Decontrol was born in 1980, started as a two-man hardcore outfit by Adam Avery. Adam played a combination guitar / bass along with a bass drum over original singer Zero's caterwalling vocals. It was horrible, but soon became 100% better when Adam fired the other half of Decontrol and recruited the amazing skills of Ritchie Birch on guitar and Keith Lenderman on drums. Adam settled on bass and vocals.

Soon, they gained quite a reputation in the Philadelphia scene, playing gigs with bands such as the Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, Minutemen, GBH, Discharge, TSOL, DOA, etc. Along with live performances on Penn State and Drexel U. radio, they played a zillion gigs at places like Rutgers University, CBGB's, The Philly Punk Fests, Dobbs, and the East Side Club.

They released the now classic 15 minute-long epic "Songs from the Gut" LP in 1985, and in 1987, with the late John Wolfinger on bass, they released an album on Hardly Records called simply "Decontrol" which gained them many more American and European fans. There was also the biker-punk EP "Born to be Wild".

After many personnel changes and two drummers named Chuck, Decontrol still plays on. Furiously as ever in the original formula, but with Ritchie's brother Rob filling the drumming boots. Decontrol is now preparing a new CD with 12 new songs, along with most of the above remastered and crammed onto one disc!

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