“Issues” by Escape the Fate

"Issues" is a single Escape the Fate pulled from their self-titled 2010 album and sent out through Interscope on September 14, 2010: post-hardcore with its edges filed down just enough for rock radio. It found its way there, too, peaking at No. 27 on Billboard's mainstream rock chart and No. 32 on its Alternative Songs chart.

The video, directed by P.R. Brown and released two weeks after the single, plays like a gothic horror short told out of order. The band performs in a church-like hall until a mob storms in and drags them off to a grim end apiece: one burned at the stake, one dropped into a lake, one forced down onto a stump beneath an axe, and one straining to stay out of a noose with his foot on a stick, until the stick snaps as the video ends.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.