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Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

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Toronto’s gender-defying duo undergo a furious reawakening

Toronto in 2014, the past six years have been a fertile period of outspoken personal, political and musical evolution for experimental sludge duo Vile Creature. The self-identified ‘angry, queer, gloom cult’ are outspoken champions of LGBTQ+ and animal rights. Drummer/vocalist and 2018’s – an ambitious concept album detailing five cyborgs’ struggles with self-perception. The stark, arresting nature of its vitriolic rage and sludge metal bloodletting was so ponderous it was difficult to wade through. Alongside these first, rough-hewn forays the duo went into business with a popular vegan food truck and in 2016 got married in celebration of what has become a most fruitful union.

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