---
title: "Viral Load"
type: "MusicGroup"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/band/viral-load"
genre: "Death Metal"
country: "United States"
formed: 1996
disbanded: 2012
---

# Viral Load

**Viral Load** is a death metal band, from United States, active 1996 to 2012.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Viral Load |
| Genre | Death Metal |
| Parent genre | Death Metal |
| Origin | Houston, United States |
| Formed | 1996 |
| Disbanded | 2012 |
| Releases in catalog | 5 |

## Genres

[Death Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-metal) · [Brutal Death Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/brutal-death)

## Line-up

| Musician | Instruments | Years | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Shawn Whitaker](https://themetalnet.com/musician/shawn-whitaker) |  |  | Current |
| [Uncleansed](https://themetalnet.com/musician/uncleansed) | Drums (drum set) |  | Current |

## Discography

| Year | Release | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1997 | [Brutalized Beyond Belief](https://themetalnet.com/album/2ffc4fcb-a2d1-38c3-8d20-a51cdc90b9a6) | Album |
| 2001 | [Practitioners of Perversion](https://themetalnet.com/album/19871d14-f105-300b-807b-b3102c2e743d) | Album |
| 2006 | [Backwoods Bludgeoning (Sick Hicks From the Sticks)](https://themetalnet.com/album/f38e84f2-04b5-48b8-9021-1f7af38c04ee) | Album |
| 2007 | [Hillbilly Whore Hackin' Revival](https://themetalnet.com/album/ee07dcb5-5144-49ab-b3b4-c3739605006f) | EP |
| 2010 | [Viral Load / Putrid Pile](https://themetalnet.com/album/bdf9a5cc-612f-4d79-98a2-72819b3235e4) | EP |

## Related bands

- [Putrid Pile](https://themetalnet.com/band/putrid-pile) (listened together)
- [Devourment](https://themetalnet.com/band/devourment) (listened together)
- [Deeds of Flesh](https://themetalnet.com/band/deeds-of-flesh) (listened together)
- [Suffocation](https://themetalnet.com/band/suffocation) (listened together)
- [Gortuary](https://themetalnet.com/band/gortuary) (listened together)
- [Dying Fetus](https://themetalnet.com/band/dying-fetus) (listened together)
- [Origin](https://themetalnet.com/band/origin) (listened together)
- [Brodequin](https://themetalnet.com/band/brodequin) (listened together)
- [Severe Torture](https://themetalnet.com/band/severe-torture) (listened together)
- [Cannibal Corpse](https://themetalnet.com/band/cannibal-corpse) (listened together)
- [Pathology](https://themetalnet.com/band/pathology) (listened together)
- [Defeated Sanity](https://themetalnet.com/band/defeated-sanity) (listened together)

## Official and external links

- metal archives: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Viral_Load/2665

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/band/viral-load](https://themetalnet.com/band/viral-load). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt