San Francisco's Burmese were a guitar-less trio or quartet (two basses and one or two drums) who, inspired by Whitehouse's horror free-form noise, by the more abstract forms of grindcore and occasionally by Earth's subsonic drones, crafted the dense, chaotic, frenzied and heavy 21 brief songs of Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys Environment (2000).

They turned to midtempo gothic music on the LP A Mere Shadow And Reminiscence Of Humanity (tUMULt, 2001) and the EP Men (Load, 2004).

White (2003) was a Whitehouse tribute album.