Vile Creature are a

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heavy metal band from

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"'It's Metal to Care': Hamilton's Vile Creature Are Bringing Radical Compassion to Heavy Music"
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'', September 30, 2020. They are most noted for their 2020 album ''Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!'', which received a

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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

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and make music from a progressive activist perspective. In addition to their musical career, they operate the Coven Plant Based Marketplace, a

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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

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, 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.

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 Kittie is a Canadian heavy metal music, heavy metal band from London, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 by guitarist Fallon Bowman and drummer Mercedes Lander, with guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander and bassist Tanya Candler joining the ...

cover, Send the Pain Below compilation) (2021) ;EPs * ''A Pessimistic Doomsayer'' (2016) ;Compilations * ''Preservation Rituals (2015-2018)'' (2019)

References

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