American Heritage

Since being formed in 1997 by guitarist Andrei Cabanban, bassist Adam Norden, and drummer Scott Shellhamer, Chicago's American Heritage have constantly defied songwriting stereotypes with their brain-twisting, predominantly instrumental, anti-art, art metal. To do so they've toured and recorded to equal measures of lofty critical acclaim and widespread confusion, as well as continual membership turnover, which has included Shellhammer being replaced by Mike Duffy after the band's first show in 1998 (only to return as rhythm guitarist three years later), and Cabanban's eventual...