UPDATE, 5:30pm EDT: View twenty recent photos culled from Mitch’s Instagram account here, including several showing his affection for motorcycles and his young daughter.

Original Post:

According to The Press-Enterprise, Mitch Lucker, frontman of Suicide Silence, died at 6:17am PDT on Thursday morning, November 1. Lucker was hospitalized after a motorcycle accident shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday in Huntington Beach, CA. He was 28 years old.

No further details about the specific injuries that led to Lucker’s death or about the crash itself are known at this time. We will update you all as soon as we know anything else.

Three days before the accident, a fan snapped this photo that’s allegedly of Mitch on his motorcycle [via The Gauntlet]:

The band was scheduled to perform at California Metalfest VI in San Bernardino on Saturday, November 24. No word on whether that show will proceed.

On behalf of everyone at MetalSucks, we send Mitch’s family, friends and bandmates all of our best. May he rest in peace.

Official statement from Nuclear Blast — Suicide Silence’s new record label as of September — via Facebook:

It is with great sadness and regret this morning that we have to report that Mitch Lucker,vocalist of SUICIDE SILENCE, passed away a few hours ago due to injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident. NUCLEAR BLAST would like to offer our condolences to his family, friends, band members and fans worldwide who are affected by this loss. He left us doing what he loved to do most. He was 28 years old and will be sorely missed. Fans are encouraged to share their memories, photos of Mitch and condolences on the band’s official Facebook www.facebook.com/SuicideSilence and Twitterwww.twitter.com/suicidesilence pages.

Official statement from Suicide Silence via Facebook: