PitCamProduction interviewed Escape The Fate on December 9, 2009 before their show at Magnet Club in Berlin, Germany.

Escape The Fate has announced an open casting call for their “This War Is Ours” music video.  The shoot will take place on January 9, 2010 at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana, California.

Lucy Albers recently interviewed Escape The Fate vocalist Craig Mabbitt and bassist Max Green about the music that has inspired them. Read below for some of the highlights:

“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.

Do you remember some of your first memories of music?

GREEN: My first concert ever was U2. It was when I was in, like, fifth or sixth grade. My theater teacher took me and a bunch of kids out to it. It was insane. I mean, I knew a couple U2 songs at the time, but I wasn’t a huge fan. I really liked “Sunday Bloody Sunday” [from 1983's War] and “Mysterious Ways” [from 1991's Achtung Baby]. [Robert Ortiz, drums] actually just pulled an article up for me the other day about them playing the biggest show ever, and they had this huge stage that fit people underneath and stuff. It’s so insane. They’re probable the biggest band of our time.

MABBITT: The only thing I can think of was in fifth grade orchestra when I was learning to play the violin and our teacher put on a video of a professional orchestra, like the London Philharmonic Orchestra or something like. That’s my earliest memory of watching music at all. I played violin in fifth grade then moved onto the saxophone, then joined choir and just started wanting to be singer after that.

What kind of bands did you move onto during high school?

GREEN: I was one of those kids who just listened to a lot of Marilyn Manson. I was obsessed with him. I still am. I also listened to a lot of Nine Inch Nails and Blink-182. Blink were actually, like, the second concert I went to and the first concert I bought my own ticket to. It was Blink-182, Bad Religion and Fenix TX. It’s so crazy that I went to see Bad Religion in high school and now, years later, we’re signed to Epitaph which is owned by their guitarist Brett [Gurewitz].

ESCAPE THE FATE WOULDN’T EXIST WITHOUT (according to Craig Mabbitt and Max Green):

Marilyn Manson: “It’s so weird how I really connected with a lot of his music and lyrics. I was used to getting picked on a lot and his music really helped me.” – Green

Mötley Crüe: “That band really changed me and affected me growing up, especially in those years where you’re really impressionable. They definitely helped mold and shape me.” – Green

Linkin Park and the Used: “I liked that genre of music before, but [Chester Bennington and Bert McCracken] really got me into modern music. I felt what they were singing about affected my life and I really looked up to them for what I wanted to do as a musician.” – Mabbitt”

For the entire interview, click here.

Who’s going to an ETF show this fall??