Allen Blickle Quits Baroness Following Bus Crash  allen blickle
Drummer Allen Blickle and bassist Matt Maggioni have resigned
from Georgia-based alternative metal band Baroness. While
details are scarce, the band’s website alluded to the horrific
bus accident that hospitalized all four band members last August
while on tour in the UK in which Blickle and Maggioni suffered
fractured vertebrae.  “Nothing can truly prepare you for a brush
with death. The event is a unique one, singular to the
observer,” singer-guitarist John Baizley wrote. “For some of us,
the accident necessitated a change that would prevent them from
performing music or touring.”