Overview

• Frontman John Baizley announced Blickle’s passing and asked for understanding as the family and band grieve.
• No cause of death has been disclosed, and reporting is limited to official statements and tributes.
• Early word of his death circulated via social media, including an Instagram tribute from Kylesa’s Laura Pleasants.
• Blickle co-founded Baroness in 2003 and performed on the band’s first three albums: Red Album, Blue Record and Yellow & Green.
• He was injured in the band’s 2012 U.K. bus crash and left in 2013, later working with Romantic Dividends, Alpaca and A Place to Bury Strangers, and in film and TV sound design.