ESCAPE THE FATE

Text in or give us a call @ (702) 425-4423 to receive a FREE voicetone from Max and join our mob!

Head over to Escape The Fate @ Imeem to enter and get all the details!

Max has left a new message from the road! Call (702) 425-4423 to hear it, leave a message of your own and join the Escape The Fate mob!

This is your chance to perform "The Flood" live, on stage, with Escape The Fate at their December 13th show in Las Vegas, NV at the House Of Blues

Escape The Fate is asking you to upload your video performance of the song "The Flood".

Based on fan's comments, vocal accuracy and showmanship, Escape The Fate will pick the winner.

This is what is up for grabs:
Round trip ticket to Las Vegas for you and friend (or for Parent / Guardian if under 18)
One night hotel accommodations
$50 spending cash
Meet and greet with the band
Watch the concert from the side stage
During "The Flood" perform on stage

All of this is being brought to you by Rockstar Energy Drinks and imeem

HOW TO ENTER:
You must be a registered member of imeem. If you are not already registered, visit http://imeem.com to register for free.

1. Download the instrumental version of "The Flood" by clicking here

2. Video tape yourself singing over the instrumental track

3. Lyrics are provided for you here

4. Add Escape The Fate as a "friend" here

5. Join the Escape The Fate Fans Group here

6. Upload your Video to the Escape The Fate Fans Group

Now you are officially entered.

You will see your video here

Judging is based on:

Vocal accuracy

Showmanship

The video with the highest number of plays, comments and ratings!

Once you have your video posted be sure to share with your friends and embed your video all over the web.

Contest ends DEC. 5th

For Official Sweepstakes Language:
http://www.imeem.com/contests/blogs/2008/11/07/irQ1AwGn/escape_the_fate_rockstar_contest

Check it out! Now you can give us a call to find out what we're up to on tour.

Check out our feature over at PopEater.  Head over there to check out an exclusive interview with Robert Ortiz.

Click Here to check out the feature.

Our brand new album This War Is Ours is in stores now.  Pick it up today on iTunes.

This War Is Ours is officially in stores today! You can pick it up at Target for $9.99 (for a limited time), download it from iTunes or venture to your favorite place to pickup music.

This War Is Ours is also streaming at AOL Music, PureVolume and we are SmartPunk's SmartPick so you can give it a few spins before you pick it up!

Click Here to buy This War Is Ours now!

Party with Escape The Fate tonight at 11:30EDT/8:30PDT!

Tonight count down to midnight with ESCAPE THE FATE exclusively on their myspace page! The band will be having an exclusive web chat hosted by Kyte on myspace.com/escapethefate. Go there to chat with the band and watch the web chat. Countdown to midnight then pick up the new album online or in stores everywhere!

Details:
What: Web Chat Party with Escape The Fate!
Where: Myspace.com/escapethefate - kyte widget at the top of the page
When: 11:30 PM EDT / 8:30 PM PDT

Click here for the Escape The Fate MySpace.

This weekend is your last chance to pre-order This War Is Ours.  Head over to Kings Road Merch to pre-order the album and get an exclusive t-shirt.

This War Is Ours in stores 10/21. Check out the full album stream on MySpace

Over at MySpace!  Fuck yeah!! Get over there now!

Then check out Xbox.com to get a FREE download of "This War Is Ours (The Guillotine Part II)."

This War Is Ours in stores October 21st! Pre-Order the album with an exclusive ETF t-shirt over at Kings Road Merch.

Check out the brand new "making of" video for "The Flood."  It's exclusively featured at PureVolume, so make sure to head over there to give the video a spin.  Click Here to watch.

Don't forget to pre-order This War Is Ours in stores October 21st.  When you pre-order the album you also get an exclusive ETF shirt that you can only find in the pre-order.  Click Here to order today.

We are hearby declaring war on all of you guys on Xbox Live. Halo 3 is the game. The details are below. Get ready to be slayed.
This War Is Ours!

Xbox Live Game With Fame with Escape The Fate

Date: October 2nd
Time: 5PM - 7PM (PST)

Game: Halo 3

Gamertags: EscapeFate GWF1 & EscapeFate GWF2 **please note space between EscapeFate and GWF1 & GWF2)

Linking URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2008/1002-escapethefate.htm

Oh, and we forgot.
We are exclusively giving you guys "This War Is Ours (Guillotine II)" on Xbox Marketplace as a FREE download!

Now you can add the video for "The Flood" to your Facebook profile.  Check out the Rock You SuperWall.

