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With all the emergence of new hardcore and punk bands, Escape the Fate is among the top. Their popularity have just been steadily increasing with the release of their three popular albums. More and more fans have been discovering their unique and yet classic hardcore music. The band, just like with any other popular bands, in turn helped in the increased demand for rock band souvenirs or apparel, including for skeleton gloves.
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.
In 2004, Escape the Fate was formed in Nevada composing of the these original members: Bryan Monte Money as their lead guitarist, Ronnie Radke on lead vocals, on rhythm guitar they had Omar Espinosa, Robert Ortiz in drums, and on base guitar was Max Green.
But just like with other famous bands, they also had their own share of problems. Foremost of which is the replacement and the leaving of some of their band members. However, these changes also did result to some favorable results.
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.
Omar Espinosa also left the band in 2007 due to unspecified personal reasons.
Just about any band would experience such drastic movement of band members, in and out. Throughout a band’s existence, such problems are often expected. But Escape the Fate was a different matter because the band was still fairly young when all these band member changes happened. One of the problems they encountered was drug abuse by a couple of their members. It was however fixed through a rehabilitation program they themselves initiated.
Still all of these problems did not hinder them from gaining such popularity. It was mainly due to the success of their three albums to date: This War is Ours, Dying is Your Latest Fashion, and There’s No Sympathy for the Dead.
As to their first album, the ‘This War is Ours’, the band members claimed that one of their tracks, “We Won’t Back Down” shows the world the kind of wild party animals that they are. Perhpas it just goes to show what a hard rocker’s life can truly be as often portrayed in their music videos.
A couple of years later, the album ‘Dying is Your Latest Fashion’ was released. Personally it was a breakthrough for the band because they were able to come up with that album although they were experiencing some problems of their own. One of which was the departure of their lead vocalist, Ronnie Radke.
With the band seemingly at their most stable form to date, they are now poised to conquer the whole of the punk rock and hardcore rock scene.
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