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He's not suffering from any head injury in this particular pic. He's just wasted.

Last year’s VMA’s left Mastodon guitarist, Brent Hinds, with some severe head trauma, that lasted for up to eight months, after he got in a drunken haze fight and got his head cracked wide open.

Some of us might think, there’s nothing good that could come from some permanent head trauma, but apparently Brent’s new found state of mind (“I was dizzy for eight months,” he says) helped him elaborate some of Mastodon’s best work, at least according to the band.

“During those months, I just sat with my...