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.
Initially a side project for Barnes, it became a full-time band in early 1995 after his departure from Cannibal Corpse.
On May 16, 2007, he was arrested and imprisoned after his fifth DUI offense, incarcerated at the Gainesville Correctional Institution and released on January 19, 2008.
One year after being released, he was arrested again, in Citrus County Florida on December 18, 2019, due to felony petit theft for the fourth time and misdemeanor resisting a merchant.
[12] At 52 years old, having a sequence of legal troubles throughout his life, on October 6, 2020, West was arrested once more, in Sumter County, Florida, facing a series of concurrent sentences, which included probation violation and heroin and methamphetamine possession.