After infamously being abandoned at a New York ice cream shop by his bandmates mid-tour last month following a cocaine-fueled blowout, Vitriol frontman Kyle Rasmussen claimed to have reinvented himself online as the villain ‘Preta‘.
In light of his bandmates staging the aforementioned mass exodus from the group and publicly condemning him for his aggressive behavior prior, Rasmussen turned to crowdfunding so he, his girlfriend and their dog could get back home to Oregon. The couple raised nearly $11,000 via that campaign.
Since then, Rasmussen has posted on social media about his apparent ‘detestable metamorphosis’, stating on November 28th:
“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!!!”
Despite the clear signs of satirical undertones in that post, some have taken it to be the byproduct of a potential meltdown. Regardless, it would appear that the ‘Preta‘ concept is at least mostly tongue in cheek. When asked by a fan in the comments of that if Preta still does ‘nose beers’ — a term Rasmussen used to describe cocaine in a previous statement — Rasmussen replied, “Preta doesn’t waste time with such cowardly intoxicants. He grinds up Pervitin tablets and sprinkles them into his eyes.”
When another fan said “please seek therapy my dude”, Rasmussen replied:
“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.”
When another user asked directly on social media if the manifesto laid out above was a “sh*tpost”, Rasmussen replied, “There’s a Garbage song and a Beavis and Butthead reference.”
