Sunday, 5 October 2003 - 5:26 PM CDT

Sorry, but Hell on Earth DOES exist. They played here in Chicago at the first Expo of the Extreme (I believe it was in 1997 or 1998, I can't recall exactly). Billy is a good friend of my friend Shane Bugbee, who organized both Expos of the Extreme in Chicago.

The ISP/Webhost fiasco is because the band's website was moved from their original host to Shane Bugbee's host (candidhosting) into a subfolder of his webspace for evilnow.com when their site was taken down. Since then Shane's site, evilnow.com, has also been hit and is temporarily down right now as well, but we're hoping to restore BOTH websites sometime today.

Shane conducted multiple interviews with Billy (whom he has known for over five years) througout saturday by phone, and those interviews will be aired on Shane's program "Three Ring Radio" on RadioFreeSatan.com starting on Monday.

Was the "Live Suicide" a hoax? Maybe, maybe not. I honestly do not know. However, I can assure you that the band Hell on Earth DOES exist, and has for AT LEAST five or six years now.

Sunday, 5 October 2003 - 5:44 PM CDT

Hell on Earth DOES exist. They played here in Chicago at the first Expo of the Extreme (I believe it was in 1997). My friend Shane Bugbee (of evilnow.com) has been friends with Billy from Hell on Earth for over five years now.

Your "evidence":

"Amazon.com lists two albums for Hell On Earth, but neither of those albums show up in the CDDB (gracenote database)"

Running an internet radio station, we receive CDs from bands all the time. MANY of them are not in the CDDB. Usually we add them to the CDDB ourselves for them (they did send us a free CD after all, and it just takes clicking a box in our MP3 ripper program). You'd be surprised how many unsigned and indie bands and labels don't even know about the CDDB, much less have them listed in it.

"Both songs could easily have been done by one person with a Synthasizer."

That describes Nine Inch Nails' first album to a "T". In fact, for the first album Nine Inch Nails WAS just one person with a synthesizer. No one is arguing that NIN doesn't exist.

"You can find no pictures of the band leader BillY Tourlet on the internet other then in recent news articles."

The Hell on Earth website had some photos on it until it was taken down on Friday. Photos of the entire band were up as late as Thursday night when I first looked at the site this week.

"Those people giving good reviews to Hell On Earth's Cds inevitably reviewed both CDs, and those two CDs were also the only reviews they have ever written on Amazon.com (That's a pretty big coincidence),"

Which means it's probably members of the band in cognito reviewing their own CDs to get people to buy them. No one ever said they were a SUCCESSFUL band.

"The ISP that hosts Hell On Earth site is not mentioned (it is just reffered to as a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the site.), but the operator, Jason Trindade, is mentioned by name. I have been able to track the site http://www.hellonearth.net to candidhosting.com or pimpshost.com but can not find Jason Trindade mentioned at either host. "

I am not sure which ISP Mr. Trindade works for, Hell on Earth's original webhost, or candidhosting.com. I DO know their website was switched to candidhosting.com (as a subfolder of Shane Bugbee's evilnow.com website, which is hosted by candidhosting which is the same company as pimpshost).

"Even if the CDs are real this band is not! "

I saw them play on a stage in Chicago's Riveria. That's pretty real.

Sunday, 5 October 2003 - 7:50 PM CDT

Since you have had something to do with the band and know all about their website situation, etc, you are hardly an unconcerned third party. Maybe they do exist... but until I see proof, I remain a sceptic. If it is a prank, it's pretty clever... if not, it's pretty sad.

Your own site looks like a vaudville style show to me and I am not entirely convinced your not just in on the prank. You'll have to forgive me for being cynical after the all the laughs I had surfing through your RadioFreeSatan.com and related sites.

I am amazed they could ever afford to tour outside of Florida, what with some promoters saying the concert that was cancelled had only sold about 8 tickets.

But, I could be wrong :) I probablly am in fact, but I need more proof before I believe.