Vancouver (With files from Wikipedia, Lynn-Marie Wall) – Another piece of BC Punk Rock history has gone to the great gig in the sky.
Randall Desmond Archibald better known as Randy Rampage, was a founding member, bass player and occasional vocalist of the Canadian hardcore band D.O.A., and was the lead singer of the thrash metal band Annihilator in 1988–1989 and again from 1998 to 2000.
Rampage was also a longshoreman and author of the book “I Survived DOA”.
The cause of death has been reported as a heart attack.
DOA leader Joe Keithley (aka Joey Shithead) took to Twitter:
On Keithly’s Facebook page, tribute are pouring in.
Randy spent substantial time being filmed for the documentary film Bloodied But UnBowed, a historical look at the evolution of punk rock on the West coast of North America during the 1978-1983 time frame. His appearance in this film along with Art Bergmann, Jello Biafra, Joe Keithley, Duff McKagan, Henry Rollins, Ron Reyes (ex-Black Flag), Penelope Houston, Ginger Coyote, Buck Cherry and many others.
