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.
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.
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] DBC released two albums and toured in mostly Canada and the United States, playing with bands such as Slayer, Metal Church, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Lȧȧz Rockit, the Crumbsuckers, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Nomeansno, Blind Illusion, Ludichrist, Zoetrope, Detente and Groovy Aardvark, as well as their Canadian thrash metal peers Voivod, Sacrifice, Razor and Obliveon.
[3] Other than playing live relentlessly, and a music video for "The Genesis Explosion" (from Universe) receiving considerable airplay on MusiquePlus,[1] DBC never got the success other thrash metal bands achieved.