Current/Former Members of Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta, Jane’s Addiction Form Project

by | Jun 14, 2011

Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is at work on a currently untitled project with The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery, and former The Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen.

“We tried to get together and do an album, but there’s been no time,” Hinds told Noisecreep. “We want to record crazy stuff and Ben is working on that, but it’s been hard to get together.”

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