CURRENTS PLAY TO HOMETOWN CROWD IN MASSACHUSETTS WITH ERRA
PALLADIUM — WORCESTER, MA
New England Metalcore band Currents, formed in Newtown, Connecticut in 2011, played a sold-out show at their ‘hometown’ venue, The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts on Friday, March 20th. THE SILENCE FOLLOWS TOUR, co-headlined by Currents with Birmingham, Alabama’s progressive metalcore band ERRA, along with support from Leeds, UK rock band Caskets and Gothenburg, Sweden’s metalcore group, Aviana.
Opener Aviana – whose members, all but the vocalist, are masked and anonymous – played some of their strongest songs, featuring “Rage”, “Oblivion”, and “Obsession” from their 2022 album CORPORATION.Included on their setlist from their new album, VOID, released in 2025, were “FATHER” and“STORM ABLAZE”, evoking visceral new sounds.
Following Aviana was Caskets, who played their most popular songs, “Drowned in Emotion”, “Lost in Echoes”, and “Glass Heart”, all from the 2021 album Lost Souls, showcasing vocalist Matthew Flood’s impressive range.
A brief intermission and anticipatory excitement followed as the audience watched the crew change sets, and a digital timer began a countdown to the next band and co-headliner, ERRA.
As their Spotify bio says, ERRA, formed in 2009, builds its sound on the contrast between “violent aggression with soothing contemplation,” mimicking the core concept of the band, where “humans are often in a constant state of flux, caught between the past and present, between different emotions, between one thing ending and another one beginning.” Their latest March 6th release, titled silence outlives the earth, was the main focus of their setlist. As they played new songs such as “further eden”, “black cloud”, “i. the many names of god”, “echo sonata”, “gore of being”, and “cicada siren”, the audience screamed back loudly, sending waves of crowd surfers to the front of the stage. They also played some of their popular songs off their 2024 album, CURE, with the self-titled track and “Crawl Backwards Out of Heaven” leaving the crowd primed and ready for Currents.
Currents, on their Spotify bio, say that they “don’t pretend that life is a bed of well-manicured roses. Rather, it has been by way of exploring the forbidden realms of a tortured psyche and ferociously searching for meaning amidst uncertain chaos,” a perfect descriptor of their gut-wrenching metalcore death-infused screams balanced with a harmonious melody of clean vocals. Opening with “So Alone” off their 2023 album The Death We Seek, the crowd erupted into a movement that could’ve shaken the entire venue. Other tracks off the same album, like the self-titled and “Unfamiliar,” followed.
Vocalist Brian Wille paused before playing “Remember Me” to take a moment of gratitude and express that just a few years ago, they were a smaller band playing for less than a few hundred people at the Palladium Upstairs, a smaller bar-like venue. Now, at this sold-out hometown show, they’re playing for more than 2,000 people in their biggest headliner yet. The venue was so packed that security couldn’t keep up with the crowd surfers – even the photographers had to put their cameras down to help catch and contain the waves of people moving toward the front.
The band also played some of their biggest hits off their 2020 album The Way It Ends, such as “Kill the Ache”, “Let Me Leave”, and their #1 song on Spotify, “Better Days”. They threw it back even further with “Into Despair” off 2018’s I Let the Devil Inand “Apnea”off 2017’s The Place I Feel the Safest for older fans, sprinkled in between showcasing their 2025 newest EP, All That Follows,with tracks “My Severance”, “Making Circles”, “Can’t Turn Back”, “Rise & Fall”, and ending the show with one of their heaviest tracks, “It Only Gets Darker”. Considering multiple shows on this tour have been sold out or have low ticket warnings, it’d be best if those who want to check these bands out purchase your tickets soon!
