Chat Pile Announce New Album Who Loves the Sun, Share “Deep Blue” Video

Chat Pile are back with a new album on the way. The Oklahoma City noise-rock band have announced Who Loves the Sun, their third full-length album, arriving September 4 via The Flenser.

Alongside the announcement, the band have shared the record’s first single, “Deep Blue,” a menacing new track that sets the tone for what looks to be another bleak, confrontational and deeply human chapter from one of heavy music’s most compelling underground acts.

Since forming just over six years ago, Chat Pile have grown from a local Oklahoma City project into one of the defining heavy bands of the 2020s underground. The lineup of Ray B. on vocals, L. Manhole on guitar, Stin on bass and Cap’n Ron on drums has built a sound that pulls from noise rock, sludge, post-hardcore and industrial dread, but the real weight comes from the band’s ability to turn modern anxiety into something raw and physical.

Who Loves the Sun continues that trajectory. Where God’s Country captured a specifically American sense of decay and Cool World widened the lens toward global violence and systemic collapse, the new album looks at the exhaustion of living through the current century. The record takes on technology, climate change, power, money, alienation and the challenge of staying human in a world that often feels designed to grind people down.

“Deep Blue” was the first song written for the album, according to the band, and helped shape the direction of the full record. The track leans into Chat Pile’s familiar ugliness while also showing how the group is pushing its songwriting forward. This time, the band approached the material with more emphasis on hooks, drawing from pre-2000s indie rock, alternative rock and new wave while keeping their sound aggressive and confrontational.

That tension is part of what makes Chat Pile so effective. The band’s music is punishing, but it is not empty shock value. Their songs often feel like dispatches from the edge of burnout, full of characters, systems and landscapes falling apart in real time. On Who Loves the Sun, Oklahoma City once again hangs over the music, with the album art reflecting the city’s contradictions through an image of Devon Tower rising above a burnt-out foreground.

Chat Pile will support the album with a packed run of international dates. The band heads through Australia and New Zealand in June before hitting Europe and the UK in August. A North American headline tour follows in September, October and November, including stops at Riot Fest, San Diego’s Music Box, Los Angeles’ Belasco, Brooklyn Steel, Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, Washington, DC’s Black Cat, Atlanta’s Masquerade and more.

Who Loves the Sun arrives September 4 via The Flenser. Watch the video for “Deep Blue” now and catch Chat Pile on the road this year.

Who Loves the Sun Tracklist

1. Creature
2. Deep Blue
3. Same Rules
4. PEN I S MALL
5. Shrine
6. Intruder
7. Christabel ’26
8. Influence
9. Family Funeral
10. October All the Time