Prog metalcore originators ERRA continue their commendable consistency on 7th record ‘silence outlives the Earth’.

PHOTO: BRYAN KIRKS

WRITTEN BY: Matthew Powers

You could be forgiven for hearing the sky-touching choruses of songs like “further eden” and “black cloud” and thinking they were pulled right off Octane radio, but no, ERRA have refined their craft to a pristine sharpness here.

This time, the songs are just more digestible, flowing between guttural and gorgeous with memorable hooks naturally. Jesse Cash is in peak form here, laying it low and mellow on album opener “stelliform” before later letting his signature emotional higher range take flight on “spiral (of liminal infinity)”.

Don’t think that ERRA have gone soft though, either; “gore of being” sees growler JT Cavey more vicious than ever with a head-turning Deftones-sounding dissonant guitar breakdown from guitarists Jesse Cash and Clint Tustin. “echo sonata” crashes some major rhythm into the proceedings from drummer Alex Ballew’s double bass.

The ending trilogy suite of album highlights “i. the many names of god” which is a ferocious first act, the choppy, Orbit Culture-reminiscent “ii. in the gut of the wolf” and soft closer “iii. twilight in the reflection” lean into an industrial direction that may hint at a bold new path ahead for the cerebral metallers going forward.

‘silence outlives the earth’ isn’t afraid to make you open a dictionary either, with poetic, existential lyrics throughout that touch on what instant gratification through modern convenience does to our psyche’s (“further eden”) or destructive self-reflection (“echo sonata”).

Check out the newest visualizer for the latest single below.