Mitch Lucker

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.

Mitch Lucker died on November 1, 2012 at precisely 6:17 in the morning in Huntington Beach, CA. It was announced by Orange County Coroners Office that he had suffered severe injuries incurred from a motorcycle accident. One report stated that Lucker crashed his motorcycle shortly after 9 p.m. on October 31.

His Suicide Silence bandmates held a memorial show titled "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 him.

The debut album of Suicide Silence, titled The Cleansing, was one of the biggest-selling Century Media releases with 7,250 copies sold in the first week. Their second album No Time to Bleed was released on June 30, 2009. The band's last album to feature Lucker, The Black Crown was released on July 12, 2011. When asked by Kerrang!, Lucker explained:

Lucker's signature black bars that he had on each of his fingers were cover-ups. The original tattoos he had displayed across his fingers was "FORXEVER", a common word used within the straight edge community. Lucker had these tattoos covered with the black bars after he renounced his straight-edge lifestyle in 2007.

Mitchell Adam "Mitch" Lucker (October 20, 1984 – November 1, 2012) was an American vocalist and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist for the American deathcore band Suicide Silence.