Update: Both the concert and the assisted suicide have been postponed one week.

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Hell on Earth, the band planning on featuring a live assisted suicide tonight at its concert said the threat of criminal charges will not deter it. The show will go on as planned.

The assisted suicide is scheduled to be simulcast on the band's website, hellonearth.net. We haven't been able to access the site this afternoon, so we suspect the police forced the site's hosting company to block access to it or remove it.

Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the band's Web site, said he would continue serving the site and carry the concert until he receives complaints from law enforcement officials to shut it down. "They haven't broken any law and I can't just turn them off," he said. "Myself, I think it's pretty twisted."

The band is proceeding against the advice of its legal counsel. We'd point out that Jack Kevorkian was denied early release this week.

Kevorkian, 75, was sentenced to 10 to 25 years after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk, 52, who had Lou Gehrig's disease. Kevorkian is eligible for parole in 2007....Kevorkian has said he assisted in at least 130 deaths. Michigan banned assisted suicide in 1998 to stop Kevorkian from helping terminally ill people die.

We hope the band reconsiders and follows its lawyer's advice.