{"id":72596,"date":"2026-09-11T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/brent-hinds-estate-sues-mastodon-over-late-guitarists-share-of-band\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:38:28","slug":"brent-hinds-estate-sues-mastodon-over-late-guitarists-share-of-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/brent-hinds-estate-sues-mastodon-over-late-guitarists-share-of-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Hinds’ Estate Sues Mastodon Over Late Guitarist’s Share of Band"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tThe estate of the late former Mastodon<\/a> member Brent Hinds<\/a> has filed a lawsuit against the Atlanta metal band, claiming the guitarist is still owed money for his share in the group.<\/p>\n

\n\tHinds died in a motorcycle crash<\/a> in August 2025, just five months after Mastodon announced<\/a> that the band and their co-founding guitarist had \u201cmutually decided to part ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the lawsuit filed in Fulton County Court on September 3, Hinds\u2019 estate says that Hinds and the band hadn\u2019t reached an agreement to relinquish his ownership share in Mastodon \u2014 including their music and merchandising \u2014 at the time of his death; after he died, the estate was given an $80,000 check to buy out the share, which the estate has not yet cashed, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite Hinds\u2019 Mastodon exit in March 2025, the band continued to use Hinds\u2019 photo in promotional materials, including \u2014 as the lawsuit claims \u2014 a face that resembles Hinds on the cover of the band\u2019s just-released new album Marrow Deep<\/a><\/em>, Mastodon\u2019s first album without Hinds; the band started recording the LP shortly after Hinds\u2019 death.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Marrow Deep<\/em> cover features three large figures, with the rightmost bat-faced one wearing a cloak shrouding skulls and human faces. One of those faces, the estate says, resembles Hinds, who did not musically contribute to the album.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNevertheless, Defendants selected and placed a recognizable image of Brent on the album cover of Marrow Deep<\/em> and disseminated that cover to advertise, market, distribute, and sell physical albums, digital downloads and streams, merchandise, and related goods or services,\u201d the lawsuit said. (Lawyers for Hinds\u2019 estate and reps for Mastodon did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe estate also claimed that, at the time of Hinds parting ways with Mastodon, the band said they wouldn\u2019t disclose the details of the guitarist\u2019s exit. However, after his death and while promoting Marrow Deep<\/em>, Mastodon members talked openly about Hinds\u2019 departure<\/a>, citing his issues with substance abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit criticizes Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, and Troy Sanders \u2014 the three remaining founding members of Mastodon, all of whom are named in the lawsuit \u2014 for discussing \u201cdetails about [Hinds\u2019] private life that they learned in confidence \u2014 details he chose to keep private while he was alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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