Allen West (musician)

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Allen West (born October 17, 1967, Brandon, Florida, United States) is an American death metal guitarist, who has been a member of Massacre, Obituary, Six Feet Under,^[1] Lowbrow, Corpse Rot, and Southwicked.^[2] He is considered to be a pioneering figure of the death metal genre in the 1980s.^[3]