By “Tampa” Earl Burton
Live Review: ERRA’s The Silence Follows Tour w/Caskets, Currents, and Aviana – Ritz Ybor, Tampa, FL – March 10, 2026
You do not always get to choose when you’ll see an outstanding show. Everyone would LIKE all their concerts to be on a Friday or Saturday night, preferably with an Uber to get you there so you can party all night. Alas, great rock and roll shows have no set time, so Tuesday night’s show at the Ritz, featuring co-headliners Currents and ERRA on their The Silence Follows Tour alongside openers Caskets and Aviana, was a nice respite of metalcore that satisfied the fans.
How Do You Decide?
As co-headliners, how do you decide who goes before whom at a concert? Do you flip a coin? Play a hand of poker? Cage match? As it turns out, for Currents and ERRA, the decision was made back at the start of the tour, a little over a week ago. By the time the tour reached Ybor City on Tuesday night, it was Currents’ turn to close out the show, so ERRA took to the stage; either way, the metalheads in the crowd were going to get a great show!
ERRA has some longevity in the hard rock/metal world, giving them gravitas for their talents, and they brought an aggressive, potent sound that pounded the audience. The band, led by vocalist J.T. Cavey and backed up ferociously by Jesse Cash and Connor Hesse on guitar and bass (respectively), took the Ybor crowd through a plethora of their great tracks. They did have new material for the crowd, a tune called “Gore of Being,” off their recently released album silence outlives the earth. I particularly found another track from that new CD, “i. the many names of god,” to be outstanding, and it should probably be the band’s next track.
After ERRA had wrapped up their set, it was time for Currents to take to the stage. They played the entirety of their 2025 EP, All That Follows, to a resounding roar from the fans. But Currents also has some history, and they did not let those “old school” (if you can call 2011 “old school”) fans down. From the Follows EP, I was impressed by the song “My Severance,” and, while not familiar with their older tracks, they fit in nicely with the new EP in creating a fifteen-song set.
If you were to ask me, “Who should be the closer?” I could honestly say that it would not matter. BOTH bands kicked their game up and, whether serving as the next-to-last act for the night or the closer, they both brought the thunder with their efforts. This is the type of show you want if you come out on a weekday night!
Aviana, Caskets Deliver the Goods for Opening Acts
If you are going to have two of the best in the current metalcore scene on the stage, you must have excellent opening acts to prime the crowd. In Aviana and Caskets, the closing acts featured two exceptional bands that performed their jobs stupendously.
The opening act for the night was the Swedish band Aviana, and an almost-capacity crowd at The Ritz greeted them for their set (which should tell you how serious the audience was on Tuesday when they showed up for the opening acts). The band, led by vocalist Joel Holmqvist, was visually stunning, with three unidentified members wearing masks onstage. The guitarist/bassist/drummer in masks made for a unique experience, a la Tobias Forge and Ghost, and they were named Death, Fear, and Dark. I would have liked to have known who these people were (really, I couldn’t tell if they were male or female) because they absolutely hammered the crowd into a frenzy. Holmqvist, in his own right, was in rare voice, soaring above the bombast of Death, Fear, and Dark, and it really set the night off on the right foot with their all-too-short eight-song set.
Caskets, a British band that dates back only to 2018, was arguably a surprise of the night. They might not have been as hard as their tourmates when it came to the music, but they appeared to be having the time of their lives onstage. Vocalist Matthew Flood actually was cracking some smiles as he stared out over the Ritz fanatics, and the band kept the pacing up as they accepted the baton from Aviana and passed it along to ERRA. I am going to settle in one night and check out more of their catalog, because they look like a band that will be around for some time.
Next time that you see that there is a show on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night, don’t complain that you “gotta get up for work the next day.” You’ll miss out on some outstanding music, and if you missed the show Tuesday night at The Ritz in Ybor City, you missed a quartet of bands that are going to be at the forefront of the hard rock/metal – hell, let’s go there – the metalcore scene for some time to come. The Currents & ERRA The Silence Follows Tour, alongside Caskets and Aviana, will be sweeping across the U.S. and Canada through the end of April, so you’ve got some time to make plans – and maybe take a personal day the next day – when they come to your town!
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