Chat Pile

Art by: Grady Gordon and Suz Yeremyan

This is a pre-order item with a release date of September 4, 2026. Anything else purchased in the same order will not be shipping until these are in stock and ready to ship.

Printed on Gildan Hammer (H000) T-Shirt

203g/㎡
100% Combed Ring Spun US Cotton
Heavyweight soft ring spun fabric
Modern classic fit tubular body
2.22cm rib collar
Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems
Grey pearlized tear away label
Taped neck and shoulders

Art by Damien Cindy

This is a pre-order item with a release date of September 4, 2026. Anything else purchased in the same order will not be shipping until these are in stock and ready to ship.

Approximately 48" x 48" cloth banner featuring the artwork from Chat Pile's "Who Loves the Sun."

Printed on AS Colour Relax (5161) Hoodie

Relaxed fit
Mid weight, 320 GSM
80% cotton 20% recycled polyester fleece
Pullover hood, drop shoulder, kangaroo pocket, lined hood, no drawcord, sleeve cuff ribbing

Model is 175cm and wearing size Large 

Printed on Gildan Hammer (H000) T-Shirt

203g/㎡
100% Combed Ring Spun US Cotton
Heavyweight soft ring spun fabric
Modern classic fit tubular body
2.22cm rib collar
Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems
Grey pearlized tear away label
Taped neck and shoulders

Model is 190cm and wearing size Large

Printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton (5400) Long Sleeve T-Shirt

180g/㎡
100% US Cotton
Classic fit tubular body and midweight fabric
2.22cm rib collar
Double-needle bottom hem
Grey pearlized tear away label
Rib cuffs
Taped neck and shoulders

Model is 175cm and wearing size Large

Printed on Gildan Hammer (H000) T-Shirt

203g/㎡
100% Combed Ring Spun US Cotton
Heavyweight soft ring spun fabric
Modern classic fit tubular body
2.22cm rib collar
Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems
Grey pearlized tear away label
Taped neck and shoulders

Model is 185cm and wearing size Large

Embroidered on AS Colour Access Six Panel (1130) Hat

Low profile six panel cap, curved peak
Adjustable fastener with metal clasp, tonal under-peak lining
Light weight
100% cotton
One size fits all

Printed on Gildan Ultra Cotton (2400) Long Sleeve T-Shirt

203g/㎡
100% US Cotton
Classic fit tubular body
Classic heavyweight fabric
2.22cm rib collar
Double-needle bottom hem
Grey pearlized tear away label
Rib cuffs
Taped neck and shoulders

Model is 190cm and wearing size Large

Printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton (5000) T-Shirt

180g/㎡
100% US Cotton
2.22cm rib collar
Classic fit tubular body
Classic midweight fabric
Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems
Grey razor tear away label
Taped neck and shoulders

Model is 190cm and wearing size Large

In the spring of 2019, a new rock band made up of four otherwise ordinary Okies emerged seemingly out of nowhere, swiftly turning heads with a grotesque new take on noise rock—one fuelled by the existential anguish that has defined the 21st century. Taking its name from the towering mounds of toxic waste that stand as monuments to capitalism’s cruel hubris across its home state, Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile made an immediate impression. That momentum culminated in the release of its landmark 2022 debut album, God’s Country, and its expansive 2024 follow-up, Cool World.

While the massive success of God’s Country propelled the quartet from underground favourites to international sensation, Chat Pile’s mission to push rock music to new zeniths of intensity was part of the plan from the very beginning. In fact, during the first few months of its existence, the band began writing and recording some of the heaviest, most hellish, and harrowing material in its entire catalog—laying the foundation for the themes and sonic traits that would later define their debut LP. The result of these early sessions was a pair of EPs: This Dungeon Earth and Remove Your Skin Please, released in the summer and winter of 2019, respectively.

Originally issued by Reptilian Records in 2020, The Flenser is proud to present a special reissue of Chat Pile’s pivotal first two EPs, now compiled onto a single disc. This dual-EP compilation captures the earliest moments of the Oklahoma City quartet’s discography—a snapshot of the band’s pre-Flenser days and the eight tracks of noxious, nihilistic noise rock that helped propel them from local oddity to globe-spanning underground heavyweights.

Track Listing:

1. Face
2. Rainbow Meat    
3. Rat Boy
4. Crawlspace
5. Dallas Beltway
6. Mask
7. Davis
8. Garbage Man

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. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has struck 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.

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.

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. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to God’s Country to still capture the immediate, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile, we also knew that with Cool World, we’d want to stretch the definition of our “sound” to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.

The proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence. Whether it be the cycle of creating and passively consuming literal and figurative violence on sister tracks “Camcorder” and “Tape”, the diminishment of crimes against humanity by way of foreign policy and colonialism on “Shame”, or the mental anguish of hopelessness on “The New World”, Cool World is an apocalyptically bleak record. Sure, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest: undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the moment but leaving a looming dread in the back of one’s mind for how close the horrors depicted mirror reality.

“If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” explains Busch, “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.”

Cool World will be released via The Flenser on October 11, 2024.