texas is the reason

"Growing up, we had a small garden with a couple of tomato plants, but my grandfather had a gigantic garden in his backyard. I remember going out to his house on Eastern Long Island and running through the house to see what new stuff he had planted...

Texas is the Reason guitarist Norman Brannon wistfully invokes the title of his band's single benchmark LP. It's the Sunday before Christmas in Brooklyn the now near-40-year-old is still trying to come to terms with the legacy his mid-'90s post-hardcore band have left since calling it a day in 1997...

The news is out that guitarist Brian "Head" Welch" will perform two full sets with his former band, Korn. Head, who split in 2005 and became a Born Again Christian, launched a solo career, and currently plays in a group called Love and Death, will take up the axe and perform with his ex-band bros at Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in June 2013 in Germany...

Japanese band Fact, newly signed to Vagrant Records, owe a bit to the 1990s era of post-hardcore and bands like Quicksand and Texas is the Reason on their self-titled debut. Bassist Tomohiro told Noisecreep, via a translator, "We listened to a lot of 90s metal and hardcore, but to be honest, we aren't really familiar with a lot of the current metal and hardcore bands...