Candiria

L to R: Maclvor, Schalk, Coma, Matthews, Lamacchia

Candiria is an Genre Roulette band hailing from Brooklyn, New York. They're best known for blending elements of Metalcore, Hip Hop, and Jazz Fusion into a distinctive style they like to refer to as "urban fusion". While driving on the way to a gig in Cleveland to support their new album during September 2002, Candiria's equipment trailer was hit by a semi-truck, sending it and the van the band was driving flipping several times down the road. Miraculously, the entire band survived the ordeal and even made a picture of the demolished van the album cover for 2004's What Doesn't Kill You....

Influences:

• Miles Davis, Tool, Steve Vai, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains

Related Acts:

• Ghosts of the Canal (Schalk, Maclvor, Lamacchia)
• Fuel (Schalk)
• Coma New York (Coma)

Current Line-Up:

• Carley Coma: Vocals (1992-Present)
• John Lamacchia: Guitar (1997-Present)
• Michael MacIvor: Bass (1997-Present)
• Kenneth Schalk: Drums (1992–2006, 2009-Present)

Former Members:

• Chris Puma: Guitar (1992–1997) (Deceased as of 2009)
• Eric Matthews: Guitar (1992–2004)

Discography:

• Surrealistic Madness (1995)
• Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1997)
• The Process of Self-Development (1999)
• 300 Percent Density (2001)
• The C.O.M.A. Imprint (2002)
• What Doesn't Kill You... (2004)
• Kiss the Lie (2009)

Candiria provides examples of the following tropes:

• Album Title Drop: "Sirens" for Kiss the Lie.
• Author Existence Failure: Narrowly averted with that traffic accident. Some of the members were asleep when it happened and were thrown out of the van. Everyone had to be hospitalized with a few of them in critical condition.
• Boastful Rap: "Words from the Lexicon".
• Cover Version: Of Method Man's "Bring the Pain" and "Deep Cover" by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
• Epic Rocking: "R-Evolutionize-R" clocks in a nine-and-a-half minutes while "The Process of Self-Development" is about a minute shorter.
• Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: The ending of "Mathematics".
• Genre Roulette: Band switches between Metalcore, Hip Hop and Jazz, sometimes within the same song.
• Harsh Vocals: It seems to be Carley's primary method of singing, at least pre-What Doesn't Kill You....
• The Unintelligible: Carley's harsh vocals.
• Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: What other band regularly combines metalcore with rapping and jazz?
• New Sound Album:
  • What Doesn't Kill You... is more conventional than anything the band had recorded up to that point, featuring traditional song structures and Carley singing melodically.
  • Kiss the Lie has a more atmospheric alt-metal sound that eschews the band's previous jazz and hip-hop influences.
• Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Matter. Anti. Matter" is a jazz-fusion number that comes in between two metal songs on The Process of Self-Development.