LABEL: Flenser
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2022
VARIANT: Colored Vinyl LP

Theres a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then Gods Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.

Having lived alongside the heaps of toxic refuse that the band derives its name from, the fatalism of daily life in the American Midwest permeates throughout the works of Chat Pile, and especially so on its debut album. Exasperated by the pandemic, the hopelessness of climate change, the cattle shoot of global capitalism, and fueled by …lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of THC, Gods Country is as much of an acknowledgement of the Earths most assured demise as it is a snarling violent act of defiance against it. Within its over forty minute runtime, the album displays both Chat Piles most aggressively unhinged and contemplatively nuanced moments to date, drawing from its preceding two EPs and its score for the 2021 film, Tenkiller. In the bands own words, the album is, at its heart, Oklahomas specific brand of misery. A misery intent on taking all down with it and its cacophonous chaos on its own terms as opposed to idly accepting its otherwise assured fall. This is what the end of the world sounds like.