Vile Creature is a Canadian sludge/doom metal band from Hamilton, Ontario. 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.
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. 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 2017 and the album Cast of Static and Smoke in 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.
Contents
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)