Suicide Silence's Mitch Lucker Is a Heavy Metal Dad

Posted on Jul 1st 2009 2:00PM by Amy Sciarretto Comments


Some things in life are happy accidents. Like the fact that Suicide Silence vocalist Mitch Lucker is releasing his band's second album, 'No Time to Bleed,' on June 30, the same day his daughter turns two. When he's not touring, the 24-year-old Lucker is a full time dad. "I go from two extremes," Lucker told Noisecreep. "From being full-time on tour for three months straights to flying home and being at her beck and call until I go to bed! That's also my job. They're both me. I wouldn't have it any other way!"

Being his daughter's primary caregiver presents a conundrum for Lucker and that's leaving her for brief spurts to tour the country. "It's the hardest thing I deal with, but what I'm doing is the reason we have a roof over our heads and that I can take care of her. I hate being gone, but my family couldn't survive without me going on tour. Tons of fathers out there don't want to wake up and go to work, but they have to, in order provide. I don't consider Suicide Silence work. I just tell her, 'Daddy is going to leave and go play music now!'" Lucker makes the separation bearable through technology like Skype and his cell phone, saying, "It's cool to be able to be elsewhere and hear her."

Lucker's daughter is probably the youngest attendee at Suicide Silence shows, too. "We put the decibel-eliminating headphones on her and she is super entertained." Her first show wasn't Suicide Silence, though; it was Circa Survive's Anthony Green on a solo tour. "The bus dropped me off at the end of the Mayhem tour and that night, I took her to the show. She sat her on my shoulders. As long as there are lights, movement and music, that girl is happy. She saw me performing, telling the crowd to jump up and put their hands in air. I looked over at her in the corner on stage and she was jumping up and down and dancing, too!" And with that, Lucker pulls the phone from his mouth and says, "Hi, baby. Don't tell mommy 'no.' You have to take your vitamins." He comes back to the interview conversation, saying, "She's gotta take her vitamins, you know?"
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mildredmglucker

Congratulations on your recent wedding. Wish you the best. Now you are in the same league as your cousin, Eric who just got married also.

Good luck and hope some day you take home the Grammy.

Aunt Mildred.

May 10 2010 at 3:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ayutta21

ouw its crazy to know that Mitch is a lovely father..jeez,how lucky that lil girl
she got Anthony for her first show haha

December 21 2009 at 9:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Victor

It's so awesome to know that a crazy guy like Mitch is also a loving father. It really lets you know the variety of people in metal today.

July 04 2009 at 8:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bmx4lifehoe95

haha thats so crazy how you can be a god like that and a father at the same time haha

July 02 2009 at 12:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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