ERRA and Currents Ride Out the Storm in Cleveland

March 15, 2026 · Cleveland, Ohio

The wind was howling like the intro to a breakdown. Trash can lids skittered down the street like rogue cymbals, and streetlights swayed overhead. It was the kind of weather that would make even SpongeBob think twice about delivering a pizza. Still, the line for ERRA and Currents stretched around the corner. The show was sold out, and everyone I could see was holding their spot.

Inside, an ocean of band shirts moved toward the merch tables. Then the lights dimmed and a familiar announcement came over the speakers warning that moshing and crowd surfing were dangerous. The room answered with one of the loudest waves of boos I’ve ever heard. The first band hadn’t even played a note.

Aviana opened the pit

Aviana walked out masked, with only their vocalist showing his face. The first intricate riffs and punishing growls jolted the room awake. The pit opened early. Some people were already two-stepping while others were still stretching, getting ready for whatever the rest of the bill had in store.

Caskets turned the room into a singalong

Caskets made the whole bill feel like a lineup of headliners. Their vocalist moved from soaring cleans to full-throated screams, and the crowd sang right back. After Aviana got everyone moving, Caskets gave us one of the night’s most heartfelt sets. I went in ready for the heavy parts, and the sound of the room singing together is what stuck with me.

ERRA brought the room to a halt, then set it loose again

The opening note of “Gore of Being” sent the floor into chaos. Lyrics came right back at the stage. Circles formed, a wall of death opened up, and people moshed and two-stepped like it was 2011 again.

Then someone in the pit needed medical attention, and ERRA stopped playing while security helped. The pause stayed with me as much as the chaos that came before it. When the music started back up, the pit reformed almost immediately. By the time ERRA left the stage, the room was chanting for one more song.

Currents gave the night its final exhale

Currents opened with “So Alone,” and nearly the entire general-admission floor was moving again. Three bands in, I expected the crowd to have less left in the tank. From where I stood, it looked like they’d been saving some of it.

The set stayed tight and heavy all the way to “It Only Gets Darker.” That closer felt like the first deep breath after spending the whole night yelling, singing, and moving. When the lights came up, the wind was still going outside. We walked back into it a little sore and glad we’d stood in that line.

Setlists

Aviana
EVERMORE → FATHER → REDROOM → STORM ABLAZE → Rage → Oblivion → Anomaly → Obsession

Caskets
Make Me a Martyr → Lost in the Violence → Guiding Light → Drowned in Emotion → Lost in Echoes → More Than Misery → Glass Heart

ERRA
Gore of Being → Eye of God → Cicada Siren → Crawl Backwards Out of Heaven → i. the many names of god → Vanish Canvas → Drift → black cloud → Cure → Gungrave → further eden → Skyline → echo sonata → Snowblood

Currents
So Alone → Unfamiliar → Let Me Leave → My Severance → Making Circles → Can’t Turn Back → Rise & Fall → Remember Me → The Death We Seek → Apnea → Monsters → Kill the Ache → Better Days → Into Despair → It Only Gets Darker