Burning Sons “Reduced to Equality” 2011. Mystic Records. Today June 20th is my friend, primary vinyl dealer (at RushMor Records) and Burning Sons drummer Dan DuChaine’s birthday. Local hardcore punk/thrash metal band Burning Sons opened for the Dead Kennedy’s last week at Turner Hall here in Milwaukee.

Reduced to Equality is loud, fast and brutal (if the cover wasn’t a good enough clue). You can listen to and purchase the record here but the bandcamp site does not include the little gem at the very end of Side B: a voicemail to Dan from some irate guy who just goes off, calling himself a sacrificial lamb because Dan offered him $5 for an Iron Maiden album and rambles on about nuclear weapons and aliens. It is weird. So Happy Birthday Dan! and I hope good triumphs over evil and the aliens don’t get you or whatever.