Allen Blickle, the founding drummer of the Georgia heavy steel band Baroness, has died. His surviving ex-bandmates shared the information on Instagram in the present day, although a reason behind dying was not revealed.
The band’s submit reads:
It breaks my coronary heart to need to share the information that my expensive good friend, inventive associate and former bandmate Allen Blickle handed away just a few days in the past. I’m nonetheless in shock that he’s gone. We ask for understanding as his household and this band course of his passing and grieve his loss. Allen, I really like you and miss you. I treasure each second we shared.
Baroness fashioned in 2003 with Blickle, vocalist/guitarist John Baizley, guitarist Tim Free, and bassist Summer time Welch. They recorded their self-released first demo that yr with Pavement drummer Steve West. Over the following couple of years, Baroness would launch two EPs and a cut up LP with fellow Savannahian band Unpersons, garnering sufficient consideration to ink a cope with Relapse in 2007. Baroness’ debut full-length Purple Album was launched that September.
Blickle carried out on Baroness’ following two albums Blue File (2009) and Yellow & Inexperienced (2012), each of which have been produced by John Congleton. Baroness’ profession trajectory got here to a pause in summer time of 2012, nonetheless, when the band’s tour bus fell about 30 ft from a viaduct close to Tub, England. No one was killed, however Blickle suffered fractured vertebrae whereas Baizley sustained a damaged arm and leg. Blickle would depart Baroness quickly after, however he went on to carry out in different bands akin to Romantic Dividends, A Place To Bury Strangers, and Alpaca.
Revisit a few of Blickle’s songs with Baroness beneath.
