Mitch Lucker

Mitchell Adam Lucker (October 20, 1984 – November 1, 2012)[1] was an American musician best known as the lead vocalist for the deathcore band Suicide Silence.

Mitch Lucker
Lucker performing with Suicide Silence in 2011
Lucker performing with Suicide Silence in 2011
Background information
Birth nameMitchell Adam Lucker
Born(1984-10-20)October 20, 1984
Riverside, California, U.S.
DiedNovember 1, 2012(2012-11-01) (aged 28)
Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
GenresDeathcore, metalcore
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active2000–2012
Labels
Formerly of

Career

Mitch Lucker first started performing music in the year 2000 with the band Breakaway, which would later become the Corona local metalcore band Dying Dreams. Dying Dreams featured Lucker on vocals and his brother Cliff on guitar, along with later Suicide Silence bandmates Josh Tufano on second guitar and Mike Olheiser on bass.[2] Around a year before Dying Dreams broke up, Mitch Lucker was inducted into Suicide Silence when the band was still deemed a side-project.

Suicide Silence's debut album, The Cleansing, sold 7,250 copies in the first week. Their second album No Time to Bleed was released in June 2009. The band's last album to feature Lucker, The Black Crown was released in July 2011. When asked by Kerrang!, Lucker explained, "I'm not trying to put people's beliefs down – it's about me and my life. This is my head cracked open and poured on the paper! I still have the same beliefs and same views, but I'm more open to everything. At this point in my life, I don't see the good in making people hate you for something you say. This record is for everybody."[3]

Influences

In an interview with The AU Interview, he said the bands that influenced him into starting a band were "Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Slipknot, Sepultura, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Dio, Nirvana, Van Halen, Cannibal Corpse, Death... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this."[4]

Tattoos
Lucker performing with Suicide Silence in 2010

Lucker was casually known for his extensive and large collection of tattoos on his body covering his arms, torso, neck/throat, hands, fingers and even his face. The only place he refused to ever get tattooed was on his back. He explained this by stating "I like seeing the artwork because it is artwork! [Having my back tattooed would] be like owning an expensive painting that you can never see. Like, 'Oh, I have this beautiful, expensive painting, but you can't see it because it's at my uncle's house."[5]

Death

Mitch Lucker died on November 1, 2012, following severe injuries incurred from a motorcycle accident in Huntington Beach, California. He was pronounced dead by the Orange County Coroner's Office at 6:17 a.m. that morning. One report stated that Lucker had crashed his motorcycle shortly after 9 p.m. on October 31 and was pronounced dead on November 1, 2012.[6][7][8]

His Suicide Silence bandmates held a memorial show, "Ending Is the Beginning", on December 21, 2012, which took place at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California. It served to benefit his daughter's education costs. The band has also started the Kenadee Lucker Education Fund and continues to promote donations to her.[9][10]

Discography
Lucker with Suicide Silence, 2012

With Suicide Silence

With Dying Dreams

  • Demo (2003)

With Commissioner

  • What Is? (2011)

Collaborations
YearSongAlbumArtist
2006"Predator; Never Prey" (feat. Mitch Lucker)The Dead WalkThe Acacia Strain
2009"Classic Struggle" (feat. Mitch Lucker)The Great Stone WarWinds of Plague
2011"The Sinatra" (feat. Mitch Lucker)My My Misfire EPMy My Misfire
2012"We Are the Many" (feat. Mitch Lucker, Marcus Bischoff & Benny Richter)I Am NemesisCaliban
"Spit Vitriol" (feat. Mitch Lucker)The Devil's MessengerThe Devastated

References
  1. Moseley, Brittany (November 1, 2012). "Alternative Press | News | UPDATED: Mitch Lucker, lead singer of Suicide Silence, killed in motorbike crash". Alt Press. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  2. "Dying Dreams". Discogs.
  3. Simon (April 5, 2011). "Suicide Silence gets Personal on The Black Crown". Kerrang. Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  4. "the AU interview: Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence (USA) | the AU ..." The AU Review. November 20, 2010. Archived from the original on December 11, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  5. "Suicide Silence's Mitch Lucker on Tattoos and Dirty Handshakes". June 16, 2009.
  6. SUICIDE SILENCE Singer Dies In Motorcycle Accident – The Gauntlet News. Thegauntlet.com (November 1, 2012). Retrieved on November 13, 2012.
  7. R.I.P Suicide Silence'S Mitch Lucker Archived February 4, 2013, at archive.today. Total Uprawr (November 1, 2012). Retrieved on November 13, 2012.
  8. "Fatal Traffic Collision" (PDF) (Press release). Huntington Beach Police Department. November 1, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  9. "Suicide Silence Sets Up Donation Fund – in Metal News". Metal Underground.com. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  10. "SUICIDE SILENCE Launch Official Mitch Lucker Memorial Fund – Metal Injection | Latest News". Metal Injection. November 6, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  11. "SUICIDE SILENCE To Release 'You Can't Stop Me' Album In July". Blabbermouth.net. April 22, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
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