Brent Hinds, the former lead guitarist and co-vocalist of Mastodon , died in a motorcycle crash in Atlanta Wednesday night (August 21), local news outlets report . Hinds was riding a Harley Davidson when an SUV failed to yield at a turning, causing a fatal collision, according to Atlanta News First and an Atlanta police memo . Hinds was 51 years old.

William Brent Hinds was born in Alabama but moved to Atlanta in the mid 1990s, where he met future Mastodon bandmate Troy Sanders and joined his band Four Hour Fogger. After that group’s dissolution, the duo sought to form another, eventually picking up drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher to form Mastodon at the dawn of the 2000s.

Their 2002 debut album, Remission , on which Hinds and Sanders traded lead vocals over vi

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