Chat Pile

Iowa has Slipknot, and Oklahoma’s got Chat Pile. The state is the band’s fifth, unofficial member. It’s at once a blessing and a curse. Oklahoma’s home to menacing heaps of toxic waste deposited by zinc and lead mines, known as chat piles, from which the band gets their name. It’s plagued by rabid conservatism, homelessness, and violence. But it’s also where four guys in their thirties and forties who’d grown up listening to Dead Kennedys, Helmet, Jesus Lizard, and Korn managed to break out onto the local scene with a sound unlike anything they’d heard before. When they founded the band, its members were just out to have fun and vent about everything that made them angry. They came up with stage names so their bosses wouldn’t know what they did in their free time – at least for a while. After their debut God’s Country made it onto Rolling Stone and SPIN’s year-end lists, Chat Pile got onto their sludge steamroller and set out to conquer other states and the world. Don’t miss this show at the OFF Festival!