Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe has hit back at the Westboro Baptist Church, confronting the controversial organisation with kazoos.

Ask anyone, and they’ll likely tell you that the kazoo is one of the most annoying instruments out there. Thanks to its incessant buzzing and almost non-existent learning curve, it makes sense that is has been dubbed the perfect instrument for fighting back against hatred.

Over the weekend, it was revealed that Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe was planning to fight back against the Westboro Baptist Church, who in turn were planning to protest US politician Danica Roem.

Roem, who was also the vocalist of death metal act Cab Ride Home, made history back in 2018, becoming the first openly transgender delegate in any US state legislature.

Taking to Instagram, Blythe called upon “freaks, weirdos, misfits, & regular people of good conscious” to join him in a “counter-party” against the controversial church on Monday morning.

Noting that a counter-protest “would entail arguing with these idiots (which is useless)”, Blythe explained that he would be “bringing 100 kazoos” so that he and others can “play the ‘Benny Hill’ & ‘Sanford & Sons [sic]’ theme songs” as a way to “drown them out with cheap buzzing plastic noise makers.”

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While the Westboro Baptist Church, who are known for picketing military funerals, Fall Out Boy concerts, and for speaking out against LGBTQI+ rights, responded to Randy Blythe’s post, they noted they would use this counter-party as a “backdrop to sing ‘Oh Lamb of God’ parody & preach the gospel of Jesus Christ against greed-fueled perversion.”

Now as Consequence Of Sound reports, Blythe’s counter-party has taken place, with the metal vocalist bringing hordes of like-minded individuals together in the state of Virginia to speak out against the WBC.

Wearing a cowboy hate and draped in feather boa, Blythe and his fellow counter-partiers appeared to outnumber the Westboro Baptist Church as they played the kazoo, drummed, whistled, and altogether attempted to drown out the message of the controversial religious group.

As Brooklyn Vegan notes, director Dan Argott filmed the event, though no footage has surfaced as yet. Thankfully, a number of attendees filmed the event for social media, which can be seen below.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that the Westboro Baptist Church have been thwarted, with the Foo Fighters managing to rickroll the group back in 2015 following a similar event back in 2011.

Check out Randy Blythe’s Westboro Baptist Church counter-party:

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