SINGLE SPOTLIGHT: ERRA - "Gore of Being"

ERRA find stable footing once more

3:52 // July 9th, 2025 // UNFD

ERRA’s meteoric rise in 2021 as the number one name in progressive metalcore was a thing of beauty to witness. The self-titled album propelled the Birmingham band’s already decent popularity into the damn stratosphere, providing listeners with a meticulously crafted 12 songs that were equally blistering and gorgeous. They should have been poised to take on the whole world, to follow up their self-titled album with something equally as pulverizing and progressive.

Instead, we got 2024’s Cure.

Now, I don’t want to make it seem like Cure is a bad album, because I don’t think it is. I think ERRA handled the left turn into Meshuggah-styled grooves fairly decently, and “Blue Reverie” still gets some decent replay value on car drives or workouts. But Cure’s main issue was that it was a decently executed sound that didn’t fit the band playing it. ERRA have always been defined by their soaring solos and intricate fretboard work, and much of Cure’s downsides come from those elements being all but removed across the album’s tracklist. All of a sudden, ERRA’s future was a question mark. Would they return to what worked before? Would they push forward with this new sound?

Well, we’ve just received our answer in the form of ERRA’s new single, Gore of Being. And, thankfully, it wastes no time in making one thing clear: ERRA are back in top form.

The single opens with Jesse Cash’s left hands dancing on the fretboard once more, a jagged riff that feels lifted straight from the self-titled, right before JT Cavey roars in with his telltale screams. The band sounds revitalized to a major extent, a welcome return to the sounds that catapulted them into fame in the first place. But don’t count Cure as being completely removed from the band’s minds. That album’s grooves are still undeniably present here, only layered beneath Jesse’s serpentine riffs.

There are still complaints and worries: specifically a by-the-numbers breakdown, and the chorus arguably sounding a little too clean for its own good, but it’s all easily able to be overlooked, if not for any other reason than sheer hype. It doesn’t quite reach the heights of the self-titled album, but ERRA have proven that they still have what it takes to make some of the best modern metalcore this side of SiriusXM Octane.

Welcome back, ERRA, welcome back.

8/10

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