Sanguisugabogg Provoke Sturdy Reactions With Their Controversial New Tremendous Mario-Impressed ‘Free Luigi’ Shirt

Dying metallic and controversy have lengthy loved one another’s firm. Be it by means of jarring, boundary pushing lyrical content material or grotesque visible imagery, the style and its many outrageously named artists have lengthy been intent on offending the lots.

Whereas that sense of concern and shock might have abated because the style grew in dimension and the web as a complete desensitized us to much more chilling horrors every day, Columbus, Ohio outfit Sanguisugabogg have got down to push the needle as soon as once more with a really topical new merch merchandise.

In allusion to the latest assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the the person arrested and charged with murdering him, Luigi Mangione, Sanguisugabogg have introduced the restricted launch of a brand new shirt that can doubtless not solely rile up the lots, but additionally the notoriously litigious Nintendo as effectively.

The shirt depicts a hooded Luigi from the favored Tremendous Mario Bros. franchise firing bullets right into a freshly assassinated Bowser — aka the primary villain within the long-running aforementioned online game, and so on. collection. The phrase ‘Free Luigi’ is emblazoned atop the shirt, which will be pre-ordered by means of deadassshirts.com.

That shirt’s reveal follows the under photoshopped image and story the band posted on their social media earlier in the present day, December eleventh:

Since posting the shirt this afternoon, the band have additionally engaged in a number of conversations relating to it, together with the next exchanges: