ERRA's Jesse Cash Plays His Favorite Guitar Riffs 

So glad to see him getting recognition. This dude is one of the best guitarists (and songwriters in general) of our generation.

He can shred and sing like an angel at the same time, this man is a legend

This dude sings crazy high notes while tapping like a mad man on his 7 string. It's an absolute site to see live.

Criminally underrated does not begin to describe this band. They deserve so much more exposure than they get.

An Erra cover of Dont fear the Reaper would be sick!

Always a big day for a guitarist when you discover drop tuning.

That Expiate riff was and still is something else. One of the best songs off of that album.

Him mentioning how much Misery Signals’ Controller album shaped their sound explains so much why I love Erra. Controller is a perfect album.

Surprised he didn't play that insane Gungrave riff. That thing is one of the most beastly riffs I've heard in long while

Jesse "And at that point it was all over" Cash

DEFTONES + MISERY SIGNALS + SAOSIN/CIRCA is the perfect combination of influences. Why am i so surprised? Thank you Jesse for expressing your influences, wishing you guys all the best for the album release ERRA - ERRA

Cool to hear you're a big Misery Signals fan. They don't get enough recognition IMO.

Bro the entire Impulse album is a riff masterpiece.

Having him playing "Reaper" made me realize that Cash is like this generation's Buck Dharma... Fantastic composer, riffage god, but totally underrated.

Vanish Canvas is an amazing song, I love the clean vocals. Then you add a little Courtney from Spiritbox in there? Dope ass song. I discovered Erra like 2 years ago and you guys are my favorite "new discovered" bands right now.

Tippy tappy, Jesse on Loudwire makes me happy

Watching Jesse speak this way makes me really he's a genuine down to earth person

Jesse is the GOAT. I don’t give 2 flying fucks if you disagree 🤘🏻

Saosin is obvious cause Erra's cleans sound nesrly identical to Cove

The fact that this dude sings while playing these extremely hard riffs just blows my mind, love Jesse and the Erra band, amazing album after amazing album so excited for the new one.

fuck I`M DEAD i just can`t-- this is so sick i think i`ve just become a huge erra fan

Oh yes nice! Great job loudwire on getting Jesse on here

I used to do security at the venue these dudes grew up seeing shows in. So proud of these dudes.

Fuck yes that Expiate riff is so sick.

Saw Erra a couple of times at local shows in Birmingham around 2011. I remember thinking they were really good, but my music taste for what they were doing in particular just wasn't there yet. Now, however, I've been digging back through all I've missed for about the past year or two on and off. I also have some buddies now who went to school with Jesse. Both say he's a great guy.

I started guitar at the same age with the same song haha… this guy must have practiced nonstop for years and years, very impressive and inspiring. What a gifted artist!

Jesse Cash is one of best cleans singers in metal core for sure to me & the riffs are absolutely insanely he's definitely top tier in metal core.

This dude is my spirit animal. From his taste in music and influences to the way he writes. Such an underrated guitarist.

I never thought I would hear a big band recognize the greatness of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Dallas Taylor is incredible.

Been waiting for this new album ever since Snowblood dropped last year. Jesse, keep doing what you're doing, you make me and a lot of other fans happy.

He got into Killswitch and As I Lay Dying, two of my favorite bands. No wonder I love ERRA so much

Jesse please, please. Take all my Cash..💸😅💲..!! 🤘😎 🤘👽 KsE yeah..!! 🤘💀🔥🔥🔥

This was just really nice to watch. Might be the first time I've ever said that.

He looks absolutely dead inside. He writes incredible music tho

Nice timing, I literally heard them for the first time just a few days ago

Ibanez needs to give him his own signature guitar.

