Oklahoma’s Chat Pile is heavy, sludgy, and gloriously gnarly. Underneath all that grime lies razor-sharp social commentary and a twisted sense of dark comedy. Their songs sound like they’re rotting from the inside out, yet you can’t stop hitting play.
‘This Dungeon Earth / Remove Your Skin Please’ is a sludge-soaked, noise-rock fever dream, equal parts decaying basement show and apocalyptic hallucination. Across these two 2019 EPs, Chat Pile blend grotesque humor, bleak societal observations, and suffocating heaviness into something that sticks to you like grime you can’t quite scrub off.
‘This Dungeon Earth’ is the nastier and more suffocating of the two. “Dallas Beltway” drags you through swamp-thick riffs that feel like they’re melting in slow motion, while “Crawlspace” is pure claustrophobia. You can practically feel the dirt under your fingernails. It’s the kind of record that makes you want to shower after listening, but you still queue it up again.
‘Remove Your Skin Please’ stretches out a bit more, but it’s no less deranged. “Face” starts hypnotic before spiraling into a full-on breakdown, and “Davis” is a bizarre, deadpan tale that’s somehow both hilarious and unsettling. It is peak Chat Pile absurdity. Buried under all the grime are weirdly addictive hooks, like the band accidentally built a dumpster fire that you can’t look away from.
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