SuperWall lets you add the video to your Facebook page and share it with your friends.

This War Is Ours in stores 10/21.  Click Here to pre-order the album and get an exclusive ETF t-shirt!

Pre-Order "This War Is Ours" CD and a T-Shirt now for just 19.99!
http://www.kingsroadmerch.com/escape-the-fate/


Get "The Flood" digital single now on itunes! Click Here!

Pre-Order "This War Is Ours" and a T-Shirt now for just 19.99!


After 30 long hours we are so stoked you guys accomplished 50,000 people on here at ONE TIME!!  And since you guys waited so long, as promised, below is  the stream and FREE DOWNLOAD for the surprise song titled 'The Flood' from our new record “This War Is Ours”, in stores 10.21.08 on Epitaph. We fucking love every single one of you. Escape The Fate fans are and always will be the coolest kids on the block. 

This War Is OURSSSS.....  Enjoy...

This Tuesday we saw the countdown hit zero and drove people to our buzznet page, launching the 50,000 person promotion to hear the first song. We are super stoked about this promotion as it shows the world the power of unity from our fans.  Every Escape The Fate fan matters and when banded together we can take over the fuckin world!! Take over details...

Escape The Fate will release their their second full-length, This War Is Ours, on October 21 and will be hitting the road early that month to melt your faces off in person. Dates.

Escape the Fate will be hanging out in the Buzznet studio next week...



We are giving YOU until Wednesday 8/13 at 11:59 pm PST - to comment on this journal post with a question you would like us to answer for you. These can be personal questions about yourself that you think we can advise you on or these can be questions about our new album, etc. We won't be able to answer all, but we will be choosing a handful to respond to.

Leave 1 question per comment. But question us as much as you want.

BY THE WAY.... WE SAID IT BEFORE AND WE WILL SAY IT AGAIN.... WE ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD! BE PREPARED.

No Escape

Drugs, jail and tragedy: Escape the Fate co-founder and bassist Max Green speaks out

Aaron Thompson Thu, Jun 26, 2008 (midnight)

It's been kind of crazy for Escape the Fate co-founder Max Green lately. The 24-year-old bassist has only been back in town for a couple of days and he's already been swept up by the storm that is Ronnie Radke, his once best friend.

Escape the Fate

"Former Escape the Fate singer Ronald James Radke in custody"
Radke, who was apprehended by the US Marshals Service June 16, now sits inside of the Clark County Detention center awaiting his own fate and his sentencing for violating his probation, which could land the 24-year-old behind bars for up to four years.

But the storm centering around Radke and his band isn't something new to Green, he's been dealing with it since the former vocalist was involved in a May 2006 fight that left 18-year-old Micheal Cook dead. Since then, legal issues, drugs abuse and worst of all, incompatibility with the other members of the group forced Green to kick out his best friend from the group in January. Green speaks out about his friend, the band and what it means all to the fans of one of Vegas' most popular bands.

LVW: So what's going on with you guys and where are you at as a band right now?

Max Green: Right now we just got done recording the album in Los Angeles, (and I'm) getting ready to go back to L.A. and listen to all the mixes and get the order and track listings down. It just like, finally we're back and we've been through a lot shit over the years. Losing a guitar player, walking out on the first week of the tour … and (guitarist) Bryan Money and (drummer) Robert Ortiz had also quit. They were done. Omar Espinosa (rhythm guitar) had walked out because of Ronnie and Brian and Robert had decided to quit before Hawthorn Heights because of Ronnie as well. And everyone thinks that with what's going with Ronnie right now is because of us, because we're being assholes. You know … when we were in Florida and Omar had just quit the band, we had a band meeting at this juice place and this homeless man came up to us and was like 'hey are you guys in a band," and we started to tell him kind of what was going on and he was like "Don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch, one bad apple can spoil the bunch," and ever since then, literally that homeless guys words rang in my head and when all this shit was going down with Ronnie and all the guys were quitting the band, I was like 'Dude, I cannot let one bad apple spoil the bunch.' I mean it was literally no Escape the Fate or Escape the Fate with a new singer and I put in way too much work into this band I care too much about my band mates and I care too much about the fans, dude. … So it was either quit or try to make shit work, and that's what we did.

With what's going on with Ronnie (and his legal troubles), how has that galvanized the fans and how they now see your band?

