New LP ‘Cool World’ out October 11, on tour this November in North America. Roadburn (NL) appearance confirmed for 2025.

Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, ‘Cool World’ makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just ‘God’s Country’ to the entirety of humankind. “‘Cool World’ covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another,” says vocalist Raygun Busch. “If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” Busch continues, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – ‘Cool World’ is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.” The Oklahoma City noise rock quartet will release album October 11th via The Flenser. Band premiere the album’s second single ‘Masc’ with an epic, narrative music video by Stephen Mondics (director) and Mario DeLeon (producer). Bassist Stin comments, “This is our first time collaborating with Stephen Mondics and the band is completely blown away with how well he was able to capture the spirit of the song. As huge movie buffs, it’s also a legitimate dream-come-true to have a music video shot completely on film under our belts.” Busch adds, “‘Masc’ is the saddest Chat Pile song since ‘Tenkiller.’ Unlike the rest of the album, this song deals with horrors of interpersonal intimacy, yet it is connected with the rest of the record through the overarching theme of oppression, despair and malaise.”

See Chat Pile on the road this fall with Agriculture and Mamaleek and catch them at 2025 Roadburn Fest in Tilburg, NL.

Chat Pile, on tour:

August 31 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Sanctuary [sold out]
September 7 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck [sold out]
October 31 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street $
November 1 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street % [sold out]
November 2 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note %
November 3 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room %
November 5 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall %
November 6 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line %
November 8 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s #
November 9 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre #
November 11 Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall #
November 12 Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount #
November 14 Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge @ Higher Ground ^
November 15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church ^
November 16 New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge ^
November 17 Boston, MA – The Sinclair ^
November 19 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery *
November 20 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry *
November 21 Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819 *
November 22 Nashville, TN – The End *

April 17-20 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival

$ with Nightosphere, Nerver
% with Agriculture, Porcelain
# with Agriculture, Traindodge
^ with Mamaleek, Traindodge
* with Mamaleek, thirdface

Like the towering mounds of toxic waste, the music of Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems. Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on ‘Cool World’ not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence.

‘Cool World’, tracklisting:

I Am Dog Now
Shame
Frownland
Funny Man
Camcorder
Tape
The New World
Masc
Milk Of Human Kindness
No Way Out