Hillbilly Whore Hackin Revival

I can't think of any really good excuses for this, it's simply not very good. The stuff on this EP sounds exactly like a bunch of fourth-rate Insidious Decrepancy songs with a bit of shoehorned 'oldschool' influence from bands like Suffocation. It's a totally unnecessary project, the sort of thing that sounds like a favor for a friend. "Shawn, Shawn, let's have a band together", that sort of thing. It may make for some great fun in your bedroom (as well as a slowly growing breed of resentment from the more talented party) but it makes for some really uninteresting music. This is literally just low-quality Insidious Decrepancy with real drums and essentially nothing more.

Even the production sounds exactly like Insidious Decrepancy, with the same slightly synthetic guitar tone, same spacious drums and vocals, same everything, there's no POINT to this project except for allowing Shawn to not have to consult a thesaurus while writing song titles. A couple covers of classic bands are tossed at the end like a wad of tissues designed to distract from the fact that Viral Load's music is entirely unremarkable and attempt to give it some personality through osmosis, but it doesn't fucking work! It's Insidious Decrepancy made boring. Technical guitars, technical drums, growly vocals, it all adds up to nothing but boredom on the part of the listener. Shawn can and has done better.

Needless to say you can skip this one without trouble unless you desperately want to hear modern brutal death covers of songs that weren't that good to begin with, or if your love for Insidious Decrepancy continues even when it slaps you around and fucks other women.