Photo by Will Mecca

If there is a band who knows how to communicate the terror that is the heart of America better than most, then it would be Chat Pile who dialed up the national nihilism into breakthrough noise with this year’s debut album, God’s Country. For this reason, tapping the Oklahoma City band for the film score of Tenkiller, a movie about a grief-stricken 18-year-old machinist struggling with the split of his parents and “the violent way of life surrounding him”, is ideal. On the score’s title track, the band cultivate familiar ground with a heavy muck and pure despair begging for higher power intervention, whereas the country-fried trolling “Lake Time (Mr. Rodan)” imagines a deep backwoods surrounding as pure hell on an escapeless fishing boat. Move on over, holy spirit. This is Chat Pile land now.

Chat Pile’s Tenkiller will be released November 18th on the Flenser.