Florida shock-rockers HELL ON EARTH have vowed to go ahead with their plans to stage a live suicide during a concert in the city of St. Petersburg next month.

Despite the fact that the city officials, in cooperation with the Florida Governors Office, have "strong-armed" venues into canceling their previously announced performance at State Theater on October 4, bandleader Billy Tourtelot has announced that the show will indeed take place at an undisclosed location within St. Petersburg city limits. The concert, which will include a live suicide by a terminally ill Euthanasia Society member, will be broadcast live over the Internet on www.hellonearth.net.

Commented the singer, "This show is far more than a typical HELL ON EARTH performance — this is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide. This performance will go on in its entirety and it will [take place] in St. Petersburg on October 4th."

The Tampa group said last week on their web site that a terminally ill member of a right-to-die group planned to commit suicide on stage in a political statement about euthanasia. St. Petersburg police, unable to do anything before the performance, had planned to have officers in the audience if a suicide was attempted.

Past band performances have included sodomizing skinned calves and blending dead rats then having fans drink the concoction.

*gimick*
put these guys on the list of "band that I don't want to see"
having some cancer patient od on stage = a dumb idea

hell on gimick, if you read this, have band members comit suicide and then you might get a darwin award.. hell, I'd vote for you

yeah, they were supposed to do this weeks ago.

I say, if anyone really, truly wants to kill themselves then go for it. You don't deserve to be alive if you hate the fact that you are. Besides, this world is overpopulated anyways, maybe the entire crowd will follow and there would we'd be 1 less crowd of retards in this country.

I second that.

I've been expecting something like this for years, it's one of the only extremes left, at least that I can think of.

didn't gg allin want to do that?

These guys are ass-clowns....wanna be rock-stars. "Ooh lets see how "totally X-treme to the MAX that we can be!!!!!"
These fuckin dickheads are a waste of my fuckin' air, and a waste of good skin that people with psoriasis could desperately use.
I hope that they just all die before the show and we can be spared their "attention getting" nonsensical bullshit.


Hell on Earth
"Eat a bag of fucking AIDS" -Tom (Rusted Angel)
I had to quote the little shit......it was a funny retort at the time.

Oh and Tom..........By the way......If I haven't told you lately..........Yer still an asswipe....but at least yer a funny asswipe.

dood, i will shit all over your face.

gg alien DID do it.
you spend the last hours of your life covered in shit, jumping out of the bushes in nyc and see how you are remembered

Hahahahahaha....dude if you do...lets put it in my "Poop and other stimulating bodily functions" thread.
That would rule...but only after I clean your skinny dump offa my scalp.

that is the best thing ever. i'd go to shows more often if i saw stupid fucking douche bags killing themselves.

attendmyrequiem said:

It's obvious to us that you don't support the metal scene without needing some hokey attention getting plot to lure you in. Get in line with the rest of the sheep, dickhead. Baaaaaa baaaaaa baaaaaaa.

ohhh they are so like, cool...

Band Vows to Defy Assisted Suicide Law
Mon Sep 29, 8:55 PM ET

By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer

TAMPA, Fla. - The leader of the rock band Hell on Earth said Monday that an onstage suicide will be conducted during a private St. Petersburg concert this weekend in defiance of a new city law designed to stop the act.



"The show will go on," Billy Tourtelot said. "It will be available on the Internet and it will be in the city limits (of St. Petersburg)."


Earlier Monday, the St. Petersburg city council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance that makes it illegal to conduct a suicide for commercial or entertainment purposes, and to host, promote and sell tickets for such an event.


"While I still think it's a publicity stunt, we still couldn't sit idly by and let somebody lose their life," council member Bill Foster said.


Circuit Judge John C. Lenderman of St. Petersburg granted the city a temporary injunction against the band Monday, preventing them from advertising the show and allowing the suicide. The judge scheduled a hearing in the case Thursday.


The Tampa-based band, known for such outrageous onstage stunts as chocolate syrup wrestling and grinding up live rats in a blender, first created the furor by announcing earlier this month that the suicide would happen during a show at the State Theater in downtown St. Petersburg.


But the theater's owner promptly canceled the band's appearance, and another venue also turned away the event.


Now Tourtelot, 33, said the suicide show will be played before a "select few people" at an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg on Saturday and be shown live on the band's Web site. He would not disclose any details about the terminally ill person or say how the person planned to kill himself.


He said the point is to raise awareness that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized in Florida.


Tourtelot said he is not worried about the legal ramifications. Violating the new city ordinance is punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. A Florida law already makes it manslaughter, a felony, to assist in a suicide. But Tourtelot insists the band is not assisting the act.


"This person will be doing this self-deliverance totally by themselves, on their own accord," he said.


as they say in boston wicked gay .... gimmick indeed....LAME

a video's out from this show on http://www.ogrish.com
http://movies.ogrish.com/hellonearth/hellonearth.wmv
it shows nothing.

Haha, that is pretty good.