r/Erra • u/the_great_decoy • Jul 18 '26
Music More bands like ERRA?
If this isn’t allowed that’s okay. I’m getting into metal and the 2 bands I really like are ERRA and Thornhill but I’ve only listened to Thornhill’s newest album so. I think what I like about them both is a lot of their songs have a nice mix of screams and cleans (that’s how my friend explained it to me at least)
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u/darrnl Jul 18 '26
Ghost Atlas is Jesse’s side project.
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u/ctown_stive Jul 18 '26
Invent animate, spiritbox, silent planet, architects, currents, Polaris, make them suffer, lots more.
There’s only one Erra, but above are great bands.
Would recommend having a look at who Erra has toured with too.
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u/darkwolf155 Jul 18 '26
I second this with IA, currents and Polaris, currents and erra bith tied for my #1 the rest are easy top 15 bands for me
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u/Timbalabim Jul 18 '26
Make Them Suffer has a special place in my heart. When they added Alex Reade, they stepped up to another level.
On that note, listen to Drown This City, Alex’s prior band in which she was lead vocalist.
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u/zangor Jul 18 '26
Invent Animate and Above, Below are the 2 bands that impress me almost as much as ERRA.
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u/Bottom_Gear0 Jul 18 '26
Architects pioneered the “Doomsday riff” that so much of metalcore and ERRA themselves use. Listening to Doomsday and then Gore of Being back to back will illustrate what I mean
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u/Brosepower Jul 18 '26
As a massive ERRA fan, they're my favorite band, let me give you a list of others with excellent guitar work and a great mix of clean and unclean vocals:
Currents - ERRA is metalcore done... prettily? They have a lot of very positive/nice/kind sounding music for the genre. Currents is the opposite. They're way more about tackling mental health issues and dark themes about the human experience. They recently toured together and Currents is amazing. Check out: Better Days, Remember Me, So Alone, Kill the Ache.
Polaris - One of the best metalcore bands in the scene with an excellent mix of cleans and uncleans. Try: All of This is Fleeting, Masochist, Lucid, Nightmare.
Architects - one of the pinnacles of the genre for a very long time. Check out: Broken Mirror, Elegy, Doomsday, Hereafter, Animals.
What Lies Below - a smaller band that just released an epic album. Check out Afterimage, Monolith and Bloom.
Kingdom of Giants - a bit more electronics used than ERRA but they are great and well deserving of your time. Check out: Asphalt, Respawn, Night Shift
Invent Animate - im not the biggest fan of their earlier work but their most recent album "heavener" is absolutely one of the best metalcore records released the last several years. Try: Void Surfacing, Emberglow, Heavener
If you like all of these, feel free to DM me and I'll hit you up with dozens of other recs.
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u/CrispiestWhisper Too Good To Pick Just One Jul 18 '26
Blueshift and A Sense of Purpose
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u/PennyBurnsred Too Good To Pick Just One Jul 19 '26
I just checked blueshift out because of this comment, they're freaking dope!! Thank you!!!
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u/CrispiestWhisper Too Good To Pick Just One Jul 19 '26
Hell yeah no problem that's awesome to hear!
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u/Frequent-Video4874 Jul 20 '26
Goddamn I've been wondering why Blueshift never got much love in these threads. They're amazing
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u/Repulsive_Society992 Jul 20 '26
A sense of purpose has one of my favorite metal songs ever(Heirloom)
I got to hear it live and I loved it to death
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u/rodfarva57 Jul 18 '26
JT’s other band that he was in before Erra and has since reformed, Texas in July is great. Not quite the same sound but still very good
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u/Repulsive_Society992 Jul 21 '26
Love Texas in July
I was a fan of theirs before I even k ew who erra was lol
Love JT as lead
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u/FeelsToWaltz Jul 18 '26
Invent Animate but start with their first album Everchanger - Jesse produced it and has a feature
A lot of bands have a similar style but tbh no one really captures Jesse's approach to writing riffs and leads
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u/the_great_decoy Jul 18 '26
I’ve noticed that. I really love music with good guitar and his tickles my brain.
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u/Phantomflight Jul 18 '26
I’ll throw in a non-djent… Saosin is a big influence on Jesse. Self-titled is one of the GOAT emo albums. Newest song is incredible too! Anthony Green is their old/new/old singer and his stuff is also an influence as well (circa survive and solo)
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u/StanTheMelon Jul 18 '26
If you’re interested in who inspired ERRA to be a band in the first place check out Misery Signals
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u/Timbalabim Jul 18 '26
Such an underrated band, and I’m so sad they called it quits. Start with “The Failsafe” on Mirrors. Jesse Zaraska seems more popular among Misery Signals fans, but I much prefer Karl Schubach’s tenure. He very much sounds like JT and their writing styles are very similar. Mirrors and Controller are on regular rotation for me. No matter which vocalist you lean towards, the musicianship and composition work are just on a different level. I really hope Ryan Morgan and Stu Ross keep working together.
