Today Vile Creature premiered the new video for the title track to their upcoming LP Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! due out June 19th via Prosthetic Records. “Glory, Glory!” and “Apathy Took Helm” are actually the album’s two closers, and here they receive a psychedelic, fourteen-minute video treatment from Andrew Notsch.
The first half of the song finds Vile Creature joined by vocalist Laurel Minnes and her choir, Minuscule, with additional instrumentation from Bismuth’s Tanya Byrne. The result has an exalted and gothic vibe bringing to mind the liturgical experiments of Lingua Ignota’s Kristin Hayter. However, with “Apathy Took Helm,” the band shifts gears to issue forth a furious, doom-laden onslaught against apathy and its stultifying results.
Discussing the track, the duo’s KW explains:
“This song is the most cathartic, personally satisfying song I have ever written from start to finish, it honestly feels like the song we were meant to put out there. The first half was co-written with Laurel Minnes, a phenomenal vocalist and musician who we worked with on our EP A Pessimistic Doomsayer. Laurel, along with her band Minuscule, which comprises a full choir, made our grandiose idea a reality. Tanya Byrne of Bismuth also contributed the perfect companion instrumentation to the first half in her piano and organ, really pushing the whole song with forward momentum towards its latter half. We could not be more proud of this title track.”
You can find “Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm!” on the VHS version of Vile Creature’s upcoming effort. This version includes visuals for every track on the album as well as the full video for “You Who Has Never Slept.”
