Metal Anarchy

As previously reported, guitarist Keith Merrow, bassist Brett Leier, and drummer Andy Vincenzetti recently exited Vitriol and abandoned vocalist Kyle Rasmussen at a gas station. Now, the frontman, who has since returned home following a crowdfunding campaign, is poking fun at the situation by satirically taking on the villainous persona of “Preta.”

Rasmussen said the following:

“After two days of violent transmutation and a collective meditation on our triumphant conquest over nature and the atavistic man, a most detestable metamorphosis has taken place. Kyle reflected and agreed that he was the problem without remedy. Kyle Rasmussen is dead. He died by his successor’s own hand. From this less evolved mortal shell, Preta has been unchained.

God mourns as this 160lb, flesh laden furnace of spite and misanthropy is loosed upon his contested arena. A vessel of rage that transcends any physical inferiorities. Preta is the fumigator of fair-weather dreamers. He is the grand serial killer of troubadours. He is the High Hurter of Feelings. He is the apex Meanie.

Preta is the problem and the solution.

He is the alpha and the omega.

He is the Beavis and the Butthead.

Preta is utterly insane, and there is no help to be offered. A tsunami need not be saved by the violence of its own wake. His reprehensibility is divine and he was born to murder the world.

It is time to make a bride of the isolation that is the wellspring of Preta‘s work. The folly of seeking community while probing into the wisdom of solitude is an error that Preta will not make. Vitriol will continue as a collaborative, as Preta seeks to arm his anti-cosmic fist of elitism and omnipotence with the infinity stones of darkness.

Soon, Preta will depart from this secular wasteland of consumerism and venture forth into a Czechian nexus of alchemical riches.

With the soul of Danzig, the mind of Brian Wilson, and the emotional awareness of Dewey Cox, Preta has been purified by the will of his own vitriol. He will hate all that you love, and in doing so, drive you further into the arms of your its light. In the lowest Earthen basement of Hell, he will wander among the formless thrones that furnish the palace of nothingness. He waits for you there, possessing the mirror to your most loathsome self, with all of the patience of the inevitable.

Being publicly evil is gonna be so much fun!!!”

He continued when asked if Preta partakes in “nose beers”:

“Preta doesn’t waste time with such cowardly intoxicants. He grinds up Pervitin tablets and sprinkles them into his eyes.”

He also added the following after another fan told him he should “seek therapy”:

“I will pause what is my strongest work of satire yet to address this real concern some well-meaning people have for me. I see a psychiatrist, a PhD psychologist for weekly therapy, I am medicated, and I have over 200 hours of meditation under my belt. It is easiest to assume that I’m making light of this situation for less than noble reasons. Some things can be approached lightly because the reality of the situation is quite light. The truth will find its way out, eventually.”

Rasmussen also responded after someone asked him straight up if it was a “shitpost”:

“There’s a Garbage song and a Beavis and Butthead reference.”

[via The PRP]