It's really weird because it's almost like a war has started, Max verses. Ronnie and Escape the Fate and who's going to come out on top. It's really weird because there's a lot of the fans who have been fans of the band for a while and they see what's going on. But it's like they take our side or they take Ronnie's side or the band's side or a little bit of both. When all the shit talking is going it's weird. Ronnie and I have literally been best friends (since) high school … we were in bands together ever since … and that's how it's been for eight or nine years.

With all of the stuff that's gone on with Radke, where is your relationship now after you kind of forced him to leave the band?

When we forced him to leave the band, like at first it (started) when I walked into my house and saw some pretty gnarly shit going on with him … we had an offer on the Take Action Tour to co-headline, we had a conference call with the owners, our management, our booking agent, our label and us all on the phone together and they decided not to put us on the tour just because of Ronnie's history. The same thing happened with the (Alternative Press) tour, we couldn't do that because of problems with our singer; he had burned so many bridges. So after he was kicked out of the band, I told him 'Listen man, I want you in this band. You and I had started this … and put this band together, so let's finish it together.' I mean, I'm not a saint, I did a lot of drugs with Ronnie, but when it came time to shape up or ship out, I chose my path and he chose his. It's fucking sad though man because … the Ronnie today and the Ronnie I met were two completely different people and fucking I love him, I love Ronnie to death. We've been homeless together, we've been everything together, I just wish that we could have gotten through his problems together. You know, drugs fuck with people's lives. They cloud your thinking; they cloud your head so you don't really know who to trust and who not to trust. If Ronnie wasn't on drugs, I'm sure he would have chosen a different route. I mean, I wouldn't change anything now, I mean we have Craig Mabbit (the band's new singer) and after seeing the album we created with him, there's no way in hell that I'd have it any other way. Ronnie in his prime was a really good singer, maybe not the best vocalist ever bit he had character and attitude. A lot of people would relate to David Lee Roth or Mick Jagger, but now, his voice, he just fucked himself from all of the shit he's put in his body.

It sucks and there a very good possibility (with Radke's recent incarceration) that he's going away for four years basically, it's a tragedy but …

It sucks. We tried, I mean, fuck even Craig tried to get him back in the band when he tried out for the band. But we gave him more than enough chances. When he went to rehab the first time, we gave him enough chance and it was like, we tried to get him back, we tried to get him to play Extreme Thing and he was stuck in that hole he dug himself in and he couldn't get himself out. We were like (to Ronnie) 'Listen man, cut the B.S.' He and I lost contact for a while, and a couple of weeks ago, two and a half, maybe three weeks before I came back to Vegas (from Los Angeles), he had texted me on my phone, and I told him 'dude, if you're going to start problems, I don't want to talk to you,' and we ended up having a good conversation. Prolly the next two days after that, we had good conversations. You know, if just felt good to be friends with Ronnie again. I mean, I don't have any family here in Las Vegas, I haven't had any family here in a long time and for the longest time, Ronnie was my closest friend, we were the only family either of us really had. We had each other and a backpack that we put our clothes in together. That was it.

The details around the case has been written a lot about, but despite what the law says and the records say, the fight ultimately involved you, right?

It all started over this girl who wrote me a message saying 'we're too good now to keep our old friends. We forget about everyone because we're so big and I deleted her off my MySpace. I responded "Dude, I have no idea, we don't know what you're talking about.' When we were in Virginia recording, I deleted my MySpace, so when I started it back up, this girl took it the wrong way, wrote a big nasty message, I wrote her back, she wrote me back, Ronnie saw it and from there, you see where it went. It turned into something bigger than it was … the next thing I know, I'm at our guitar player's house getting ready to jam, and I get a call from Ronnie saying he's not going to make it an that there's this shit going down.

And we're like 'Don't go, don't go,' and the next thing we hear, people are dead and we're like, 'what the fuck is going on?'

Ultimately that whole case spelled the downfall of Ronnie in a way, did you know Marcel and Michael Colquitt?

I went to school with Marcel; we jammed a little bit together. I mean the whole thing was horrible; it's hard to put it on a scale. The whole thing that was shitty as well was we were (on tour) and I get a call from my friend Andy (saying that Marcel) hung himself. My guitar player Brian said that he saw Marcel in the mall two or three days before we left on tour, and he told me to tell you that he was looking for you and he was sorry for everything … that he wished everyone would make peace with everyone. A couple of days later, I found out he hung himself …

Do you think that because of Ronnie's popularity, he's become the (scapegoat) or the villain of all of this?

