Way back 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 things, but of course this is the Internet and nothing ever really dies.
For those unfamiliar, the alleged altercation went down right after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Hinds got into a fight with Odadjian’s guest Rev. William Burk, at which point Odadjian supposedly knocked Hinds out. A police report detailed that the fight was between the three aforementioned parties, and that Hinds was in a coma for a few weeks afterward.
Now in a new interview with Metal Hammer, Odadjian has once again downplayed his involvement in the incident.
“I never knocked out Brent Hinds. That’s something that Brent was told by I-don’t-know-who. What happened was, we were in Las Vegas, outside Mandalay Bay after the MTV Music Awards, and I was with my friend, (rapper) Reverend William Burk. Brent Hinds comes out of a taxi and he’s like, ‘Bro, I love you!’ He was inebriated and swinging his shirt. He kept coming up to hug me. He was very in-my-face.”
Odadjian said he eventually distanced himself from the situation, and when he turned around, saw Hinds swinging at Burke. He then says Hinds “fell and hit his head and got knocked out.”
Odadjian also maintained his innocence in the situation, saying: “I said, ‘Check the fucking cameras (at the front of Mandalay Bay)! I did nothing!” Once they did, the police came and let me go. I was there for, like, four hours.”
So now the real question – what’re the chances we get a Hinds guest spot on a Seven Hours After Violet single?
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