Manner again in 2007, System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian allegedly knocked out then-Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds. Odadjian and Mastodon have since gotten over issues, however in fact that is the Web and nothing ever actually dies.
For these unfamiliar, the alleged altercation went down proper after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Hinds acquired right into a battle with Odadjian‘s visitor Rev. William Burk, at which level Odadjian supposedly knocked Hinds out. A police report detailed that the battle was between the three aforementioned events, and that Hinds was in a coma for a number of weeks afterward.
Now in a brand new interview with Metallic Hammer, Odadjian has as soon as once more downplayed his involvement within the incident.
“I by no means knocked out Brent Hinds. That’s one thing that Brent was informed by I-don’t-know-who. What occurred was, we had been in Las Vegas, exterior Mandalay Bay after the MTV Music Awards, and I used to be with my pal, [rapper] Reverend William Burk. Brent Hinds comes out of a taxi and he’s like, ‘Bro, I like you!’ He was inebriated and swinging his shirt. He saved coming as much as hug me. He was very in-my-face.”
Odadjian mentioned he finally distanced himself from the state of affairs, and when he circled, noticed Hinds swinging at Burke. He then says Hinds “fell and hit his head and acquired knocked out.”
Odadjian additionally maintained his innocence within the state of affairs, saying: “I mentioned, ‘Examine the fucking cameras [at the front of Mandalay Bay]! I did nothing!” As soon as they did, the police got here and let me go. I used to be there for, like, 4 hours.”
So now the true query – what’re the probabilities we get a Hinds visitor spot on a Seven Hours After Violet single?
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