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Brent Hinds
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Brent Hinds

American guitarist and singer (1974–2025)

William Brent Hinds was an American musician, best known as the former lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the Atlanta heavy metal band Mastodon. Hinds was also lead guitarist/singer for the surfabilly band Fiend Without a Face, and was at various times involved in other projects including rock bands The Blood Vessels, West End Motel, Four Hour Fogger, The Last of the Blue Eyed Devils, Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, and Legend of the Seagullmen.

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Gef, also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism. Continue reading
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