This week we're diving deep into the vaults of Load Records...most of you are probably familiar with Providence's long running Load Records for their

releases from Lightning Bolt, Brainbombs, Usaisamonster, and Prurient, but Load has also released some righteously metallic blats of fucked-up heaviness that

aren't nearly as well known. We've gone through their catalog and have started to stock some of these older weirdo-metal titles from Load for those of you

that might not have heard about these albums the first time around.

As technicians of blunt, brutal grindsludge, Burmese tore heads off with their first few albums on Tumult and that acidic turn they took on their split

with Fistula that we put out a few years back, but in the middle part of the decade, somewhere along the line Burmese suddenly became infatuated with the

transgressive, antisocial bile of Whitehouse, and began to veer off into a new sound that was heavily influenced by the UK power electronics legends. The

Whitehouse covers album that Burmese put out on Planaria was the pinnacle of this obsession, but with Men, the band's first (and to date, only)

album on Load, they managed to combine the frenzied, violent downtuned crush of their early material with the abstract harsh sonics and distorted ranting of

their newfound Whitehouse worship, making these six jams some of the most over the top and creeped out Burmese tracks that they've recorded. Two drummers and

two bassists, locked in a chaotic death struggle for audio supremacy, vicious shrieks and animalistic death metal roars over the drummers smashing their kits

into piles of gristle and bone, and mega blown out and crushing bass riffs splattering over the pummeling rhythmic onslaught. Ridiculously anti-social song

titles like "Rapewar" and "Preyer" and worse are coupled with hateful raving screamed into a megaphone in the William Bennet school of verbal assault.