Escape the Fate

Escape The Fate
Escape the Fate live at Las Vegas in 2008
Escape the Fate live at Las Vegas in 2008
Background information
OriginLas Vegas, Nevada, USA
Genres
Years active2004-present
LabelsInterscope Records, Epitaph Records
MembersCraig Mabbitt
Robert Ortiz
Thomas "TJ" Bell
Kevin "Thrasher" Gruft
Past member(s)Ronnie Radke
Carson Allen
Omar Espinosa
Max Green
Monte Bryan Money
Michael Money
WebsiteOfficial Website

Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The band was formed in 2004, in 2005 they won a radio competition to open for My Chemical Romance which led to a signing to Epitaph Records. In the year 2006 the band released debut album, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. With the new frontman Craig Mabbitt (Former Blessthefall vocalist) the band released the album This War Is Ours in October 2008. In 2010, the band released the third album, Escape The Fate, in November.

The lead vocalist Ronnie Radke left the band in 2008 due to legal issues. Radke left the jail in December 2010 and is currently a vocalist in the post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse. In 2012, founding member Max Green was kicked out due to drug abuse and missing shows and he was permanently replaced by Thomas "TJ" Bell, formerly of Motionless In White and Micheal Money, brother of Bryan "Monte" Money was introduced as official rythmn guitarist.

Band members

Current members

  • Craig Mabbitt (2008 - present) lead vocals
  • Robert Ortiz (2004 - present) - drums, percussions, backing vocals
  • Thomas "TJ" Bell (2012 - present)- rhythm guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Kevin "Thrasher" Gruft (2013 - present) - lead guitar

Touring members

  • Kevin Thrasher (2011-Filling In For Monte's On The Uproar Tour)

Former members

  • Omar Espinosa (2004 - 2007)[2] - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Carson Allen (2005 - 2006) - vocals, synthesizers
  • Ronnie Radke (2004 - 2006 ; 2006 - 2008) - lead vocals
  • Max Green (2004 - 2011, 2013-2014) backing vocals, bass
  • Bryan "Monte" Money - lead guitar, backing vocals (2004-2013)
  • Michael Money - bass, backing vocals (2004-2012, 2013-2014)

Discography

Albums
  • Dying Is Your Latest Fashion - September 26, 2006
  • This War is Ours - October 21, 2008
  • Escape The Fate - November 2, 2010
  • Ungrateful - May 14, 2013
  • Hate Me- October 30, 2015
  • I am Human- March 30, 2018
Demos
  • Escape The Fate Demo - 2005
EPs
  • There's No Sympathy for the Dead - May 23, 2006
  • Situations - November 20, 2007
  • Issues Remixes - January 11, 2011

Videography

  • Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché (2005) - demo version
  • There's No Sympathy for the Dead (2006)
  • Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché (2006)
  • Situations (2007)[3]
  • The Flood (2008)
  • Something (2009)
  • 10 Miles Wide (2009)
  • The Guillotine Part II (2010)
  • Massacre (2010) - without video
  • Issues (2010)
  • City Of Sin (2010)
  • Gorgeous Nightmare (2011)
  • Ungrateful (2013)
  • You're Insane (2013)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Monger, Timothy (7 November 2024). "Escape the Fate Biography by Timothy Monger".
  2. ↑ "// Alternative Press Magazine \\". Archived from the original on 2008-01-27. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
  3. ↑ Records, Epitaph (1 October 2007). "ETF Goes To School with their new video for "Situations"". Epitaph Records. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2019.

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