Mitch Lucker

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/6487290-Dying-Dreams|title=Dying Dreams|website=Discogs}} 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} 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."Kerrang!>{{cite web|url=http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2011/04/suicide_silence_get_personal_o.html|title= Suicide Silence gets Personal on The Black Crown|author=Simon|date=April 5, 2011|publisher=Kerrang|access-date=April 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410005619/http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2011/04/suicide_silence_get_personal_o.html |archive-date=April 10, 2011}}

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."{{cite web|url=http://www.theaureview.com/interviews/the-au-interview-mitch-lucker-of-suicide-silence-usa|title=the AU interview: Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence (USA) | the AU ...|date=November 20, 2010|publisher=The AU Review|access-date=November 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211042716/http://www.theaureview.com/interviews/the-au-interview-mitch-lucker-of-suicide-silence-usa|archive-date=December 11, 2015|url-status=dead}}

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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."{{Cite web|url=http://noisecreep.com/suicide-silences-mitch-lucker-on-tattoos-and-dirty-handshakes/|title=Suicide Silence's Mitch Lucker on Tattoos and Dirty Handshakes|date=June 16, 2009 }}

On October 31, 2012, Lucker’s wife came home and found two empty cans of alcohol. She had told Lucker to not drink around his daughter and begged him not to go out. [http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/3888/26580/SUICIDE-SILENCE-Singer-Dies-In-Motorcycle-Accident SUICIDE SILENCE Singer Dies In Motorcycle Accident – The Gauntlet News]. Thegauntlet.com (November 1, 2012). Retrieved on November 13, 2012.Lucker decided to hop on his motorcycle and left the house.

Around 8:55PM, Lucker hit a light pole, flinging him from his bike, and his motorcycle kept going down the street, striking a Nissan pick-up truck. Lucker had sustained serious injuries, and was taken to local hospital, where doctors performed surgery on him for 8 hours.

On November 1, 2012, Lucker was pronounced dead at 6:13AM.{{cite press release |title=Fatal Traffic Collision |url=http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/government/departments/pd/news/Main-%26-13th-street---Fatal-collision.pdf |publisher=Huntington Beach Police Department |date=November 1, 2012 |access-date=November 1, 2012 |archive-date=December 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211013252/http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/government/departments/pd/news/Main-%26-13th-street---Fatal-collision.pdf |url-status=dead }}He was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.{{cite news |last1=Childers |first1=Chad |title=Suicide Silence Singer's Wife Reveals He Drank Alcohol Before Fatal Motorcycle Crash |url=https://loudwire.com/suicide-silence-singer-wife-reveals-he-drank-alcohol-before-motorcycle-crash/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=Loudwire |date=2 November 2012 |language=en}} Local police stated that Lucker died from motorcycle crash. He was buried at Harbor Lawn-Mount Olive Memorial Park in Costa Mesa, California.

Just after a month since his death, his Suicide Silence bandmates held a memorial show, "Ending Is the Beginning", 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=86122 |title=Suicide Silence Sets Up Donation Fund – in Metal News |publisher=Metal Underground.com |access-date=August 24, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/suicide-silence-launch-official-mitch-lucker-memorial-fund |title=SUICIDE SILENCE Launch Official Mitch Lucker Memorial Fund – Metal Injection | Latest News |publisher=Metal Injection |date=November 6, 2012 |access-date=August 24, 2013}}

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With Suicide Silence

• Suicide Silence (2005)
• The Cleansing (2007)
• No Time to Bleed (2009)
• The Black Crown (2011)
• You Can't Stop Me (2014) (writing credits on two tracks){{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/suicide-silence-to-release-you-cant-stop-me-album-in-july/|title=SUICIDE SILENCE To Release 'You Can't Stop Me' Album In July|date=April 22, 2014|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=May 7, 2014}}

With Dying Dreams

• Demo (2003)

With Commissioner

• What Is? (2011)

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