Review of Mapmaker - "Automation"
INDEPENDENT INSANITY By: Geoff Teach There are truly just not enough hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a month, and months in a...
"Self-Realization Never Sounded So Good" - An interview with White Arms of Athena
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach When it comes to metal, most bands can be broken down into two categories: Bands that stick to a...
Review of Obituary - "Inked In Blood"
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach When I was thirteen years old, I bought an album that would forever change me. After having discovered...
Review of Machine Head - "Bloodstone & Diamonds"
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach Every metal act that spends twenty years in the international spotlight will eventually gain its fair...
Review of Lelahell - "Al Insane...The (Re)birth of Abderrahmane"
INDEPENDENT INSANITY By: Geoff Teach Algeria is not known as a hot bed for heavy metal. The North African country is normally known for...
Review of Black Crown Initiate - "The Wreckage of Stars"
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach In a year that has already seen a plethora of astounding metal releases, yet another groundbreaking...
Ten Years Later: Decapitated's "The Negation"
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach 2004 was a year of transition for heavy metal. Nu-metal was still writhing and wriggling, although it...
Review of Hideous Divinity - "Cobra Verde"
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach Inspired music can come from anywhere and be about anything. Italy’s Hideous Divinity, an extreme tech...
Review of Between the Buried and Me - "Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium" DVD
MID-MAJOR MAYHEM By: Geoff Teach Between the Buried and Me’s members are no strangers to writing long, complicated pieces that purposely...
Review of Existential Animals - "Surrealith" E.P.
INDEPENDENT INSANITY By: Geoff Teach Here in Chicago, we metal heads are accustomed to being immersed in instrumental metal. We are...