Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion is the debut studio album by American rock band Escape the Fate, released on September 26, 2006, through Epitaph Records. It contains nine new songs, plus two songs taken from the EP 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, who would later be incarcerated and eventually become the frontman of his own band, Falling in Reverse, after being fired from Escape the Fate. It is also the last release to feature rhythm guitarist Omar Espinosa.
Mandy Murders modeled for the album's cover art. The album's title is derived from a line in the chorus of the song "Situations".
Music and lyrics
The album's styles have been described as emo, post-hardcore and metalcore drawing comparisons to the Used, My Chemical Romance and From First to Last. The track "The Guillotine" incorporates vocals that switch off between screaming and clean vocals. The song also incorporates shred guitar. The album's lyrical tones have been described as "love and loss through standard-issue blood-soaked imagery of guillotines, corpses, red lipstick, and darkness".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 "Makeup" which was previously only available on the Japanese version of Dying Is Your Latest Fashion."There's No Sympathy for the Dead" and "The Guillotine" were first released in the band's There's No Sympathy for the Dead EP.
"The Webs We Weave" was intended to be third single from the album, but was cancelled due to Ronnie Radke's departure.
"Reverse This Curse" was never released as a single but appeared in the soundtrack of 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. 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. Mabbit would later become the permanent lead singer and be featured in the band's subsequent studio albums.
In celebration of the album's 10th anniversary, Falling in Reverse played every song from the album during their tour "Ronnie Radke's Three Ring Circus" in 2015.
Commercial performance
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion sold 4,100 copies in its first week, which according to Robert Ortiz was the fastest-selling album for a new artist on Epitaph. As of 2011, the album has sold 168,000 copies. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on July 29, 2025.Personnel
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion album personnel as listed on AllMusic.Escape the Fate
- Ronnie Radke – lead vocals
- Max Green – bass
- Monte Money – guitar
- Omar Espinosa – guitar
- Robert Ortiz – drums
- Ryan Baker – producer
- Michael Baskette – producer, mixing, audio production
- Marlene Guidara – photography
- Dave Holdredge – engineer, mixing
- Jef Moll – digital editing
- Nick Pritchard – art direction, design
- Amanda Wieme – artwork model
- Michael Baskette – keyboards
- Karen Schielke – programming
- Jeff Moll – programming
- Dave Holdredge – cello
Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
| Australian Albums | 99 |