DETHBED

"Every great band starts with somebody dumb enough to hand you a microphone. That somebody was Joe Tell, known back then and still today in the scene as Cyco Joe, who as a teenager pulled a young Angst on stage during his cover band's practice sessions and talked him into singing for the first time."

The story of Dethbed is inseparable from the story of Rick Andolina — known to everyone as "Ricky Baby," a nickname coined by Rodney Dangerfield himself. Angst and Rick first crossed paths in 1984 in Buffalo, New York, on a college intramural football team. What started as a friendship on the field became a musical partnership that would define both of their lives.

That Halloween, they played their first garage show with Tirant Sin — alongside Bob Rusay and a young drummer named Paul Mazurkiewicz, who would go on to become the backbone of Cannibal Corpse. The energy was raw, the room was chaos, and the seed was planted.

From those early Buffalo nights grew The Real Rulers, then RULE, and eventually the project that carries Rick's spirit forward: Dethbed. Every riff, every track, every show is a tribute to the man who made it all possible.