Complex sentence: The band gets its name from 17th century Puritan preacher and author Cotton Mather, a minister of Boston's North Church, who was famous for, among other things, supporting the executions of so-called "witches" at the Salem witch trials.
Split into simpler sentences: The band gets its name from 17th century Puritan preacher and author Cotton Mather. A minister of Boston's North Church, who was famous for, among other things, supporting the executions of so-called "witches" at the Salem witch trials.