kûr'nel

From Summer 1992 through Summer 1996, we had a band--a band that started out as "Drag Link" and ended up as "kûr'nel". We gigged a lot, as headliners and opening acts, from Houston to Panama City. We played with many bands--some that made it, some that faded into obscurity. We had some incredible gigs, we had some horrible gigs. We had some of the biggest names in the industry at our shows, and we had riots and raids at our shows. We saw it all, everything except a record deal. So we released our own material with our own money, promoting it by ourselves, with help from some of our die-hard friends. Whenever we were faced with obstacles placed by certain elements of the music industry that didn't want us to be heard, we pushed and kicked our way through and got heard anyway. In the end, though, those elements won. The internal conflicts and frustration that had always simmered beneath the surface of the band, combined with constant resistance from the scene to our style of music, finally did us in. Our weaknesses exploited, the artistic direction of the band in limbo, and a general feeling of exhaustion from fighting the forces that were (but are no longer) convinced us to close up shop in July of 1996. Until the end, though, we stayed true to the ideal that we founded the band on--filter our influences through our own instinct for "death groove", pepper them with New Orleans-style jazz riffing, and create a wholly original sound; a sound we liked to call "jazz-core". And that's what we did--and no one else has or will ever be able to recreate that sound. And like so many bands we've played with, that sound now fades into obscurity. CLICK HERE TO GET A NEW LAYOUT