| Mitch Lucker | |
| Birth Name: | Mitchell Adam Lucker |
| Birth Date: | 20 October 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Huntington Beach, California, U.S. |
| Genre: | Deathcore |
| Years Active: | 2000–2012 |
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
With Suicide Silence
With Dying Dreams
With Commissioner
| Year | Song | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | "Predator; Never Prey" (feat. Mitch Lucker) | The Dead Walk | The Acacia Strain |
| 2009 | "Classic Struggle" (feat. Mitch Lucker) | The Great Stone War | Winds of Plague |
| 2011 | "The Sinatra" (feat. Mitch Lucker) | My My Misfire EP | My My Misfire |
| 2012 | "We Are the Many" (feat. Mitch Lucker, Marcus Bischoff & Benny Richter) | I Am Nemesis | Caliban |
| "Spit Vitriol" (feat. Mitch Lucker) | The Devil's Messenger | The Devastated |