After hearing Slayer's debut album 'Show Know Mercy' Gerry and I decided we wanted to start a band. Gerry & I have been friends since grade 5, we both got into Metal at the same time. We started writing songs together but had problems finding a drummer. We decided to put an ad up looking for a drummer, we called ourselves Final Chapter. We got two responses, one from a drummer that we jammed with once, he wasn't up to the challenge of playing our style. The other response was from Mike Zabo, a local hardcore show promoter, and lead singer for Genetic Control, a Montreal hardcore band. Mike wanted us to join his band but it never worked out. He started writing lyrics for the songs Gerry & I had written, while always searching for a drummer.
Dave Javex, the lead singer for Vomit and the Zits, introduced us to Jeff, his drummer, to start a fun project on the side. We got Phil, who I met in college, to switch from guitar to bass, the band was complete. We had our first jam on February 4th, we completed 4 songs that night. Now we just needed a name, since it was Javex that got us together, he came up with the name. The choices were The Mental Pukes, The Retarded Assholes or Dead Brain Cells. We decided on Dead Brain Cells.
