They don’t make guitar players like the late Brent Hinds anymore. He was the player who brought countrified bluegrass virtuosity to metal guitar, and a little danger to Mastodon. Drummer Brann Dailor turning up in public with a black eye only added to the speculation. “Brent texted me when that was all stirred up, and he was like, ‘Dude, I can’t believe people think I punched you in the face!’” “If any of us did half the stuff that Brent pulled off, we’d all have been dead years ago,” says Dailor.