Escape the Fate guitarist TJ Bell knew even before his band began touring behind its latest album, “Out of the Shadows,” that the hard rock band’s live show was going to work right and connect with audiences.

“This is a true story, man,” Bell said. “(Vocalist) Craig (Mabbitt) and I, we have these nightmares. We’ll be performing and like the people aren’t into it or the equipment’s falling apart or we can’t make the stage. Last night was the first time I had a dream about playing a show and everything worked successfully. The first time ever. So when I woke up I was like, ‘It’s going to be great.’”

Escape the Fate is continuing to watch those good vibes happen as the band tours this winter and spring, playing songs from across its career, including selections from “Out of the Shadows,” whose songs touch on metalcore, post-hardcore, emo, screamo and hard rock with a dark lyrical theme reflected in titles such as “Rather Be Dead,” “Fun in Funeral,” “Traumatized” and “Kings of Nothing.”

Escape the Fate will perform Saturday at The Black Sheep in Colorado Springs. Convictions, Renesans, Lungburn and Under Auburn Skies also will play.

“We’ve always been very diverse and not wanting to pigeonhole ourselves into one style,” Mabbitt said of the album. “This whole record, at least thematically, is all sort of based around those dark themes where you want to come out of the shadows, which is why the record is named that. It’s all about being reborn and rediscovering yourself and coming out of those dark times and finding the light.”

Those themes, Mabbitt and Bell said, come from the crises faced by the members of the band, which also include guitarist Matti Hoffman, drummer Robert Ortiz and bassist Erik Jensen.

“Every single one of us have kind of been going through personal existential crises and so has the business, the band, because of the pandemic,” Mabbitt said. “We did have a record that dropped during that. But we were writing that record before all of that happened. So we all went through these really intense personal changes and realizations, and then the band did as well. So that’s what this record talks about.”

Now this far into Escape The Fate’s career, Mabbitt and Bell agreed this lineup is more cohesive and banded together than ever.

“Absolutely. 100%,” Mabbitt said. “It’s just everything seems to be falling into place without us even trying that hard.”