Nine months after the death of former guitarist and co-founder Brent Hinds, Mastodon has shared the first music dedicated to his memory while also unveiling an extensive North American tour alongside Deafheaven and Alcest. Hinds died last September at age 51 following a motorcycle accident in Atlanta. The guitarist exited Mastodon rancorously earlier in 2025 after more than two decades with the band.
“Your Ghost Again” arrives alongside a video assembled from archival footage spanning his years in the group. According to the band, the track serves as both a remembrance and a celebration of Hinds’ enduring impact on Mastodon’s history.
“‘Your Ghost Again’ is about being in those familiar places you used to be with people all the time, which for us was in the studio,” drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor says. “I just kept seeing [Brent] out of the corner of my eye, where he would normally be with his guitar. It’s about that. Your mind plays tricks on you, especially so soon after someone dies and you’re in the places where they always were. You just see them.”
“We wanted to pick a song that sounds like Mastodon, and that has all the things in there, because it’s the first impression of what people are gonna hear,” guitarist/vocalist Bill Kelliher offers. “It speaks about things that have just happened and people passing, I could go deep but I don’t want to because a lot of that shit’s personal.”
“The bridge lyrics are two lines of pure gratitude towards Brent,” bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders reveals. “It’s ‘all the gifts from you, now you can take them back where you must go,’ meaning you came into my life, you exposed me to things that blew my mind, together we conquered thousands of stages around the world [and] had magical moments that we can never repeat again, but all the beauty that you brought it still remains. Always will.”
Mastodon has also announced a fall North American trek beginning Oct. 17 in Las Vegas and running through Oct. 24 at the Sick New Word festival in Texas. Support will come from Deafheaven and Alcest throughout the run, and King Woman on select dates.
Here are Mastodon’s fall tour dates:
Sept. 16: Orlando (Hard Rock Live Orlando)
Sept. 18: Asheville (Asheville Yards)
Sept. 19: Pittsburgh (Stage AE)
Sept. 20: Louisville (Louder Than Life 2026)
Sept. 22: Philadelphia (Franklin Music Hall)
Sept. 23: Boston (Citizens House of Blues Boston)
Sept. 24: Brooklyn (Brooklyn Paramount)
Sept. 25: Washington, D.C. (The Anthem)
Sept. 27: Montréal (MTELUS)
Sept. 28: Toronto (REBEL)
Sept. 29: Buffalo (Buffalo RiverWorks)
Oct. 1: Detroit (The Fillmore Detroit)
Oct. 2: Chicago (The Riviera Theater)
Oct. 3: Minneapolis (Palace Theatre)
Oct. 6: Salt Lake City (The Complex)
Oct. 7: Boise (Revolution Center)
Oct. 9: Oakland (Fox Theater)
Oct. 10: Los Angeles (Hollywood Palladium)
Oct. 11: San Diego (The Sound)
Oct. 14: Denver (Fillmore Plaza)
Oct. 16: West Des Moines (Val Air Ballroom)
Oct. 17: St. Louis (The Pageant)
Oct. 18: Memphis (Satellite Music Hall)
Oct. 20: Cleveland (Agora Theater & Ballroom)
Oct. 21: Greensboro (Piedmont Hall)
Oct. 22: Atlanta (The Eastern)
Oct. 24: Fort Worth (Sick New World Texas 2026)