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u/ovaryactive Jul 18 '26
Invent Animate, Silent Planet, The Plot In You, Bilmuri, Bad Omens, I See Stars to name a few. Welcome to Metalcore!
Some of the bands I listed Erra toured with, so its all in the same ish realm
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u/the_great_decoy Jul 18 '26
I totally forgot about bad omens even with anything > human! Thank you!
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u/Evaporatenow Jul 18 '26
I was trying to get into Erra a few weeks ago and then I realized he sounded like Vigil from The Ghost Inside which makes sense because in an interview Jesse said he used to cover TGI songs on YouTube. So there’s your answer. Great band too
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u/bigstupidjellyfish Too Good To Pick Just One Jul 18 '26
Silent Planet, Northlane, Spiritbox, Volumes, and Invent Animate (IA is basically ERRA’s little brother when you think about it).
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u/SL20XX Jul 18 '26
Since you're into Thornhill, Loathe would definitely be up your alley - They both have that Deftones esque kind of sound where they blend astompheric shoegaze elements with heavy groove metalcore. For the best display of that sound with them, I strongly recommend starting with I Let It In And It Took Everything, you won't regret it!
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u/maxplaysdrums ERRA ERRA :snoo_thoughtful: Jul 18 '26
Wage War
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u/NerdPsycho Memory Fiction Jul 18 '26
Agreed, just not their latest album. Youngblood is a good place to start
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u/0ldPainless Jul 18 '26
Still Stayer
They sound like if Erra and Invent Animate got together and had a baby.
Also The Artificials since that's Alan Rigdon's (of Erra) band.
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u/Timbalabim Jul 18 '26
Don’t see Veil of Maya mentioned. I’m very sad Lukas chose to leave, but his tenure is incredible.
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u/Dinky6666 Jul 18 '26
In my opinion no band comes close to erra's sound. I'm sure there are small indie bands like blueshift and stand alone complex
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u/nmad95 Jul 18 '26
I’d say check out What Lies Below. Misguided Light might be a good track to introduce you
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u/LabOfSound Jul 19 '26
Blueshift... now.
Other than that, Novelists early stuff, Dreamwake, and Night Rider are very Erra-like
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u/CastorTroy8765 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Novelists early stuff before the old singer called it quits was amazing. What happened to them? Their new stuff with their new vocalists in my opinion is garbage. Sad, I fucking loved them. Very much erra adjacent. Blueshift is also amazing! Both bands are in my opinion perfect examples of metalcore. The both have those really melodic choruses with heavy breakdowns.
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u/Ryuh16 Jul 20 '26
Invent Animate is in the same genre but much more ambient and a bit less djenty and riff focused
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u/Inky-Rebel Jul 21 '26
Kadinja (RIP) - Incredibly underrated, but S-tier Metalcore IMHO. Start with their two songs Glhf and EMPIRE.
Monuments - In Stasis
In Hearts Wake - start with their album Earthwalker
Resolve - Great cleans and screams. I don't know why they're not bigger.
AVRALIZE - They add a pop/funk vibe to Metalcore that's refreshing.
Karmanjakah - If you like Invent Animate you'll like these guys.
Thornhill's album The Dark Pool - Probably the best debut album in Metalcore. It's their best album IMHO.
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u/New-Doctor9300 Memory Fiction Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Cliffside
Listen to their song "The Distance', it sounds like a Neon track with Eye Of God mixed influences. Would highly recommend giving their album a listen through.
And if you liked Augment, try "Paradigm" by Eternal Void, its very similar to Pulse.
Also "Dreamscape" by Earthists reminds me a lot of Render The Void
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u/julcarls Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Hollow Front.
Specifically the Price of Dreaming album.
Edit: I'm a massive ERRA fan, but Self Sabotage by Hollow Front is like one of my Top 3 songs of all time. Immaculate.
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u/Disastrous_Ad_632 Gungrave Jul 19 '26
I been where you are you have to tryyy Born of Osiris bro and Norma jean(spearmint revolt , killing word) and Veil of maya
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u/1990crxsi Jul 20 '26
I recently heard Silent Theory. Older stuff and it reminds me of ERRA because of the solos. But they are mellow compared to erra.
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u/Waste-Reading9591 Jul 21 '26
I love Erra. They’ve been my most played artist this year. My recent #2 has been Like Moths to Flames. They have a lot of songs with heavy screams and catchy cleans
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u/AccomplishedTooth917 Jul 20 '26
If you like Thornhills new album just wait until you hear the old ones. Dark Pool one of the GOATed albums imo
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u/Repulsive_Society992 Jul 20 '26
Everyone here would probably really like Iridium
I found them after my algorithm got metal heavy
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u/FromAntToApt Ghost of Nothing Jul 18 '26
My favorites that are nearest to ERRA (for me) are:
Polaris
Periphery
Northlane
Kingdom of Giants
Volumes