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About Candiria:

Candiria is a band from Brooklyn, New York. They mingle different styles of music including hardcore, jazz, and knock. Candiria be obsessed frequently dubbed their sound "Urban fusion".

Candiria was initially formed in 1992 close singer Carley Coma, guitarists Chris Puma and Eric Matthews, drummer Kenneth Schalk, and bassist Michael MacIvor. Even beforehand on they were creating uncommon music, with vocals that ranged from dehydrated barks to hit. Chris and Eric's guitar own place down Candiria's rhythmical class as riffing with little melody interrupted beside jazzy chord progressions during the jazz breaks. Ken Schalk's drumming regularly consists of laying down a groove while staying accurate to the non-same period signatures that command the music, paired up with Michael's exceptional bass lines. Michael, in actuality, may be the least metal-influenced colleague of the assembly, as clear in his melodically complex basslines which much do not move the guitar riffs.

Chris Puma was replaced next to John Lamacchia before 1997's Beyond Reasonable Doubt, while Lamacchia himself sinistral-hand the ribbon after 2004's What Doesn't Kill You… The latter album features a defend snapshot of the sash's van after a heavy movement mishap it endured in 2002. It took the bandeau members sizeable interval to regain from their injuries.

As of 2005, Eric Matthews is no longer in the fillet.

Drummer Ken Schalk has been implicated in a at freedom-jazz side offer named Ghosts Of The Canal, who keep so afar released two filled-extent albums, Sessions from the Flats (1999) and Five Episodes From the Subconsious (2002), as satisfactorily as two non-album tracks which appeared on the award disc of Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint.

"Candiria" is plural representing "candiru," a microscopic blood-sucking Amazonian fish that lodges itself in the urethras of heedless bathers.


Discography

Albums
1994 - Subliminal (Demo Tape)
1995 - Surrealistic Madness (Too Damn Hype)
1997 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Too Damn Hype)
1999 - The Process Of Self-Development (MIA Records)
2001 - 300 Percent Density (Century Media)
2002 - The Coma Imprint (Lakeshore)
2004 - What Doesn't Kill You… (Type A)
2008 - Kiss The Lie

The C.O.M.A. Imprint
Not accurately a just album, this is in actuality a re-recording of Candiria's 1997 album Beyond Reasonable Doubt, featuring newly remastered and/or recorded songs. It includes a largess disc which features songs from some bands signed to Carley Coma's identification C.O.M.A., as sufficiently as two songs from Ghosts of the Canal.

2002 - The C.O.M.A. Imprint (Lakeshore)