Did the ‘Hell on Earth’ suicide come off as promised? The original plan was for a man with a terminal disease to commmit suicide onstage during the metal rockers’ Saturday evening concert in St. Petersburg. To avoid threatened interference by authorities, that plan was altered several weeks ago with the suicide to take place at a separate, undisclosed location and to be broadcast live on the web in conjunction with the band’s performance. But the website’s host shut it down before show time, supposedly because of the number of hits the site was getting. Now the band’s front man is noncommittal about whether the suicide actually occurred as planned, but a radio host who had been following the band in the leadup to the ‘event’ says he has been given a videotape of ‘something that looked crazy’ and appeared to show a man commmitting suicide. Yet the county’s emergency dispatchers and medical examiner’s office said there had been no calls about a suicide as of Sunday afternoon. —St Petersburg Times
