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About to Pop: Escape the Fate

Nadine Cheung

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Who: Escape the Fate
Album: 'This War is Ours'
Video: 'The Flood'
Hails From: Las Vegas
For Fans Of: Chiodos and Atreyu

Why They're About to Pop: Escape the Fate has been through the ringer. After the success of their first album, 2006's 'Dying is Your Latest Fashion,' the Las Vegas band began to look like the subject of an episode of 'Intervention.' Their guitarist Omar Espinoza exited, while both their singer and their bassist got hooked on drugs. After two stints in rehab, ETF's frontman Ronnie Radke was arrested for battery and eventually kicked out of the band, leaving the hardcore punkers in a serious predicament. However, fate just may have been on the boys' side as bassist Max Green cleaned up his act and former Blessthefall vocalist Craig Mabbitt was looking for a new gig. Mabbitt, a friend of ETF, was a natural fit to sing on 'This War is Ours,' and now the band is right back on track. Catch Escape the Fate live on their full U.S. tour with Chiodos and Silverstein now through November.

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Four Questions With Drummer Robert Ortiz:

What inspired the songs on your record?

This record was about everything that we've all individually and collectively been through for the past few years. We kept it real -- it had to be. We've been through so much s--- it's ridiculous, and to not get it out would've killed us. This is my, Max and Monte's first time working with Craig. He came into something that had already fallen apart and was in the process of being put back together. Emotionally, it was really unstable because we had just watched all our dreams and everything we worked for vanish before or eyes. So this record deals a lot with coping with all our struggles, and mainly pushing forward past them.

What's your favorite song on the record?

Its hard to choose. Every song was an amazing experience to make, even if it was a horrible one. But it's like choosing between your children. They all come from within you, and you have to put your whole life into making sure they come out right. I like them all for different reasons. I can truly say that I'm a fan of this record.

If you could have any musician's career other than your own, whose would it be?

That's hard, but the one that comes to mind first is the Rolling Stones. To have that kind of longevity is insane. It doesn't happen. People were blown away at the fact that you had been doing it for so long ... twenty years ago. It's an amazing thing.

What did you think life as a musician would be like when you first started out and how does it compare to what it's really like for you now?

Well, right now life as a musician is right on schedule of how I planned it. I'm making money, but not at the top yet. I wanted to build it up. I wanted to have those die hard fans who look for your music and whose lives are changed when they hear you, so much so that they spend all their energy on making sure everyone around them hears it. [I want] the kind of fans who choose to listen to you, not be forced to listen to you because it's pumped in your face 24/7. I didn't want to jump into the limelight and be the flavor of the week. I'm in this for the long haul, even if it meant dealing with the lowest of lows people can have. But maybe I needed those struggles to build me into a man and prove to myself that making music is worth it, no matter how s----- it gets. Now everything is moving in the right direction: up.

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creepyradishok

11:55 AMNov 08 2008

Are you kidding me? They are already mainstream. I tried to deny it for so long, but when the Situations video on youtube reached over 3 million views, I finally came to my senses.

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ChemicalTiffany

12:53 PMNov 01 2008

i love escape the fate!i've been a fan since they were still an underground band (:bu ive been getting pissed off because all these little stupid scene ,emo kids are starting to be a fan because they see a "hot" guy in the band,or think their emo or scene which i think i really stupid.and i am a HUGE fan of ronnie radke too but i still love escape the fate and stupport what they do.but i cant stand craig he stole all of his ideas from ronnie and i feel that he tool all of the fame that ronnie should be haveing,and he is going through so much shit while graig is TRYING to be ronnnie(and its not wokring)...well yea i just thought i had to say that (:

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Nativebaby124

11:36 PMOct 29 2008

its okay i mean i still lyke thm but back when they had ronnie thats all id listin to....

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Mandychaos

07:11 PMOct 28 2008

no Ronnie =/

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Vip1ChrisBrwnFan

06:39 PMOct 28 2008

ewif they become one of those mainstream bands im gunna cryno joke but with the new album that may just happenat the concert on friday i saw a girl who looked no older than 11 thats pretty fail

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GoTh PuNk GRL88

06:12 PMOct 28 2008

omg i love escape the fate...i cnt wait to go get their new cd!!! im so stoked!!! they are awesome and what makes them that is the fact that the were able to pull themsevles out of that grave someone dug but they made it thro and like im so glad they didnt give up bcuz they are amazing and the songs are like wow like who comes up with that amazing and yeah...im was so stoked to seen them live at the wiltern in LA when they were out this way and if all goes well hopefully i can see them again in vegas at the house of blues!!!

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ttrreelliiaass

06:01 PMOct 28 2008

i love them!ive seen pre craig etf twiceand btf twice. and now theyre combined!they should really change the name though,it just makes sense.

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