Dead Brain Cells

Dead Brain Cells are a Canadian thrash metal band that was active from 1986 to 1991, and they have reunited occasionally since the early 2000s.

Dead Brain Cells
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Thrash metal, speed metal, crossover thrash, hardcore punk
Years active	1986–1991, 2002–present
Labels	Combat Records
Associated acts	North End Metal All-Stars, Terratomb, Hellacaust
Members	Eddie Shahini Phil Dakin J. Quinn Graham Ferguson Bill Thompson Marc Prévost
Past members	Gerry Ouellette Jeff St. Louis

History

Called DBC for short, the band started in 1985 in Montreal as a small project named Final Chapter by guitar players Eddie Shahini and Gerry Ouellette, who put an ad in a magazine looking for a drummer. In 1986, former Vomit and the Zits singer Dave Javex Ray-O-Vac (David Leone) and former Unruled and Vomit and the Zits drummer Jeff Saint-Louis, joined with Shahini and Ouellette and guitar player Phil Dakin, who switched to bass. The project grew into a serious band which took the name Dead Brain Cells among three suggestions by Leone, the others being "The Mental Pukes" and "The Retarded Assholes".[1]

Leone had made commitments to his job and could not sing with the band anymore; instead of replacing him, Dakin decided he would sing and play bass at the same time.[1] The band released two albums and toured twice in the United States. Their first album, Dead Brain Cells, was released in 1987, followed two years later by a concept album, Universe. DBC broke up in 1991 while working on their next album, but they have since reunited occasionally,[1] and have new music in the works.[2]

Their song, "The Genesis Explosion", was featured in a Canadian television commercial for Microcell Telecommunications in 2005.[1] The commercial depicts an older woman using her cell phone to win a radio call-in show.

The band's guitarist, Gerry Ouellette, died on November 12, 1994.[1] Original DBC drummer Jeff St. Louis died on December 22, 2019, which happened to be his 61st birthday.

Shahini started a new band in 2009 called Kill of Rights, it includes music written from 1986 to 2013. They released their first album Sign of the Crimes on February 15, 2014.

Discography

• Dead Brain Cells (1987)
  1. "Deadlock"
  2. "Monument"
  3. "Lies"
  4. "Power and Corruption"
  5. "Tempest"
  6. "Public Suicide"
  7. "Negative Reinforcement"
  8. "Outburst"
  9. "M.I.A."
  10. "Terrorist Mind"
  11. "The Vice"
  12. "Trauma X"
  13. "Final Act"
• Universe (1989)
  1. "The Genesis Explosion"
  2. "Heliosphere"
  3. "Primordium"
  4. "Exit the Giants"
  5. "Rise of Man"
  6. "Estuary"
  7. "Humanity's Child"
  8. "Phobos and Deimos"
  9. "Threshold"
  10. "Infinite Universe"

References

1. "DBC Dead Brain Cells History". dbcuniverse.com. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
2. "Dead Brain Cells - New Music In The Works". Metal Storm. December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020.

External links

• Official DBC website
• Official DBC Myspace page
• DBC in Metal Archives