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

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". 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. The band's first album, Dead Brain Cells, was released in 1987, followed two years later by a concept album, Universe. Musically and lyrically, those two albums are different from each other; Dead Brain Cells had a crossover thrash edge, featuring songs about politics and society in general (laced with humor), while Universe was considerably more of a technical/progressive thrash metal record and its lyrical themes focus more on science fiction as opposed to the lyrical content of its predecessor.

Other than playing live relentlessly, and a music video for "The Genesis Explosion" (from Universe) receiving considerable airplay on MusiquePlus,

Their song, "The Genesis Explosion", was featured in a Canadian television commercial for Microcell Telecommunications in 2005.

Discography

  • Dead Brain Cells (1987)
  • "Deadlock"
  • "Monument"
  • "Lies"
  • "Power and Corruption"
  • "Tempest"
  • "Public Suicide"
  • "Negative Reinforcement"
  • "Outburst"
  • "M.I.A."
  • "Terrorist Mind"
  • "The Vice"
  • "Trauma X"
  • "Final Act"
  • Universe (1989)
  • "The Genesis Explosion"
  • "Heliosphere"
  • "Primordium"
  • "Exit the Giants"
  • "Rise of Man"
  • "Estuary"
  • "Humanity's Child"
  • "Phobos and Deimos"
  • "Threshold"
  • "Infinite Universe"
  • Unreleased (1995)
  • "Third Coming"
  • "Brick by Brick"
  • "Siren's Song"
  • "Waste Not, Want More"
  • "Rude Awakening"
  • "Root to All Evil"
  • Singles (2024)
  • "Pendulum"
  • "Sirens"

References

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