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]
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| Origin | Hamilton, Ontario |
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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
edit- Members
- Vic – drums, vocals
- KW Campol – guitar, vocals, drums
Discography
edit- 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)
References
edit- ^ a b Bradley Zorgdrager, "'It's Metal to Care': Hamilton's Vile Creature Are Bringing Radical Compassion to Heavy Music". Exclaim!, September 30, 2020.
- ^ Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
- ^ Luke Morton, "Vile Creature: 'The most metal thing that you can do is care about other people'". Kerrang!, July 20, 2020.
- ^ Philip Montoro, "Queer doom duo Vile Creature don’t have time for ‘melted dickwads’". Chicago Reader, June 15, 2017.
- ^ Mark Tremblay, "Vile Creature: Cast of Static and Smoke". Exclaim!, February 27, 2018.
- ^ "Lingua Ignota and Vile Creature's KW Campol Launch Chicago Arts Festival". Pitchfork. December 6, 2022. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ^ "Vile Creature & Bismuth (2) – A Hymn Of Loss And Hope". Discogs. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
External links
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