Vile Creature is a Canadian sludge/doom metal band from Hamilton, Ontario.Bradley Zorgdrager, "'It's Metal to Care': Hamilton's Vile Creature Are Bringing Radical Compassion to Heavy Music". Exclaim!, September 30, 2020. 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.Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
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.Luke Morton, "Vile Creature: 'The most metal thing that you can do is care about other people'". Kerrang!, July 20, 2020. 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.
The duo released their first album, A Steady Descent Into the Soil, in 2015, and followed up with the EP A Pessimistic Doomsayer in 2017Philip Montoro, "Queer doom duo Vile Creature don’t have time for ‘melted dickwads’". Chicago Reader, June 15, 2017. and the album Cast of Static and Smoke in 2018.Mark Tremblay, "Vile Creature: Cast of Static and Smoke". Exclaim!, February 27, 2018. 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.
In July 2024, Vile Creature announced that they taking an indefinite hiatus from performing live.
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)
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)
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