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week of 9/28/25 - been spinning some Chat Pile lately. last thursday i listened to another album of theirs called “God’s Country”. 9 tracks, with the last about 9 minutes in track duration. sounded disgusting and raw, like the sight of maggots & flies over some poor opossum’s body (this means it sounds really good). the tracks “Pamela” (3rd) and “I Don’t Care if I Burn” (8th) are the ones that stand out the most to me.
Every track is super raw, but “Pamela” takes me to a place. If I had the vocabulary, i’d describe it in great detail, but the best I can say is that it sounds like what horror movies feel like to me. i don’t watch much horror movies so it’s a whole other world i’m not used to. when i do, i feel everything that they have to offer. great writing. i read a youtube comment that said the song’s about the 1st Friday the 13th. though i haven’t watched the movies at all, I get the gist of the franchise. i agree with that youtube comment. “Pamela” seems to be written from the perspective of Michael Myers’ father. Michael’s death haunts the mind of his father, so he resurrects Michael in the conclusion. the song is great, amazing vocal delivery from Raygun Busch.
“I Don’t Care if I Burn”. not a lot going on instrumentally, just footsteps to keep tempo & cracks of fire i assume. very quiet track. i’m gonna bring back the “horror movie thing” here and say that they nailed it at building the atmosphere. i remember Busch screaming at some part in the song, so I was waiting for that, and the creeping feeling that it’s coming up soon…..yes, man. its like walking down some dark long ass hallway expecting something to just get you…had me on the edge of my seat, my heart beat rate picked up. its the intro to “grimace_smoking_weed_.jpeg” and fits exactly where it should be.
Chat Pile’s “God’s Country” is called a sludge metal/noise rock/whatever else album. it’s dark & heavy. its disgusting. it’s Chat Pile, and it’s terribly good.
apologies for the opossum line, it may have been unnecessarily described. i wrote for an hour in the deep of night because Chat Pile is that good.
oki bye bye :D
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