Chat Pile

Chat Pile is an American noise rock and sludge metal band from Oklahoma City, and this Leeds date at PROJECT HOUSE brings the group's heavy, abrasive guitar music to the city.

Chat Pile formed in Oklahoma City in 2019 and signed to the label The Flenser. Their debut album, God's Country, appeared in 2022, followed by Cool World. The current line-up is Ray B. on vocals, L. Manhole on guitar, Stin on bass and Cap'n Ron on drums.

Their third full-length album, Who Loves The Sun, takes aim at collective indifference in the twenty-first century. Its lyrics move through images of coastlines swallowing cities, unrewarding jobs and a culture increasingly governed by algorithms. Oklahoma City recurs throughout, with its isolation, economic contradictions and sense of decay woven into the record. The album keeps the confrontational intensity of the band's earlier releases, but its songwriting leans on hooks, drawing on the melodic side of pre-2000s indie rock, alternative rock and new wave.

PROJECT HOUSE is a Leeds venue that hosts concerts and shows. The night will suit listeners drawn to crushing, cathartic noise rock and to the band's bleak, politically charged lyrical focus.