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Influences: Radiohead, Slipknot, Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Deftones, Circa Survive, Born of Osiris, August Burns Red, Alesana, Saosin, The National, Misery Signals, Nine Inch NailsErra is a five piece progressive metalcore band formed in 2009 from Birmingham, Alabama. Thanks to riding the wave of djent in the 2010s, a lot of hard work, and a bit of luck they established themselves as one of the most popular and genre defining bands of the 2010 metalcore scene.Erra had humble beginnings when high school friends Jesse Cash (guitars, vocals), Garrison Lee (harsh vocals), Alex Ballew (drums), Adam Hicks (bass), and Alan Ridgon (guitar) decided to start a band. They released two EPs during this time, a self-titled EP and ‘’Andromeda.’’ Neither EP set the world on fire, but they did get the attention of Tragic Hero Records, who signed them in 2011. Erra would release their first LP, ‘’Impulse’’ in 2011 and they hit the ground running touring with bands such as Born of Osiris and Upon a Burning Body. In 2012 Adam Hicks left the band and was replaced by Sean Price. As usual, more touring occurred throughout 2012. The band would hit the studio again and release their second LP, ‘’Augment’’ in 2013. ‘’Augment’’ saw the band getting more attention and started going on bigger tours.2014 was a really busy year for Erra. Garrison Lee and Alan Ridgon both left the band. Sean Price switched from the bass to guitars and Ian Eubanks was brought in as Erra’s harsh vocalist. Erra’s contract with Tragic Hero came to an end and they signed on to Sumerian Records and released the ‘’Moment of Clarity'’ EP in 2015. Erra embarked on their first headline tour in 2015 and started touring internationally, doing a Japan run with Within the Ruins and Earthists. Unfortunately, Ian Eubanks’ time with the band was short lived, as poor technique and health issues made it difficult for him to perform. He would leave the band after a winter tour with Tesseract and The Contortionist. After a bit of deliberation, JT Cavey (ex-Texas in July) joined Erra at the start of 2016 and tracked vocals for Erra’s third LP, ‘’Drift.’’ More tours ensued, joining the Sumerian 10 Year Anniversary tour with Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, and After the Burial and doing direct support for August Burns Red in fall 2016. Connor Hesse would join the band late 2016 as their full-time bassist and they would go on their first European run with Northlane.Erra would continue on as normal during 2017-2018, touring as much as they can if not doing direct support, then doing their own headline shows. They eventually found time to record their fourth LP, ‘’Neon’’ in 2018 which went to number 1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker chart. 2019 was a bit easier for the band. Jesse Cash took his side project Ghost Atlus on the road for the first time, but Erra would quickly get back on the touring circuit supporting We Came As Romans and Crown the Empire and doing their own co-headliner with Northlane in America, as well as supporting August Burns Red in Europe. Erra would release two new singles, ‘’Eye of God’’ and a cover of Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘’You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire.� In August 2020 Erra released a new single titled "Snowblood" and announced they signed to UNFD. In 2021, ERRA released their self-titled fifth album, following it up a year later with a deluxe edition. After a few years of heavy touring in support of the self-titled album, ERRA released “Cure� in 2024.
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Epileptic Flashing Lights: The visual video for "House of Glass" which thankfully warns the viewer about it's flashing lights.
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Deep South: Averted, despite being from Alabama.
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New Sound Album: Augment would clean up the vocals from Impulse and focus more on riffing than straight up djenty-chugs. Drift would add in a significant amount of progressive metal elements and vary up the song structure more, with varying song lengths and different heaviness levels. Neon downplayed the progressive elements for an early 2010 metalcore sound, albeit with a stronger focus on riffs and guitar solos. ERRA refined the sound introduced on Neon with a more polished mix, while also bringing aspects of Augment’s heaviness. It also featured JT singing more often, which hadn’t been heard since Drift. Cure delved into more groove based songwriting similar to Gojira or Meshuggah while also experimenting with Nine Inch Nails-inspired industrial soundscapes. It also dove into softer aspects of the band’s sound in a way that the self-titled album didn’t.
