“We lost somebody very special to us yesterday,” drummer Brann Dailor said of Hinds, who died in a motorcycle accident on Wednesday at the age of 51.

Brent Hinds, the former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta, the band and authorities said.

According to the report, officers arrived on the scene to find a male Harley Davidson rider — presumably Hinds — unresponsive after someone driving a BMW SUV “failed to yield” and collided with the mo...