It’s looking more and more like the rock band Hell on Earth’s claim that they would feature a suicide of a terminally ill person at a concert and broadcast it over the Internet was a hoax.
The only thing clear at this point is that the webcast of the a suicide did not take place, because the site was attacked and/or overwhelmed by traffic. (The site was reportedly being bombarded with 800 hits per second, which suggests a lot of people are comfortable watching that kind of thing.)
As for the other details, there’s been conflicting reports as to whether or not:
there was an actual concert on Saturday;
there was a suicide Saturday in conjunction with the concert; and
if there will be another concert next week, possibly including a suicide.
This confusion casts suspicion on the story. The entire episode smells of a ploy to generate media buzz.
Billy Tourtelot, the group’s leader, claimed that the suicide had been planned in accordance with the victim’s wishes to promote the cause of assisted suicide. A public spectacle like this would have done just the opposite. So hopefully this whole thing was just a bluff.