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Ironically, Chat Pile saves some of its more straightforward sludge metal riffs for the last and longest track on God's Country.
86
It’s too personably grounded and idiosyncratically voiced to be mistaken for anyone else’s recycled diatribe; it punches up tenaciously every step of the way; it’s ready for the end of days, and it hates itself for this with a vengeance.
84
Chat Pile are essentially a bunch of metal-loving righteous Loraxes who have come to tell us where we are going wrong while regaling us with the darkest stories from the underbelly of society. Best pay attention, then, folks. An instant classic.
84
Terrifying and thrilling in equal measure, the debut album from the Oklahoma City sludge-metal band is a vivid rendering of the towering piles of poison littering America’s psychic landscape.
80
A hell of a debut that isn't for the faint of heart.
80
Its power is found in the band’s ability to trap and pin you down to experience a place unholy – to transport you into their gnarled world that struggles to give way to its inevitable ruins.
80
Busch’s voice is wearier here than anywhere else on the record, settling into the cadences of an experimental murder ballad, threatening death upon someone with wealth—unaware of the ruination they caused for the narrator.
80
Throughout God’s Country, they manage to access the universal through the tiny door of the specific, a mark of artistic maturity. It’s a harrowing statement of despair, but one I can’t stop listening to. AOTY contender.
74
This album is about catharsis, yes, giving voice to the pain and anger of some people’s experience in a conflicted country. But mostly, it seems, it’s an attempt to open people’s eyes, to the darker realities just underneath our noses.
I love albums like this. Albums that are indulged in depravity, that sell you on these awful experiences. It's like a Meat Canyon video in song form, but not played for laughs. It's fucked up, and I love it.
PURPLE MAN? SMOKING WEED? IN MY BEEDROM?
This is my 2nd Re-listen to this album and not only the album is extremely distorted and also so disgusting at the same time, this album is defo a masterpiece in the metal sphere.
One of the DIRTIEST album's I have heard yet. Like I was literally covered in mud and shit while listening to this record.
God's Country is a sludge metal album where it's themes and lyricism will question yourself heavily. The vocals sound like he's being murdered, the bass and guitar sound very "sludgy" and ugly, and the drums have an electronic industrial sound to it that makes the album sound even more haunted altogether. It's a pretty disturbing album that I can understand if ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Slaughterhouse 4:12 | 88 |
| 2 | Why 3:31 | 87 |
| 3 | Pamela 4:57 | 86 |
| 4 | Wicked Puppet Dance 3:07 | 85 |
| 5 | Anywhere 5:47 | 86 |
| 6 | Tropical Beaches, Inc. 3:46 | 86 |
| 7 | The Mask 2:57 | 81 |
| 8 | I Don't Care If I Burn 2:54 | 73 |
| 9 | grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg 9:05 | 92 |
Total Length: 40 minutes
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2w
I just saw BC,NR live the other day and for whatever godforsaken reason the venue decided to play grimace_smoking_weed between their set and the opener's. It was a pleasant surprise, if an unexpected one.
3mo
Listening to grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg for the first time during his birthday and all the memes that go along with it has gotta be one of the best things to ever experience 💀💀💀💀
Added on: May 24, 2022