Chat Pile – God’s Country

 

 

Chat Pile – God’s Country
The Flenser – 2022
Rock, Metal, Noise, Sludge, Punk
Rated: ***

We all have to make it through our days in one form or another. One of the things that has made it easier for me personally; as a highly sensitive person, I’ve recently tended to shy away from overtly depressive, nihilistic, and pessimistic music. But when everyone around me started raving about the new debut album God’s Country by Oklahoma residents Chat Pile, we had no choice. So, we dove headfirst into their muddy death grunge pool of grim and darkness. To be fair, the dark, the fierce anger, serve a purpose and are often used to ask the right questions about humanity and the decline of our western society. Alienation, pollution, homelessness, running rampant throughout civilization. But also, to fight off personal demons and diving deep into weird mirrors and strange personas to see things from a different kind of angle. The way vocalist Raygun Busch, screams, roars and rants gives even more worth to all that hurt. And the way the metal riffs, the noiserock, the postpunk and industrial influences will have you envision all those toxic landscapes, forlorn creatures and villages lost to our wrongful pursuit for the wrong kind of progress, is indeed something to rave about. Especially on those moments when Chat Pile’s madness, insanity and chaos find itself in a moment of pure and o’ so gritty poetry. But after running through the nine tracks, after ruining your so carefully build regiment of self-aid, you feel as tired and worn out by the struggles and the despair as the band often sounds. In God’s Country there houses a monster, a beast that will eat you from the inside, a Devil; once evoked will not go quietly unto its grave…

(Written by JK)

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