I'm so hyped for the new album, drift and neon are masterpieces

Hears don’t fear the reaper: reaches for cow bell, drum stick and undersized polo

I'd like to say Jessie will now be an inspiration for future guitarists but nobody can fuckin play it unless they have 4 hands

Not only he’s good at guitar but his vocals are some of my favorite ever, you the man Jesse

Love how all his favorites and what he shows are just simple riffs... Then he's like and I wrote this for ERRA and I'm to myself saying holy fuck

Shouting Maylene and The Sons of Disaster out! Everyone go a listen to their first album

Jesse, you're one of the greatest musician of our generation, you need to know it

Fuck yes, the Maylene reference! I always thought they were so underrated.

fucking circa survive im i really big metal head but i fucking circa still listen to them almost everyday imo one of the best band of all time

I love how Jesse can sing with his voice and his guitar. Truly great work!

I almost never see anyone say misery signals is an influence in these types of videos, and I'm very happy to finally see someone mention them.

I am a simple man, When i see ERRA, i immediately smash like button. CHEERS!

Can someone please give me a link to where to buy that exact Ibanez 7 string model? 🙏🏻

dude your voice is so much lower when talking! Crazy how you can sing them wicked high notes D:

It's crazy how As I Lay Dying melodic style was an influence for so many modern guitarist. This band definitely shaped a whole generation.

6:37 YES!!!!! Expiate is my number one fucking ERRA song and I fucking love that intro/main riff tap too!! Especially with that amazing chorus vocals man, Jesse is the GOAT \m/

ERRA is cool, but my favorite work from him is still Ghost Atlas! It's got early 2000 sound that I really dig. Maybe it's because there's a lot of Progressive Metal band already in the 2010's which made me not bond with ERRA as much, but I am definitely checking their new stuff out

ahh, come on man! I really wanted to hear smoke on the water!! haha

It suddenly makes sense why I like Erra so much...dude just referenced all of my favourite bands. Serious props for Maylene shout out, I miss that band and all the love in my heart goes to them after everything that happened.

I always think about Controller when I listed to the Drift album. MS has always been my favorite, followed by ERRA and Counterparts for obvious reasons.

4:36 I find what he said here hilarious because that's the exact same way I felt the first time I heard ERRA. Skyline cracked my head the fuck open.

This interview needs more cowbell

Who hasn't heard of Misery Signals? come on, you're under rating yourself!! I was a super big fan of Misery Signals and Belakor!!!!

Top 10 solos of all time are from this dude. And 2 are from Dementia lol

I could watch and listen to him play that Elegy riff all goddamn day 🤤

Holy crap. I KNEW once he was talking about the 7 string guitar and how you can make awesome music with it was Deftones. I don’t know why but that made me feel awesome.

Its funny all these riffs he plays as influences sound nothing like the insanity he puts on his records. At some point this dude just figured out how to play like a maniac.

love the maylene shout out! my first favorite metal band!

Jesse, you guys are just amazing. im sure you hear it alot but man your guy's music gets me through the day. whenever im having a bad day, i listen to you guys, when im having a GREAT day,... I BLAST YOU GUYS! and my neighborhood has to listen to you as well! Rock & Roll, IS MY RELIGION! and honetsly, your guy's stuff really is so original. yea i can hear some things where im like "ol they got their influence from this, BUT, ITS ORIGINAL!"

Erra is absolutely amazing. Jesse has some of the most unique riffs I've ever heard.

hit like if u think hes lars ulrich son

Love these guys! One of my dad's friends sons is in the band! Sean Price is such a cool guy and great musician!

YOOO!! First off, just now discovered your band thanks to a guy I watch cover your stuff. LOVE IT! Then, I come to this video... and you tell me that 2 of the bands you really like are MAYLENE AND KILLSWITCH!! First off, we played our last show as a band with Maylene here in Nashville at Rocketown. And it was the most fun we had ever had at a show because they were our band's biggest influence. And Killswitch was one the bands I played most on guitar in my early days. We also aren't too far from each other. Man... crazy.

jesse is best boy

Vanish Canvas, that riff, also my favourite riff! Look forward to seeing Erra live in February

the Misery Signals name drop... man they were who got me writing on different levels after i heard them. One of the dudes in Counterparts also confirmed to me he was heavily influenced by MS.

