Mitch Lucker
Lucker performing withSuicide Silence in 2011
Background information
Birth name	Mitchell Adam Lucker
Born	(1984-10-20)October 20, 1984 Riverside, California, U.S.
Died	November 1, 2012(2012-11-01) (aged 28) Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
Genres	Deathcore
Occupations	Singer songwriter
Years active	2000–2012
Labels	Nuclear Blast Century Media
Formerly of	Suicide Silence Commissioner

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

Mitch Lucker first started performing music in the year 2000 with the band Breakaway, which would later become theCorona 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 intoSuicide 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]} Their second albumNo 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 byKerrang!, 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 withThe 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]

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 Lucker’s wife begged him not to go out.^[6]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 the hospital. Doctors performed surgery on him for 8 hours.

On November 1, 2012, Lucker was pronounced dead at 6:13AM.^[7]He wasunder the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.^[8] 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 theFox Theater inPomona, 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

• 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)^[11]

With Dying Dreams

• Demo (2003)

With Commissioner

• What Is? (2011)

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• 21st-century American male singers

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