I think that, and this is coming from years of being with that guy and experience, that guys is not one to think before he acts, he's not, he never has. As long as I've known him, he never thinks before he acts. I mean, I think that what happened was unfortunate for (the victims) and was unfortunate for Ronnie, but I believe in karma more than anything in this world, karma is real and karma will come back to ya, and that guy's done a lot of bad things to a lot of people and ultimately I think (jail) is the best place for him where he's at right now. I mean for myself, after doing drugs with Ronnie and shit like that and going to N.A. meetings, one of the first things they teach you is you have to be willing that you are your life are uncontrollable and unmanageable … and I really believe where Ronnie's at and where he's going is the best place for him, because there's been plenty of nights where we've talked and the things that come out of his mouth scared the shit out of me man, and I'd hate to get a call in the middle of the night or in the morning saying this happened to Ronnie or someone got Ronnie, … and there's a funeral this Friday. Literally I would lose my fucking mind. I mean, (the fight and the drugs) was his choice, it was his actions and he got was coming to him. Was it fair? To a certain extent, yes. Do I like it? Fuck no. Do I think he needs it? More than anything.

The Marshals Service said he had been soliciting fans for money. Does this piss you off how did you guys in the band feel about that?

I mean, I have a Paypal button on my page that says 'donate to keep Maxy-Boy alive fund," but I don't go out there to hit of fans for cash. I mean like, when we couldn't do the Hawthorne Heights tour, I had just gotten a house, I had a house payment and I don't have a job, and so I was selling merchandise or if I need cash, I'd go sell one of my guitars over MySpace. But when we were at Xtreme Thing, I was hearing stories form fans coming up to me that day saying they saw Ronnie and he looked fucking nuts. He was charging people for autographs, or charging people to take pictures with him. I would also get calls from bands asking what was going on, that they had sent Ronnie $500 to go to whatever say they were in to be in their band. I'd check out their bands and have to say "Dude, Ronnie's not going to be in your band bro, you just got hustled." Countless times I'd get messages from people saying 'Oh, I let Ronnie stay at my house and now my computer is missing,' or 'Hey, I just sent Ronnie a couple hundred dollars, now he's not answering my phone calls.' It really pissed all of us off a lot, like we're trying to move on, we're in a tough enough position as it is you know.' … And when we heard about what he was doing at Xtreme Thing, we were fucking pissed, man… I mean, I take that personally. … Like that and our success comes from our fans and you don't abuse that. If it weren't for our fans, I'd be working at a temp agency or a Domino's; I don't know what I'd do.

Do you think his money was being used for his drug abuse problems, or for him to live or what?

As long as I've known Ronnie, we've never had a hard time finding a place to live or finding a couch to crash on for the night, especially with creating the names for himself, Ronnie Radke from Escape the Fate … I can't tell you 100 percent that every dollar went to drugs, but I can tell for a fact that a majority of that money went to drugs. Maybe some of it went to drugs, maybe some to a new pair of kicks, he always liked buying new shit and buying his drugs. I mean I'm not trying to pin him as some horrible drug addict while I'm not one, cause I was right there with him. I mean, I never got gnarly and hustled fans for money, but I did my fair share of partying, but I want to make that clear. I'm not trying to paint a picture of him as a big drug monster because he and I were right there along with each other.

With everything that's going on, how has MySpace helped, or hurt you guys with what is going down?

It seems we've been under a microscope ever since we started. You know people love to hate and everyone hates to love us at the same time. In a way, there's no such thing as bad publicity. I mean fuck, we couldn't pay for publicity like this. But as the same time, it's like we're trying so hard to get away from this murderer drug, addict label that our band has. I mean there was a stupid rumor that we wrote "No Sympathy for the Dead," about Michael Cook, but that was ridiculous. I mean we wrote that song in (a) garage years before there was even talk of being on a label. In a way, I guess I can't think of anything good that this whole thing has brought. Sure it's brought a lot of ears and eyes to our band, but at the same time, it's not the way I wanted it to be.

When Ronnie gets out of jail, would you and the band we willing to consider a relationship with Ronnie in the band again or have you even thought of that?

Like I said, this is the same ol' song and dance for us. So many times members have quit because of Ronnie. We've literally given that guy so many chances, it's nothing really new to us … but it's never been this gnarly, none of us have ever gone to jail. I mean, I was thinking the last couple of nights about going to jail to see him, but not to be an asshole. I mean, I just want to see and tell him I wish things would have been different and that I still love him no matter what and I know who he is on the inside and I just want to tell him to stay safe while he's in there and when he gets out and wants to say hi, I'll have a meal with him … But as far as another relationship musically, I don't see it in the cards. Ever.