Vile Creature
Canadian metal band
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Vile Creature are a Canadian heavy metal band from Hamilton, Ontario.[1] They are most noted for their 2020 album Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!, which received a Juno Award nomination for Heavy Metal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021.[2]
- Perpetual Flame Ministries (2022-present)
- Prosthetic Records (2014-2022)
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| Origin | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
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| Website | vilecreature |
The band consists of guitarist and vocalist KW Campol and drummer and vocalist Vic, a couple who both identify as queer and make music from a progressive activist perspective.[3] In addition to their musical career, they operate the Coven Plant Based Marketplace, a vegan food store in Hamilton, and KW is part owner of a tattoo shop, Sleepy Bones.[1]
The duo released their first album, A Steady Descent Into the Soil, in 2015, and followed up with the EP A Pessimistic Doomsayer in 2017[4] and the album Cast of Static and Smoke in 2018.[5] In 2019, after signing to Prosthetic Records, they released Preservation Rituals (2015-2018), a compilation album which combined all three of the earlier releases.
In 2022, Campol co-founded the Perpetual Flame Ministries record label alongside American musician Kristin Hayter.[6]
Personnel
- Members
- Vic – drums, vocals
- KW Campol – guitar, vocals, drums
Discography
- Studio albums
- A Steady Descent into the Soil (2015)
- Cast of Static and Smoke (2018)
- Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! (2020)
- A Hymn of Loss and Hope (collaboration with Bismuth) (2022)[7]
- Singles
- Harbinger Of Nothing (Metal Swim 2 Compilation) (2019)
- In Tenebris Lux (with Bismuth) (2020)
- Paperdoll (Kittie cover, Send the Pain Below compilation) (2021)
- EPs
- A Pessimistic Doomsayer (2016)
- Compilations
- Preservation Rituals (2015-2018) (2019)
