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UNBELIEVABLE: Chat pile - The Untold Story

Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun review – sludge metallers resurface with a slightly limiting alt-rock rebrand

The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their third album lacks the distinction of earlier releases

The Guardian - UK

From American thrash to Japanese metalcore: the 8 new metal songs that everyone needs to hear this week

Hear these fine offerings from Anthrax, Hanabie, Amon Amarth and more, then vote for your favourite

Metal Hammer

The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

unpeople, Bring Me The Horizon and Ho99o9 are just some of the bands who are vying for your vote in this week's new song round-up

Metal Hammer

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"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world, AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs." Chat Pile announce third album Who Loves The Sun

Oklahoma City-based quartet to release the follow-up to 2024's Cool World in September

Metal Hammer

Arctangent – the UK’s best prog metal festival – announces first bands for 2026, including Igorrr, Svalbard, Alcest, Agent Fresco, Chat Pile

The most forward-thinking bands in prog, post-rock and metal will once again gather at Bristol’s Fernhill Farm next August

Metal Hammer

"I get a kick out of pissing off the purists." From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

Metal Hammer

“In Guitar Center, people would think I was playing for the first time – but I promise you, my band makes better music than 80% of them”: Meet Chat Pile, the sludge metallers shouting down the “tone lords” and “goobers” ruining guitar culture

The self-taught DIY quartet are making seismic waves across the noise rock scene – and they’re doing it with cult electrics, solid-state amps and a baritone that’s neither a “djent stick” nor “a surf guitar made of plastic”

Guitar World

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‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile

Extracted from the vast US oilfields comes a pungent, heavy and energy-packed sound. Are noisenik outsiders Chat Pile about to become the region’s biggest export?

The Guardian - UK

All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

From Chat Pile’s apocalyptic noise to Nala Sinephro’s celestial bliss, plus posthumous releases from MC5 and Sophie, here are the albums and tours not to miss – while in classical, Kahchun Wong takes over at the Hallé

The Guardian - UK

The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Chat Pile, Oceans Of Slumber and Unto Others are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

Lynchian punk to Lady Gaga: the best music Guardian staff and writers discovered this year

Old or new, wildly popular or punishingly obscure: our critics share the best songs, albums and artists they found this year – and how they discovered them

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #49: Chat Pile’s Why is the protest song of 2022

In this week’s newsletter: They might balk at the thought, but the Oklahoma metal group could be the anthem we need in a time of political crisis

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