Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet CHAT PILE is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. Dread has replaced the American dream, and CHAT PILE’s’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band moulded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems.