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Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It’s self-parody in its bleakest form and within that nihilism something undeniably alluring that four slacker okies would channel into a sound that has captivated the underground and beyond.
Formed in 2019 and adopting the aliases of Stin (bass), Captain Ron (drums), Luther Manhole (guitar), and Raygun Busch (vocals), Chat Pile generated an immediate stir amid a burgeoning Midwest noise rock renaissance and beyond, releasing two EPs, This Dungeon Earth and Remove Your Skin Please. Its debut full-length record God’s Country, released via The Flenser in 2022, would take the world by storm, receiving universal critical acclaim, numerous accolades including Pitchfork’s Best New Music and countless year-end lists, including Rolling Stone’s Best Metal Albums of the Year and SPIN’s Best Albums of 2022. Chat Pile would enter 2023 with a bang, in just the first six months alone, the band served as support for Lingua Ignota’s final run of shows, released Brothers In Christ, a split EP with fellow “Flyover-Country” noise rock outfit Nerver, and made its fiery international live performance debut at Roadburn 2023.
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Chat Pile Biography
Throughout parts of the mid-western United States lie towering mounds of the waste residue
from early 20th Century lead mining operations. Comprised of what is known as "chat," these
hills of toxic, metallic dust dot the countryside as if they were headstones for communities
destroyed by industrialization such as Picher, Oklahoma. These effigies would come to be the
namesake for the Oklahoma based band, Chat Pile, whose grotesque and pummeling brand of
noise rock has managed to terrorize listeners worldwide in only a matter of months.
Intent on raising as much havoc as possible, Chat Pile was spawned from the bowels of the
OKC underground music scene in February of 2019. Consisting of Raygun Busch (vocals),
Luther Manhole (Guitars), Stin (Bass), and Captain Ron (Drums), the quartet brings with them a
sludgy and starkly nihilistic take on noise rock. Channeling everything from the oppressive
sludgy beat downs of Godflesh, the vulgar absurdity of The Jesus Lizard, and the rebellious,
post-modern experimentation of Sonic Youth, the works of Chat Pile are bleak, brutal and
genuinely terrifying.
Few bands have a level of self-understanding as Chat Pile. Despite the infancy of the project,
Chat Pile continues to be a standout among the sea of D.I.Y. music projects to come out in
recent memory. Their brand of crass, crushing, and poignantly cynical noise rock fills an
otherwise unaccounted for niche in today's underground music landscape.
- Evan Mester
Read Morefrom early 20th Century lead mining operations. Comprised of what is known as "chat," these
hills of toxic, metallic dust dot the countryside as if they were headstones for communities
destroyed by industrialization such as Picher, Oklahoma. These effigies would come to be the
namesake for the Oklahoma based band, Chat Pile, whose grotesque and pummeling brand of
noise rock has managed to terrorize listeners worldwide in only a matter of months.
Intent on raising as much havoc as possible, Chat Pile was spawned from the bowels of the
OKC underground music scene in February of 2019. Consisting of Raygun Busch (vocals),
Luther Manhole (Guitars), Stin (Bass), and Captain Ron (Drums), the quartet brings with them a
sludgy and starkly nihilistic take on noise rock. Channeling everything from the oppressive
sludgy beat downs of Godflesh, the vulgar absurdity of The Jesus Lizard, and the rebellious,
post-modern experimentation of Sonic Youth, the works of Chat Pile are bleak, brutal and
genuinely terrifying.
Few bands have a level of self-understanding as Chat Pile. Despite the infancy of the project,
Chat Pile continues to be a standout among the sea of D.I.Y. music projects to come out in
recent memory. Their brand of crass, crushing, and poignantly cynical noise rock fills an
otherwise unaccounted for niche in today's underground music landscape.
- Evan Mester
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