Mastodon have apologized on behalf of member Brent Hinds after he made comments about steel band Disturbed that included an offensive slur.
Hinds was a visitor on Jamey Jasta’s podcast The Jasta Present earlier this week, the place he talked about Mastodon opening for Disturbed at Mayhem Competition in 2008.
When requested if Hinds had any bucket record excursions left, he responded: “No, I did lots of excursions I didn’t need to do although, like Disturbed and all that Mayhem silly bullshit. G** a** shit. You gotta fuckin’ open up for Disturbed. You gotta play to those who like Disturbed.”
He adopted up by saying that the competition crowd has “only a fuckin’ bunch of drunk People”, and Disturbed followers are “receptive to something, I think about.” He added that the band’s first tour for steel label Relapse – the place they performed with loss of life steel band Dying Fetus – was “horrible”.
Consequence has since reported that music author Morgan Y Evans then commented on a current Instagram submit by Mastodon, through which drummer Brann Dailor is seen dressed as Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford for Halloween. They expressed that “it was tremendous crappy at the moment to see you all around the press w a member utilizing homophobic language to explain a tour with @disturbed”.
The band responded to their remark with an announcement. “This actually bums me out,” it reads. “I’m very sorry we damage your emotions or anybody else’s, that’s by no means our intention. We would like our LGBTQ followers to really feel protected listening to our music and coming to see us dwell.”
The band clarified that they “don’t have any ailing will in direction of Disturbed” and that the band “have been at all times tremendous cool to us on the Mayhem tour.” Additionally they added that the “interviewer may need caught Brent on a foul day.”
Mastodon not too long ago launched their eighth studio album ‘Hushed and Grim’ by way of Reprise Information. In an interview with NME, Dailor talked about the band’s collaborative course of.
“We don’t speak about our emotions with one another, we simply put them within the lyrics,” he admitted. “We’re blokes so we’re not sitting in a room telling one another how we really feel, however writing songs collectively is fairly shut.”