Mitch Lucker obit

 

SUICIDE SILENCE Singer Dies In Motorcycle Accident

He was not on the list.

Mitch Lucker, singer for the Southern California heavy metal band Suicide Silence, died Thursday morning, Nov. 1, after being in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night.

The Orange County coroner's office said Lucker was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. Thursday at UCI Medical Center in Orange County.

Lucker, who lives in Huntington Beach crashed his motorcycle shortly after 9pm last night and was admitted to the hospital. Mitch died a few hours later, at 6:30am on Thursday morning, from the injuries.

The LA Times reports Mitch struck a light pole near the intersection of Main and 13th streets and was thrown from his 2013 Harley Davidson.

Mitch leaves behind a daughter, Kenadee Lucker.

Three days before the accident, a fan of Suicide Silence snapped the following picture of Mitch on his bike cruising down the freeway.

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. 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.