds left the band in March 2025, in a split first described as mutual and later disputed by Hinds himself, who said he had been kicked out for &ldquo;embarrassing them&rdquo; (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Hinds">Wikipedia</a>). He died on 20 August 2025 in a motorcycle crash in Atlanta. He was 51.</p>