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

Dying steel 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 plenty.

Whereas that sense of concern and shock could have abated because the style grew in measurement and the web as a complete desensitized us to way more chilling horrors each 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 may seemingly not solely rile up the plenty, but in addition the notoriously litigious Nintendo as properly.

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

That shirt’s reveal follows the beneath photoshopped image and story the band posted on their social media earlier immediately, 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: