Biography from Last.fm
Suicide Silence are a deathcore band from Riverside, California, United States that formed in 2002. The band has so far released three full-length albums on Century Media: The Cleansing, No Time to Bleed, and most recently The Black Crown. The band worked with renown producer Machine (Lamb of God and various other bands) who produced, mixed, engineered, and programmed No Time to Bleed.
Suicide Silence plays a style of deathcore that’s also influenced by grindcore Read more on Last.fm
With the year beginning to draw to a close, and with only a bare handful os Sundays left for 2012 Slaylists, this week we’re turning out attention to those we’ve lost in 2012. We’re talking about the bands that have either broken up or gone on hiatus, as well as the more serious subject of musicians who sadly died at some point over the last 12 months.
It’s been confirmed that Mitch Lucker, frontman for Suicide Silence has died following a motorbike crash in Huntington Beach, California. At the time of writing, no further details regarding the nature of the crash have been released†. He was just 28 years old.
Suicide Silence
The Black Crown
Century Media
18 July 2011
by Andy Parker
During the creation of The Black Crown, Suicide Silence have been talking a lot about their decision to ditching many of the digital processes used by their previous producer, Machine. This time around they have instead teamed up with Steve Evett (Dillinger Escape Plan, Architects) to create an album that closer reflects the sound of their live performances. That decisions has paid-off by the truckload.
Despite what the band says, it really was cold, wet and miserable when we ran into Suicide Silence. Vocalist, Mitch Lucker and guitarist, Mark Heylmun were soaked through but we still talked about moisturing and having sex with robots. Obvs!
The Californian don’t-call-them-deathcore-types, Suicide Silence, have released the video today to ‘Wake Up’, the opening track on their latest album, No Time To Bleed. And it’s as mad-bat crazy as a bad night out in Tijuana, after alf a bottle of gutrot tequila and one too many hits of peyote.
Are we really half way through 2009 already? Apparently so. Feeling confused about the six months just gone, and the six left to go? Thrash Hits is here to guide you – well, through the next four weeks, at least.
Events
For those of you lucky enought to live alongside Thrash Hits in London town, tonight sees the launch of Someone’s Yelling Fire, a new punk/hardcore/metal/screamo/emo night at the recently-reopened Highbury Garage. Get there early enough and you’ll be able to catch live sets from The Xcerts, Save Your Breath and Flood of Red. Get their later, and you get to see Thrash Hits staffers collapse at the bar following an excess of beers. Double trouble! And just a fiver to boot.
Can you think of a metal sub-genre that splits opinion quite like Deathcore? No, didn’t think so. Who better to grill about it then, than Mitch Lucker, frontman of the crown princes of the genre, Suicide Silence?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview was originally published on MusicTowers.com. It is re-printed here with their full permission.
Mitch Lucker’s leg is jiggling. Vocalist with rising Californian deathcore stars, Suicide Silence, Lucker is sitting on a small sofa backstage at the Islington Academy – well, below stage actually, the bowels of the building constituting the dressing room area – about an hour before his band takes the stage to headline the Summer Slaughter tour. The vocalist is visably agitated about something.
“I stress over everything,” he reveals. “I’m a germaphobe, I count things compulsively, I over-think things constantly. The less that’s in here,” he says, tapping the side of his head, “the less I have to stress about.”
