01. The Webs We Weave
02. When I Go Out, I Want To Go Out On A Chariot Of Fire
03. Situations
04. The Guillotine
05. Reverse This Curse
06. Cellar Door
07. There's No Sympathy For The Dead
08. My Apocalypse
09. Friends And Alibis
10. Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche'
11. The Day I Left The Womb

This record immediately brings to mind the likes of Aiden, and even Atreyu to a degree. There is a pop punk influence with a slightly metal guitar tone, which is very similar to what Aiden is currently doing (which in turn automatically leads back to the likes of AFI). On the other hand, the riffing is more on par with Atreyu, which has more of a slight arena rock feel to it. Vocally, it's literally impossible to tell Ronnie Radke apart from numerous other frontmen, from Gerard Way to JT Woodruff (Hawthorne Heights) to Wil Francis (Aiden).

All that changes once track number four "The Guillotine" kicks in. The full on Death Metal vocals that the band utilizes sound NOTHING like any of the aforementioned bands. While Atreyu does have aggressive metalcore vocals going on, they have NEVER been this heavy. The screamy blackened vocals also make this sound more like Protest The Hero than Aiden, only with less technical guitar work.

Unfortunately, this seems to be one of the only tracks that incorporates this, as the track that immediately follows, "Reverse This Curse" sees the band revert back to sounding like a total Aiden clone, with a more pop feel to it. "The Cellar Door" is the next track, and is basically a ballad. Nothing that hasn't been done before, and is almost something that you would expect to find on an album like this.

The band incorporates some "aggro" metalcore styled screams on "There's No Sympathy For The Dead". The track even has a solo, a few quick blasts of double kick work, and some decent keyboard melodies that close out the track. They also bring back the Death oriented vocals toward the end of this track as well.
The track that immediately follows, entitled "My Apocalypse," also has a good amount of screaming. And while screaming doesn't necessarily make a great album (nor does it always help to set a band apart as just about every band out there does it now) it does help Escape The Fate stand apart from being just another faceless pop punk, emo radio band.
The album's closing track, "The Day I Left The Womb," is an acoustic number with lyrical content that seems to be based on broken homes and drug addiction. The one thing that is a constant on this album is the dark lyrical content, alot of which seems to lean toward death and dying. And while Ronnie may make things come off kinda 'emo' vocally, the content on it's own is alot darker.

It seems that Escape the Fate is having a hard time trying to find their own sound. You would think that a band that already has an EP under their belts would have at least found a slight identity of their own with their first full length. It's a well known fact that any band's influences are always going to show up in some form or fashion. But it's entirely different when a band comes out sounding exactly like numerous other bands that have already established themselves.

What makes matters worse is if Escape The Fate does actually manage to get radio play, the chances of standing apart from those bands are slim to none. This in turn will make it that much harder to get their name out there, when many of the songs bring one band or another to mind.
This album by itself may not do much for the band due to the lack of musical identity, but it's not entirely horrible either. Hopefully Escape The Fate will work harder next time and really push themselves to find their own unique sound.