Brent Hinds of Mastodon Hates Heavy Metal & Interviews

Brent Hinds of Mastodon seems to not like one giant aspect of his job – the type of music his band has become known for.

“I never really liked heavy metal in the first place,” explained Hinds in a new interview with Guitar Player. “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, Mastodon drummer] and Bill [Kelliher], and they were really, really, really into heavy metal. And 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.”

From there, Hinds went on to grieve about another aspect of life as a musician: doing interviews. Without mincing words, the Mastodon main-man said that he would love all interviews “would just go fall off the face of the earth” and that “there’s nothing that we can talk about that involved Mastodon that I’ll get excited about.”

Yikes. Here’s Hinds’ full anti-interview diatribe:

“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 fucking things I hate in life. 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 fucking day of my life, the last thing I want to do is talk about doing it.