Vile Creature

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]

Vile Creature
Origin	Hamilton, Ontario
Genres	sludge metal drone metal doom metal
Years active	2014–present
Labels	Perpetual Flame Ministries (2022-present) Prosthetic Records (2014-2022)
Members	Vic KW Campol
Website	vilecreature.net

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)