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Special Guest: Not for any of their studio albums, but Jesse appeared on Invent Animate’s “Naturehold� and Novelists FR’s “Joie de vivre.� Courtney LaPlante appears on a version of Vanish Canvas released months after the self-titled (which is the band’s first guest vocal spot since Impulse’s Obscure Words which featured the vocalist of Jesse and Alex’s old deathcore band, Adam Langston).
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Longest Song Goes Last: “Dementia� on Augment and “Render the Void� on Impulse.
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Updated Re Release: Erra released a "Deluxe Edition" of their self-titled early in 2022, with three new songs, three covers, and a feature from from Coutrney LaPlante on a new version of "Vaniash Canvas."
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Progressive Metal: Helped codify the “progressive metalcoreâ€� style of music note as in metalcore bands with progressive elements, not prog bands with metalcore elements. Erra and Periphery are examples of the former where as Between the Buried and Me and The Contortionist are examples of the latter. along with Periphery and Northlane. Erra’s style of music would later be cited as an influence by similar bands such as Novelists FR, Earthists, and Aviana.
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Metalcore
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Metalcore: The style of music and scene they associate with, and more often then not the bands they frequently tour with.
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Smoking Is Cool
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Smoking Is Cool: Highlighted by Alex in the “Skyline� music video.
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Metal Scream
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Metal Scream: Garrison and Jesse give out good ones in Hybrid Earth. “IN HUMANITY CROWNS THE EARTH!�
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Sequel Song: Psalm of Sedition off of the deluxe edition of the self-titled is this to Disarray from Neon.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: “Render the Void� (5:48), “Dementia� (7:36, their longest song), “Safehaven� (6:22), “The Hypnotist� (5:55), and "Lunar Halo" (5:52).
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: JT LOVES the spotlight, that’s for sure.
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I Am the Band
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I Am the Band: Jesse Cash is the main driving force behind the band and primary lyricist. This is most apparent on Drift where Jesse wrote and tracked ALL of the guitar and bass parts and wrote the majority of the lyrics. Played even straighter with Ghost Atlus, where he writes all of the music.
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Amicable Exes: The band is on good terms with Ian Eubanks. Hilariously, when Erra isn’t on the road JT works at Ian’s bar in Alabama!
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Djent: The scene they were associated with the most when they started out; this was most apparent on Impulse, but they dialed down the djent influence on later releases for a more flowing, progressive sound.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Jesse with Trey from Invent Animate. The two hang out frequently and Jesse regularly gives Trey (and the rest of his band) a good ribbing, but they’re thick as thieves at the end of the day.
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Shout-Out: "Gungrave" is named after the video game of the same name. "Scorpion Hymn" was deliberately written in the style of a Meshuggah song.
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The Band Minus the Face
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The Band Minus the Face: When Ghost Atlus goes on tour, it’s the same lineup as Erra without JT.
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One-Word Title: The band’s name, all of their studio albums, and all of the song names on Drift. Jesse must be a fan of this trope.
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Teen Genius: The band dropped both of their first EPs when they were in high school.
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Nobody Loves the Bassist
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Nobody Loves the Bassist: During the early part of the Drift touring cycle they didn’t have a full time bassist, either relying on a touring musician or tracked bass. Connor Hesse would join as Erra’s full time bassist in 2016.
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Word Salad Lyrics
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Word Salad Lyrics: Some of Jesse's lyrics can be really out there. From "Divisionary:"
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Expy: Vocally, Jesse Cash is noted to be one to Saosin’s Cover Reber. JT has a lot in common with August Burns Red's Jake Luhrs not only vocally, but their appearances as both bald, bearded, burly frontmen. Funnily enough, JT DID fill in for Jake on one date of August Burns Red’s European tour, when Jake was too sick to perform.
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Grief Song
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Grief Song: “Heart,� which is about the death of Garrison’s father and “Continuum,� which is about the death of Jesse’s first girlfriend.
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Surprisingly Gentle Song
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: “Skyline� and “Drift,� though the latter isn’t necessarily in a sad/somber way. "Memory Fiction" plays it straight, being the only song in Erra's discography to not have any harshes.
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Soprano and Gravel
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Soprano and Gravel: Jesse’s cleans with Garrison/Ian/JT screaming their brains out. That said, in the Self-Titled Album JT started incorporating more cleans.
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