Vile Creature

{{Short description|Canadian metal band}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| origin = Hamilton, Ontario

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• sludge metal
• drone metal
• doom metal

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| years_active = 2014–present

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• Perpetual Flame Ministries (2022-present)
• Prosthetic Records (2014-2022)

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| website = {{URL|vilecreature.net/}}

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• Vic
• KW Campol

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Vile Creature are a Canadian heavy metal band from Hamilton, Ontario.Bradley Zorgdrager, [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/its_metal_to_care_hamiltons_vile_creature_are_bringing_radical_compassion_to_heavy_music "'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, [https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/the-weeknd-jp-saxe-jessie-reyez-and-justin-bieber-lead-2021-juno-award-nominations-1.5940551 "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, [https://www.kerrang.com/features/vile-creature-the-most-metal-thing-that-you-can-do-is-to-care-about-other-people/ "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, [https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2017/06/15/queer-doom-duo-vile-creature-dont-have-time-for-melted-dickwads "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, [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/vile_creature-cast_of_static_and_smoke "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.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-06 |title=Lingua Ignota and Vile Creature's KW Campol Launch Chicago Arts Festival |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lingua-ignota-and-vile-creature-kw-campol-launch-chicago-arts-festival/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}