Following the singer’s tragic passing in a motorcycle crash on eight years ago, Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Graza has spoken out on former frontman Mitch Lucker, saying he thinks he’d be “proud” of the band.
Speaking to Audio Ink Radio, Garza was asked if he believed Lucker would be pleased with what Suicide Silence has achieved since his death in 2012 at the age of 28.
“I would like to think so,” Garza said.
“When I think about him and that kind of subject and that stuff, I always [think about what would happen] if I flipped the script and what if I died and he went on? What would I be proud of? What would I want him to do?”
He continued, “So I would like to think that he’s proud because ever since that day, I was the only one in the band at the hospital; I was the only one there. I saw it happen in front of me. And from that moment on, I’ve been kind of treating it literally that way: what would I want him to do [if I had died and he had lived]?”
“And that’s exactly what I do, regardless of the cost or the sacrifices, and I think he would be proud of that.”
It comes after a 2014 interview in which Garza revealed that he and his Suicide Silence bandmates had not originally planned to continue as a group following Lucker’s sudden passing.
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“We never talked about continuing and we never talked about quitting, so it was like an unspoken thing, ’cause with some people, a tragic happening, the last thing you want to do is talk about it,” he explained.
“I think keeping the Suicide Silence brand going and the name going keeps Mitch alive and I think it would be completely disrespectful to Mitch and everything that he worked for if we stopped going or changed the name,” he added.
Mitch Lucker died on November 1, 2012, after suffering severe injuries in a motorcycle crash in Huntington Beach, California on the night of Halloween.
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