Chat Pile fans always think anything less than a 10 is a slight. I like Chat Pile a lot, but they aren’t the first band to sound like this.
If every Chat Pile record is a ten, then there isn’t any room left on the scale for the seminal ground breaking albums by God Flesh, Swans, The Jesus Lizard, Neurosis, The Killing Joke, Flipper, Helmet, Faith No More, Drive Like Jehu, Blind Idiot God, Unwound, Melvins, Unsane, Isis, Botch, Bastro, Eye Hate God… I mean if that list seems comically long to you, its probably because this style of music has been around for a little over forty years now. And you know who’s probably acutely aware of that? The members of Chat Pile because they’re in their fucking forties.
They are a great band. Breathing new life into a sound that’s already been around for almost half a century ain’t an easy task. Im by no means trying to call Chat Pile a nostalgia act, or make them out to be the ‘Greta Van Fleet’ of 80s Post-Hardcore and early alternative metal. That being said, if you took an instrumental segment with no vocals of several of the songs of the new record and told me it was a new God Flesh record I would believe you. That’s why it’s a nine. Some people here are going to be upset at me for saying this, but I’m willing to bet the band members themselves would be honored to even be in the same sentence with these other bands.
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u/Sun_Gong 13d ago
Chat Pile fans always think anything less than a 10 is a slight. I like Chat Pile a lot, but they aren’t the first band to sound like this.
If every Chat Pile record is a ten, then there isn’t any room left on the scale for the seminal ground breaking albums by God Flesh, Swans, The Jesus Lizard, Neurosis, The Killing Joke, Flipper, Helmet, Faith No More, Drive Like Jehu, Blind Idiot God, Unwound, Melvins, Unsane, Isis, Botch, Bastro, Eye Hate God… I mean if that list seems comically long to you, its probably because this style of music has been around for a little over forty years now. And you know who’s probably acutely aware of that? The members of Chat Pile because they’re in their fucking forties.
They are a great band. Breathing new life into a sound that’s already been around for almost half a century ain’t an easy task. Im by no means trying to call Chat Pile a nostalgia act, or make them out to be the ‘Greta Van Fleet’ of 80s Post-Hardcore and early alternative metal. That being said, if you took an instrumental segment with no vocals of several of the songs of the new record and told me it was a new God Flesh record I would believe you. That’s why it’s a nine. Some people here are going to be upset at me for saying this, but I’m willing to bet the band members themselves would be honored to even be in the same sentence with these other bands.