Escape the Fate - Dying is Your Latest Fashion

Genre rock Publisher Epitaph Records External Links Official Escape the Fate Website Official Epitaph Records Website

Despite the numerous bands with a similar sound as Escape the Fate, they do just what their name implies. Having thus far managed to elude becoming another casualty of the post-hardcore scene, unlike many other of their ilk, ETF have created an album that not only presents them at their best, its carefully balanced ingenuity doesn’t veer too far afield. Yet it enables the band to maintain a sound of their own rather than become clones of other groups.

"The Webs We Weave" begins the album without any reservations. ETF blasts into the song with a strong guitar intro that sets the album's tone. Singer Ronnie Radke's vocal chord shredding presentation will definitely appeal to fans of bands such as From First to Last and their music is akin to Hawthorne Heights.

"Situations" tackles the age-old scenario of being entangled with teases and, while the topic isn't unique, the presentation is great. The lyrics express the confusion, the push and pull of such a situation with the lines, "The frustration it's a regular thing/I hate the ones who love to hate because they're just like me." Plus, the guitar driven chorus pushes the song right along and gives the sense that ETF refuse to look backwards.

Dying Is Your Latest Fashion has a lot of good things going for it, one of which is "The Guillotine". Like many of ETF’s songs, the subject matter leans towards the morbid and self-pitying, but careful songwriting prevents things from becoming overly sappy.

Unfortunately, shortly before Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was released, Radke was exiled from the band and it isn't clear what the band's plans are at this time. If would be disappointing if such an event prevents ETF from achieving further musical success since Dying shows a great deal of potential.