UK Death Metal band Unfathomable Ruination have been causing a fuss in the news recently with an art project they’re getting into, quite literally. The project, ‘Boxed Sized Die’, currated by Portuguese artist João Onofre, see’s the band loading themselves and their drums, amps, guitars and PA system into an air-tight box to play vein-bursting Death Metal until their oxygen supply runs out.
The London based band will be climbing inside the box, located outside the Gherkin, at 6pm every Wednesday to Friday until August 1st. Is this genius or plain sick? Whatever your stance, the suits of the city are in for a shock.
The box is completely soundproofed, air-tight and opaque meaning spectators (can we really use the term ‘fans’ here?) can neither see nor hear the band play, just witness the box vibrate in time with the blast beats and pig squeals.
Fortunately, the box does open from the inside too.