Ken Decter, who performs as Duke Decter is an American hardcore punk guitarist and entertainer. Decter started his career at 15 years of age in the South Florida hardcore punk band "F". The band toured with The Ramones in 1988. In 1989, Decter joined Disorderly Conduct, a metal-edged punk band also from South Florida featuring Casey Chaos. Decter was voted "best new hardcore guitarist" in Famous Hardcore fanzine. Disorderly Conduct became Amen in Los Angeles, with Casey Chaos as their frontman.

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  • Ken Decter, who performs as Duke Decter is an American hardcore punk guitarist and entertainer. Decter started his career at 15 years of age in the South Florida hardcore punk band "F". The band toured with The Ramones in 1988. In 1989, Decter joined Disorderly Conduct, a metal-edged punk band also from South Florida featuring Casey Chaos. Decter was voted "best new hardcore guitarist" in Famous Hardcore fanzine. Disorderly Conduct became Amen in Los Angeles, with Casey Chaos as their frontman. Subsequently, Decter joined the Ex-Idols, who in 1995 toured with English punk band the UK Subs. In 1998 the Ex-Idols were dropped from their label and Decter joined Skold, the solo project of Tim Skold, now Marilyn Manson, songwriter and bassist. Skold toured the U.S. Decter and Skold were featured in In God's Hands, a fictional surf film directed by Zalman King In 2000, Decter toured and played in other various bands including Drown and Diatribe, and in 2004 rejoined Casey Chaos in his band Amen. In 2006 the band recorded a performance for The Henry Rollins Show. It became the first act on the show to have material edited out by the IFC Channel. This was done in response to political death threats. In 2007 the edited version of the performance was broadcast internationally, showing the band performing "Coma America" and "Liberation". A third song, "Another Planet", was only shown on the IFC website. In 2007 Amen co-headlined the "Damnation Festival" - a metal based rock festival in the UK and toured Scotland, Ireland, and the UK.
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  • Ken Decter, who performs as Duke Decter is an American hardcore punk guitarist and entertainer. Decter started his career at 15 years of age in the South Florida hardcore punk band "F". The band toured with The Ramones in 1988. In 1989, Decter joined Disorderly Conduct, a metal-edged punk band also from South Florida featuring Casey Chaos. Decter was voted "best new hardcore guitarist" in Famous Hardcore fanzine. Disorderly Conduct became Amen in Los Angeles, with Casey Chaos as their frontman.
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