Erra comes to The Masquerade to Pull From the Ghost
Over the weekend, ConcertHopper was in attendance for the Pull From the Ghost Tour stop at The Masquerade in Atlanta. This tour featured Erra, Alpha Wolf and Invent Animate. Later stops of the tour will also include Thornhill who is finishing up a tour in Australia at the moment. In spite of the earlier threats of storms, the fans piled into the venue in droves for the show. As the lights prepared to go down for the show to start, if you took time to scan the venue, you’d see excited people packed from the floor to the top of the balcony.
First to take the stage was Invent Animate hailing from Texas. The hybrid prog and metalcore band formed in 2011 and then self-released their debut EP in 2012. After some localized touring, the band released their first full-length album Everchanger in 2014. The band tackles some complex subject matter and flashes technical prowess, filling the room in a way that few four-piece groups can.
Next up was one of Australia’s metalcore titans, Alpha Wolf. The band, not without facing some of the pitfalls we see too frequently in the metal community, parted ways with their former vocalist who was accused of sexual assault. Despite this, they found a charismatic front man in Lochie Keogh and since those events took place, the band has largely catapulted forward in terms of their sound and their success. The band has been of force of nature after the shackles on touring were loosened. They’ve made multiple trips across the oceans to the US and will even be playing the Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Virginia this upcoming September. The musical stylings of Alpha Wolf (fast, brutal and in your face) are matched by their on-stage performance. The band leaves it all in the spotlights on the stage for their fans, even talking about how they are exhausted until they step on the stage and the energy of the fans recharges them and they forget their exhaustion. The rest of this tour and Blue Ridge are in for a special treat from these fellows.
Finally, it was time for the headliners, Erra. The band, who hail from Birmingham, Alabama, have always been something of local darlings in the Atlanta metal area. Having toured with some of metalcore’s biggest acts like August Burns Red, TesseracT and Born of Osiris to name a few. The group carved a path of their own and created what others have described as an act that is the “spearhead of the whole modern/progressive metalcore movement.” The band has made some power moves, featuring Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox on their single “Vanish Canvas”. All of this culminated in a powerful set that swept through their catalog of metalcore masterpieces. Like Alpha Wolf, Erra will also be making an appearance at this year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival.
The tour continues through late August including one date with just Erra and Beartooth in Ohio.
7/23 — Anaheim, CA — Chain Reaction
7/24 — Los Angeles, CA — Teragram Ballroom
7/26 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music Hall
7/27 — Roseville, CA — Goldfield Trading Post
7/29 — Portland, OR — Hawthorne Theater
7/30 — Vancouver, BC — Rickshaw Theater
7/31 — Seattle, WA — El Corazon
8/2 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
8/3 — Denver, CO — Marquis Theater
8/5 — Chicago, IL — Bottom Lounge
8/6 — Columbus, OH — KEMBA! Live^
8/7 — Detroit, MI — The Shelter
8/9 — Cleveland, OH — Beachland Ballroom
8/10 — Toronto, ON — Velvet Underground
8/11 — Montreal, QC — Fairmount Theater
8/12 — Allston, MA — Brighton Music Hall
8/13 — New York, NY — Gramercy Theater
8/14 — Philadelphia, PA — The Foundry
8/16 — Pittsburgh, PA — Enclave
8/17 — Baltimore, MD — Soundstage
8/19 — Indianapolis, IN — Emerson Theater
8/20 — Nashville, TN — Basement East
— No Thornhill
^ — ERRA Only (With Beartooth)
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