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God’s Country

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LM: When I like metal, it’s stuff like ‘Traveller’ by The Lord Weird Slough Feg. That’s an awesome heavy metal album. But I didn’t really get into metal through older-style thrash, so I’m kind of haterfied when it comes to the Eighties metal vibe. S: I can’t speak for the lyrics, but musically, where I have a bigger hand in things, I feel like we try to incorporate a lot of disparate elements and different genres of music. We try to incorporate them in a very stark, simple way, and we try to recontextualise things.

I think it’s fair to say Chat Pile swung out of nowhere, colliding with considerable force into 2022. Their debut God’s Country brought a thrilling mix of noise and despair that resonated widely. It topped Echoes and Dust’s album of the year list and made respectable appearances on many others. As the band get ready to head over to Europe this summer, here’s a good old fashioned split release, with their Brothers in Christ, to keep us all from getting too antsy about a new album.

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Stin: Ya, more than anything, we’re trying to capture the anxiety and fear of seeing the world fall apart. Raygun is especially talented at that, even if the lyrics are fantasy based at times. I think that that specific type of anxiety comes through no matter what. LM: I’ve always dug music which is like that lyrically, like The Mountain Goats and Daniel Johnston. I enjoy lyrics which are more like people talking rather than insane, dense prose. The more naturalistic-type stuff in general has always been very appealing to me. So I like when we get some of that in the lyrics, because that’s the type of stuff that I listen to. That’s ideal for me. S: Really busy. As mentioned, there’s the Lingua Ignota tour, then we make our European debut at Roadburn. We’ve got a split EP coming out with Nerver, a joint thing between Reptilian Records and The Ghost Is Clear. Simultaneously, we’re trying to write material for our next album. It’s very much in the early stages, but we’re trying to get ideas together and make a vision. Honestly, there’s probably more stuff going on that we can even handle, but we’re gonna take it as it comes [laughs].

In light of this award, we sat down with the band over video call to shoot the shit about the reaction to ‘God’s Country’, Chat Pile’s journey up until this point, and what the future has in store for the group.

Cap’n Ron: Yeah, it feels like its own entity now, or something like that. Like I’m now completely disassociated from it. S: And for us, you know, there’s a lot of comedy to be mined from extremely dark content. If anything, we have something of a skill of being able to ride that line, so that’s maybe where some of the camp comes in. I mean, ‘grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg’ is a funny title for a song, but the song covers incredibly dark subject matter. So if there is a camp element, that’s where it lives with us.

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