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[[File:Candiria_2_2105.jpg|frame|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|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)

* ''Kiss the Lie'' (2009)

 

* [[Album Title Drop]]: "Sirens" for ''Kiss the Lie''.

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: ''Narrowly'' averted with that traffic accident. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Some of the members were asleep when it happened]] [[Metallica|and were thrown out of the van]]. Everyone had to be hospitalized with a few of them in critical condition.