Know More About Escape The Fate
When you think of today’s top hardcore rock bands, Escape the Fate quickly springs into mind. With three top selling music albums under their name, they have taken the world of post-hardcore and punk music by storm. Slowly but surely they have been gaining more fans as their brand of music continouosly spread. As a sign of this, even skeleton gloves has increased in fame recently because of the band.
Escape the Fate is often categorized as a post-hardcore band. What exactly is post-hardcore music? It is actually a deviation, although not too much, from the popular hardcore music genre. However it also got a mix of other music influences such as experimental rock and punk rock. To some people, they actually find it hard to further differentiate post-hardcore from these other influences.
Formed in 2004 in Nevada, Escape the Fate had the following original members: Ronnie Radke on vocals, Omar Espinosa on rhythm guitar, Bryan Monte Money on lead guitar, Robert Ortize on drums and Max Green on bass guitar.
They also went through a couple of band member changes, perhaps only typical with any other popular rock bands. As some might have said, it was a serious of unfortunate events that tainted the band’s history but also brought forth some pleasant changes.
One of the first major setbacks they experienced was the sentencing into prison by their lead vocalist, Ronnie Radke. The band later replaced him with Craig Mabbitt.
The next Escape the Fate member to leave was their keyboardist at that time, Carson Allen, who left to join On The Last Day, anothe rock band.
It was their rhythm guitarist, Omar Espinosa, who followed suit in 2007. He did not specify the exact circumstances on why he left, citing only his personal problems.
Needless to say, it is but a common phenomenon that we see in most bands of this stature to see its members come and go through the years. However, Escape the Fate is a fairly new band and yet they have already gone through such major band member changes. One of the problems they dealt with was the drug addiction of some of their members. Through rehabilitation they were able to get through it.
They currently have three albums: This War is Ours, There’s No Sympathy for the Dead, and Dying is Your Latest Fashion.
As the band members themselves claim, In the This War is Ours album, the opening track “We Won’t Back Down” signifies their hard-partying and hard rocking life as a rock band then based in Las Vegas. The album may also show a hint of the influence of the music from their favorite bands, Motley Crue and Guns N Roses.
Then a few years later, their ‘Dying is Your Latest Fashion’ album came out. That album was a feat itself for the whole band, after all they were at that time, experiencing a few personal problems. To think that they were able to produce such a good album with all that fuzz between them was truly amazing.
Today, while Escape the Fate has been continuously categorized by their fans or critics, they often prefer to be remembered as that band that plays great rock music. Good thing that is true.
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