Elegy is such a fuckin banger!

I appreciate that he appreciates Metallica and holds them as an influence. I graduated in 2004 and so there just was no big modern metal scene in my small town when I was in high school. The new wave of American metal existed but it hadn't really blown up yet. So I was listening to old Slayer and Metallica and In Flames. That's where I started, sort of my metal pedigree. Just after high school I discovered Killswitch, Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, ect and I was so glad to finally find a modern version of the type of music I loved so much. But of course I still revered the older artists that I cut my teeth on. I'm rambling a bit here, but what I'm getting at is I know younger dudes who outright don't like Metallica and consider it dad rock or butt rock. And those are direct quotes. They hear "Metallica" and think Black Album, or worse, Load and Reload. They don't understand that the bands they love like Lorna Shore or Knocked Loose wouldn't exist without Metallica, just like Metallica wouldn't exist without Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin. I dunno, it's like they can't grasp the idea that a band doesn't have to sound anything like a band that influences them and you need to understand how important the ones who came before us are. Metallica. Dad rock. Lol go listen to fucken Blackened and try to tell me it's dad rock. That will always be one of the most badass songs I've ever heard. Kids these days 😆

Off to listen to vanish canvas, love that song.

I just got into Ghost Atlas a few months ago. I was fortunate enough to grow up in the era of killswitch, AILD, threat signal. Ghost atlas has changed my life. You definitely created something special that hits my soul different. Cheers.

06:40 whats name song? HELP! :c

So weird. I’ve only recently gotten into Erra and when I first heard them I was like “this sounds like Misery Signals mixed with Saosin”. So this all makes sense now lol. Love it. I have “Let’s make history. Let’s make history stop” tattooed across my chest. So yeah. I like Misery Signals a lot.

Every great guitarist starts with Smoke on the Water haha. That was the first riff I learnt to play when I was like, 10. Still a classic

5:18 literally ghost atlas album

Man Don't fear the reaper is also the very first thing I learned on my shitty acoustic guitar. What a classic

The vocalist of Circa (Anthony Green) is my all time favorite singer. Probably explains why I like ERRAS vocals so much. it's always cool seeing one of your favorite bands is influenced by your other favorite band

Oh my god this is the Ghost atlas guy!!! He has ANOTHER band???

*_1:59_* *_That’s a bar fight riff. Bar fight riffs are the best riffs._*

Everyone ripping on him doesn't realize he followed a much similar progression as most of us in our early 30s-40s as to what we grew up with.

Probably the only good thing that came out of Alabama lol.

No strong southern accent in Birmingham? Anyway, I love your band and your work!

ABOUT TIME YALL GOT HIM LESS GO

NO WAYY ALL THAT REMAINS AND AS I LAY DYING WAS THE FIRST METAL I EVER STARTED LISTENING TO WHEN I WAS YOUNG!!! THATS AWESOME!!

He learned to sing driving in his car? 😐 So the fuck did I and I don't sound like that! Lol

Professor X playing guitar? Sick.

But what does Corey Taylor think about this

After finding erra in last 3-4 months my mind is blown. This band has a very distinct sound . Wish I would have come across them earlier

Misery Signals' Controller album was a masterpiece. Had that album on repeat back in the day and it influenced my guitar playing a lot as well. Such a good record.

Pretty sure this guy is up there with the sickest guitarists ever.

Drop tuning is what its all about!

Okay but that Maylene shoutout was unexpected

The fact jesse is a big deftones fan makes me warm and fuzzy inside lol

It all makes sense now. Metallica/As I Lay Dying/Killswitch/Deftones - mash those all together and you got something like ERRA. The last two albums are so so soooo good. Keep it up Jesse!

Props for the BOC don’t fear the reaper!!!! Song is awesome especially for coming out when it did .