Watch Mastodon pay tribute to Brent Hinds on stage in Alaska

Mastodon gave a heartfelt tribute to former, co-founding guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds on stage at their Alaska State Fair show on Friday night (8/22), following Brent’s sudden, tragic death on Wednesday from a motorcycle accident. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor said (transcribed by Blabbermouth):

We lost somebody very special to us yesterday. Brent Hinds, 25 years with us as our guitar player, one of the most creative, beautiful people that we’ve ever come across in this world, tragically left us. Very, very unfortunate. We loved him so, so, so very much. And we had the ups and downs of a 25-year relationship. You know what I mean? It’s not always perfect, it’s not always amazing, but we were brothers to the end. And we really loved each other and we made a lot, a lot of very beautiful music together. And I think that that’s gonna stand the test of time, evidenced by you people here tonight.
“So we will continue to play [Hinds]’s beautiful, beautiful music that he helped us make, that we formed this band together and traveled the world together, slept in a van together, laid our heads down on beds of fucking kitty litter, got way too drunk to remember anything the next day about a thousand, million times over and over again with the love that we shared and the beauty, all the audiences that we played, for all the stages we stepped on.

I don’t know. We’re just at a loss for words. We’re absolutely devastated and crushed to lose him and to be able to never have him back again. But you guys made it okay for us to come on stage and do this tonight. So that was for fucking [Hinds], okay?! Thank you guys so much.

Mastodon also put out a statement about Brent’s death on Wednesday. Brent’s tragic accident occurred just about six months after Brent parted ways with Mastodon after 25 years.

Watch Brann give his tribute: