'I hate heavy metal,' says Mastodon frontman

Brent Hinds says he only started playing heavy music because he thought it was rebellious, and he’s always trying to get Mastodon to drop the metalWhile it is traditional for bands closely associated with a genre to insist “there’s always been a dance element to our music” or to protest that they are too versatile to be pigeonholed, it’s less common for them to be as forthright as Brent Hinds of metal heroes Mastodon. “I fucking hate heavy metal and I don’t want to be in a heavy me