Craig Mabbitt and Max Green were recently featured on AP’s Chalkboard Confessional. Check out the full feature online at AltPress.com.
ESCAPE THE FATE haven’t exactly had the smoothest of rides since forming in 2004, but through it all, they’ve repeatedly fought the odds and come out on top. Their most recent full-length, 2008′s This War Is Ours, incorporated a lot of elements about rising above their past, however it’s only the recent past that the Las Vegas post-hardcore outfit wish to overcome. Their earliest musical influences-some of which you might expect and others that might surprise you-are still a large part of what makes the band who they are today. We spoke with vocalist Craig Mabbitt and bassist Max Green about how music has inspired their lives and livelihood.
Interview: Lucy Albers
If you were to make a mix tape from your childhood , which bands would be featured?
MAX GREEN: Probably a little LL Cool J, like that song, “Mama Said Knock You Out.” I listened to a lot of Smashing Pumpkins and Mötley Crüe, too.
CRAIG MABBITT: It would have Journey, Aerosmith, the Backstreet Boys, Color Me Badd and Sublime. Back in the day, I listened to a lot of Power 92, a hip-hop and R&B station in Arizona. I remember being really young and listening to a lot of Alanis [Morisette] and Sheryl Crow, too. Then I got in to classical music like Beethoven.