(photo © Geof O’Keefe)
Geof reflects: It’s hard to fathom that it was fourteen years ago today – August 8, 2002 – that our beloved Randy Palmer passed away after a week in the hospital, following the auto accident he was involved in on July 31st, 2002. He didn’t live to see the Child of Darkness album released. He didn’t live to see the Symphony of Shadows album we’d just begun recording a few months prior, finally finished and released in 2012. And he didn’t live to participate in the first (and to date only) BEDEMON live performance at Psycho California, May 15, 2015.
To this day, we still meet people and get messages from fans who tell us how much they love BEDEMON. Randy may no longer be with us in the literal physical sense but his music will live on forever. To our brother of doom, you are loved and missed by more people worldwide than you ever could have imagined.
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bedemon for life and beyond.
Best band in the whole universe along with Pentagram, Sabbath ,Night Sun ,Buffalo and Stone Axe (Snakebite/Slave of Fear). Randy will always be the fucking man , an undying legend ,specially to true doomheads… wish he could’ve lived longer so we could’ve had a better follow up to Child of Darkness along with many other great Bedemon albums with goood ole Bobby on vocals, but no matter what , Bedemon lives on. RIP Doom bro
Best band in the whole universe along with Pentagram, Sabbath ,Night Sun ,Buffalo, Sir Lord Baltimore, Deep Purple, Stone Axe (Snakebite/Slave of Fear), Leaf Hound and Truth and Janey. Randy will always be the fucking man , an undying legend ,specially to true doomheads… wish he could’ve lived longer so we could’ve had a better follow up to Child of Darkness along with many other great Bedemon albums with goood ole Bobby on vocals, but no matter what , Bedemon lives on. RIP Doom bro
Best band in the whole universe along with Pentagram, Sabbath ,Night Sun ,Buffalo, Sir Lord Baltimore, Deep Purple, Stone Axe (Snakebite/Slave of Fear), Leaf Hound, Primevil ( Smokin’ Bats at Campton’s) and Truth and Janey. Randy will always be the fucking man , an undying legend ,specially to true doomheads… wish he could’ve lived longer so we could’ve had a better follow up to Child of Darkness along with many other great Bedemon albums with goood ole Bobby on vocals, but no matter what , Bedemon lives on. RIP Doom bro
Miss you Randy. Love your music. 🎶