Dying Is Your Latest Fashion

Dying is Your Latest Fashion
Studio album by Escape the Fate
Released October 3, 2006
Recorded Studio Barbarosa in Bavon, Virginia
Genre Post-hardcore, metalcore, emo
Length 43:21
Label Epitaph
Producer Ryan Baker, Michael "Elvis" Baskette
Escape the Fate chronology
There's No Sympathy for the Dead
(2006)		 Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
(2006)		 Situations EP
(2007)
Singles from Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
  1. "There's No Sympathy for the Dead"
    Released: June 27, 2006
  2. "Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché"
    Released: September 26, 2006
  3. "Situations"
    Released: November 20, 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
AbsolutePunk(50%) [2]
Sputnikmusic [3]
Punknews.org [4]
Kerrang!
Ultimate Guitar[5]
TeenSpot[6]

Dying Is Your Latest Fashion is the debut full-length album by American rock band Escape the Fate, released on October 3, 2006 on Epitaph Records. The origin of the album's title comes from a line in the chorus of the song "Situations". It contains nine new songs plus two songs taken from There's No Sympathy for the Dead. "Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché" and "Situations" were released as singles, with music videos being made for both. It is the only full-length album and second release with original singer and founding member Ronnie Radke. Ronnie would later be incarcerated and kicked out of the band. He is currently the frontman for Falling in Reverse. It is also the last release to feature rhythm guitarist Omar Espinosa and keyboardist Carson Allen (although he was no longer in at the time). Mandy Murders, who had in the past dated Ronnie Radke, modeled for the cover art.

Promotion and release

Escape the Fate released the song "Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché" as the first single and later released the song "Situations" as the second single on November 20, 2007 on iTunes, which included "Situations", its video, and the B-side "Make Up" which was previously only available on the Japanese version of Dying Is Your Latest Fashion.

"The Webs We Weave" was supposed to be the band's third single on the album, but was never released due to Ronnie Radke's departure.

"Reverse This Curse" was never released as a single, but appeared in the video game Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam and on the Warped Tour 2007 Tour Compilation album.

Following the release of the album, Radke was put on probation for narcotics charges and later violated probation when he was involved in an altercation resulting in the death of 18-year-old Michael Cook, although Radke did not kill Cook. Radke plead guilty to battery charges and was sent to prison for two years, leading Escape the Fate to hire Craig Mabbitt as their temporary lead singer. He would later be made the permanent lead singer for the band and has been with them for the release of four subsequent studio albums.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Escape the Fate, except track 10 by Escape the Fate and Mike Booth. 

No. Title Length
1. "The Webs We Weave"   2:54
2. "When I Go Out, I Want to Go Out on a Chariot of Fire"   4:01
3. "Situations"   3:08
4. "The Guillotine"   4:32
5. "Reverse This Curse"   3:41
6. "Cellar Door"   4:36
7. "There's No Sympathy for the Dead"   5:25
8. "My Apocalypse"   4:43
9. "Friends and Alibis"   4:10
10. "Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché"   3:50
11. "The Day I Left the Womb"   2:25
Total length:
 43:21
Japanese Bonus Track[7]
No. Title Length
12. "Make Up" (labeled "Look Your Best") 3:28

Personnel

Dying Is Your Latest Fashion album personnel as listed on Allmusic.[8]

Escape the Fate
  • Ronnie Radke – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Max Green – bass guitar, vocals
  • Bryan "Monte" Money – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Omar Espinosa – rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Robert Ortiz – drums, percussion
  • Carson Allen – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers (uncredited, as he left the band before the album release)
Production
  • Ryan Baker – producer
  • Michael Baskette – producer, mixing, audio production
  • Marlene Guidara – A&R, photography
  • Dave Holdredge – engineer, mixing
  • Jef Moll – digital editing
  • Nick Pritchard – art direction, design
  • Mandy Murders – artwork model
Additional musicians
  • Michael Baskette - keyboards, composer on track 2, 7, 10 and 12
  • Karen Schielke - programming
  • Jeff Moll - programming
  • Dave Holdredge - cello
  • Mike Booth - composer

Chart positions

Chart (2006)[9] Peak
position
US Top Heatseekers 12
US Top Independent Albums 19

References

  1. ↑ Apar, Corey. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "AbsolutePunk review". Absolutepunk.net. 2006-09-26. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
  3. ↑ "Sputnikmusic review". Sputnikmusic.com. 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
  4. ↑ "Punknews review". Punknews.org. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
  5. ↑ http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/escape_the_fate/dying_is_your_latest_fashion/index.html
  6. ↑ http://www.teenspot.com/reviews/view.html?id=169
  7. ↑ "Japanese bonus track". Translate.google.com. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
  8. ↑ "Dying Is Your Latest Fashion - Escape the Fate". AllMusic. 2006-09-26. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  9. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/301883/escape-fate/chart
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