The members of the heavy metal band Vitriol all quit during a U.S. tour, reportedly leaving their lead singer behind at a gas station in Vermont.

Keith Merrow, who was the guitarist for Vitriol, announced the band’s end in a story on Instagram . He writes that singer/guitarist Kyle Rasmussen, who was one of the band’s founders, “f---ed around and found out.”

“Sorry Vitriol fans. We had to abandon him at a gas station in Vermont,” Merrow’s post says. “Myself, Andy (drummer Andy Vincenzetti), Brett (bassist Brett Leier), and Matt will not take Kyle’s cowardly and weak outbursts of misplaced anger.

“We gave everything we had and now have left you with nothing. Mass exodus. This was the darkest day of my music career to date.”

Stereogum.com reports Rasmussen later responded with a 40-m

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