10 Heavy Metal Bands Genuinely Progressing The Genre
2. Vile Creature
Whilst the sounds that a band create can earn them the term ‘progressive’, sometimes they can instead present their music in a traditional way and progress the genre through the very nature of their being. Enter Vile Creature.
Although the glam rock days of loudly professing how heterosexual you are have thankfully long since passed, it’s still a relative oddity to find a Metal band with members who are outwardly queer.
Guitarist/vocalist KW (he/they) and vocalist/drummer Vic (they/them) have been making tar thick Doom Metal since 2014, and their ethos is both a conscious rejection of the prejudices they have experienced, as well as a desire to change the minds and hearts of those who would dismiss them.
2020 Album Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm! is a murky stew of all of their experiences, both positive and negative, and confronts their place in the world with a resolute positivity so often missing in the genre.
In a world filled with aggressively cis/straight nihilists, this self professed ‘angry, queer gloom cult’ are refusing to let apathy take helm, and endeavour to add their explosive noise to the chorus demanding change.