NEED TO KNOW
- Allen Blickle, the unique drummer of the Grammy-nominated Baroness, has died
- The musician was 42, and a reason for loss of life is unknown
- Blickle was a part of the band from 2003 till 2013 following a near-fatal bus crash in 2012
Allen Blickle, the unique drummer of Baroness, has died. He was 42.
The Savannah, Ga.-founded heavy steel band introduced his loss of life in an Instagram submit on Monday, Sept. 8. “It breaks my coronary heart to should share the information that my expensive good friend, inventive accomplice and former bandmate Allen Blickle handed away just a few days in the past,” the assertion started.
“I am 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 like you and miss you. I treasure each second we shared.”
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Kylesa musician Laura Pleasants additionally posted a tribute to the drummer on Instagram on Sunday, Sept. 7. “I used to be so heartbroken when speaking w Joe and Summer season the opposite day; discovering out how the previous month was. I’m simply gutted, dude. All of us thought you had this factor beat,” she wrote partly.
“Gone too quickly my good friend. I am glad you might be at peace and not in ache.”
A reason for loss of life was not revealed.
Blickle, alongside frontman John Baizley, bassist Summer season Welch and guitarist Tim Unfastened, shaped Baroness in 2003. He appeared on their albums 2007’s Pink Album, 2009’s Blue Report and the 2012 double-LP Yellow & Inexperienced. The band was nominated for Finest Steel Efficiency on the 2017 Grammy Awards for “Shock Me.”
Baroness was concerned in a bus crash within the UK 2012 when their tour bus plummeted off a viaduct in Tub, England, throughout a heavy downpour of rain.
Blickle was hospitalized for 2 weeks with fractured vertebrae, per Rolling Stone. The band needed to cancel the rest of their tour because of this. Months later, he departed from the band in early 2013.
Talking with The Fader in 2013, Blickle spoke about the potential of returning to the steel style. “If the proper alternative got here to me, I might be fully keen,” he stated on the time.
“I need to begin enjoying extra regularly, and I believe that can take me touring once more. If it’s in a steel band or not, I at all times play heavy and hit the s— out of the drums.”
He additionally mirrored on the nearly-fatal bus crash, saying it was extra to him that only a “near-death expertise.”
“It made me rethink loads in my life and has been essentially the most tough time I’ve been by to this point. It was a horrible reminiscence, however I’m making an attempt to not let it outline me or cease me from doing what I like. Let it’s and hold transferring.”
Different bands he carried out with post-Baroness included Romantic Dividends, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Alpaca.
Per Blickle’s Instagram account, he was most lately a composer and sound designer. He was concerned as a composer for the movie Midway to Amarillo, the tv sequence We Are the Champions, and the tv miniseries The Comedy Retailer amongst different initiatives.
