Death trap: why a metal band are suffocating in a box as art

A death-metal band risking suffocation in an otherwise bland family friendly festival is not experimental, but sucking the life out of art

In João Onofre's latest artwork, Box Sized Die featuring Unfathomable Ruination, the death metal band get inside a steel cube. It is sealed shut, and they play until the oxygen runs out.

The band is then released, but clearly this work of art flirts with the possibility of death by suffocation. Well, they do play "unrelenting brutal death metal" according to their website. I suppose they are just putting their beliefs into practice.

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