Chat Pile

Huck N’ Roll’s and Cherd’s Top Ten(ish) of 2022

By Dr. A.N. Grier on December 28, 2022 in Blog Posts, Lists, 84 comments

Huck N’ Roll and Cherd have important opinions on what was the cream of the crop in 2022. Now you’re going to hear about it.

Doom_et_Al’s and Dear Hollow’s Top Ten(ish) of 2022

By Dr. A.N. Grier on December 27, 2022 in Blog Posts, Lists, 115 comments

Doom_et_Al and Dear Hollow spice up the season with their Top Ten(ish) of 2022. Come for the selections, stay to harass them over same.

KEN mode – NULL Review

By Dolphin Whisperer on September 26, 2022 in Reviews, Hardcore, Noise, Sludge Metal, 32 comments

“No, this album has nothing to do with our favorite sponge friend. Yes, this album has everything to do with FOUR angry Canadians now that KEN mode has promoted Kathryn Kerr, a one-woman wrecking ball of saxophone, synth, and piano prowess, previously guest-credited on 2018’s Loved. Did you think that KEN mode would go full saxcore after that experimental sludgeball? Well, I bet your 2022 bingo card is all kinds of fucked up at this point, so let’s make this one easy: KEN mode—or more accurately, primary bleeding heart Jesse Matthewson—hated the past couple years and it shows.” No dream house for you!

Record(s) o’ the Month – July 2022

By Steel Druhm on August 29, 2022 in Reviews, 182 comments

“Keeping to our hollowed tradition of fashionably late Record(s) o’ the Month entries, we will now take a look back to July as it fades into the haze of memory.” The past is now, olde man!

Chat Pile – God’s Country Review

By Cherd on August 1, 2022 in Reviews, Noise, Sludge, 162 comments

“Hopelessness is both a universal and local phenomenon. It’s always the same handful of pressures that cause it; resource inaccessibility, environmental/health factors, power held by the unscrupulous, etc, but every place has its own particular aesthetic of hopelessness. Despondency in, say, Guangzhou, China will look, sound and feel different than it does in the American Midwest. Sludge/Noise band Chat Pile call their debut album God’s Country “Oklahoma’s specific brand of misery,” and indeed their name itself comes from the piles of toxic waste, left over from an unregulated lead and zinc extraction industry, poisoning towns in the Sooner State.” American nightmares.