Candiria

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Candiria
General information
origin New York City , New York , United States
Genre (s) Experimental metal , crossover , jazzcore , hip-hop
founding 1992
Current occupation
Carley Coma
John LaMacchia
Michael MacIvor
Danny Grossarth
Electric guitar
 Julio Arias
former members
Electric guitar
 Chris Puma
Electric guitar
 Eric Matthews
Electric guitar
 Eddie Ortiz
Drums
 Kenneth Schalk
Electric bass
 Mike Holt
Electric bass
 Eric
Electric bass
 Jimmy
Electric guitar
 Darren "DC11" Carter
Electric guitar
 Steve Fakelman

Candiria is an American crossover band from New York City , New York that was formed in 1992.

history

The band was formed in Brooklyn in 1992 and is named after the Brazilian fish Candirus , which can penetrate the urethra of men and attach itself with barbs. The line-up consisted of the singer Carley Coma, the guitarists Chris Puma and Eric Matthews, the bassist Mike Holt and the drummer Kenneth Schalk. After the demo Subliminal was released, which had a circulation of 300 to 400 copies, Holt left the band in the early summer of 1992. After two other people named Eric and Jimmy held this position for a short time, they did without another bassist. In 1995 the EP Deep in the Mental was released by Devastating Soundworks . In the same year, the debut album Surrealistic Madness was released, from which the two singles Temple of Sickness and Elevate in Madness were released. The album was re-released several times with a new cover design. The third re-release contains the songs Infected Wisdom and the instrumental Observing Highways instead of the song Purity Condemned and were taken from subliminal . In 1997, under the name Beyond Reasonable Doubt, the next album joined, on which Mark Scondotto from Shutdown in the song Faction , Jorge Rosado from Merauder in Year One and Ryan Murphy from Cutthroat can be heard as guest musicians. John "Be-Bop" Malonti is included as the new bass player. The band also contributed the songs Pull , in which Tom Sheehan from Indecision can also be heard, and Statistics for the sampler New York's Hardest: Volume II . Even at that time, the group was still without a permanent bass player. A short time later, Puma left the band and was replaced by John LaMacchia. After bassist Mike MacIvor had completed the line-up in 1998, the next album The Process of Self-Development was released in 1999 , on which Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed , Paul Thorstenson from Dissolve, Phil Vazquez from Irate and again Jorge Rosado can be heard as guest musicians. With sales of around 20,000 units, the album sold better than its predecessor. A tour with Madball and Shadows Fall planned for 2000 had to be canceled because the former band broke up. In May 2001, Century Media , where Candiria had signed a recording deal in late 2000, joined the album 300 Percent Density , and was seen in August at the Beast Feast in Yokohama . In November they went on a US tour with Biohazard and Clutch . In January 2002 a tour of Great Britain followed, in which Clutch and Raging Speedhorn were again involved. At the same time the single Without Water was released. In addition, the title song of the last album was contributed to the soundtrack of The Mothman Prophecies . In May Beyond Reasonable Doubt was re-released on the band's own label COMA, with a second CD included as a bonus , which contains songs from side projects of the individual members. After the next album The COMA Imprint was released on the band's own label Lakeshorte Entertainment in 2002 , they went on tour through North America with 36 Crazyfists in June . Gigs with 40 Below Summer had to be canceled because the band had an accident on September 9th on the way to a gig in Cleveland with a tractor trailer outside Buffalo . John LaMacchia and Carley Coma were seriously injured. The band paused for almost the next two years as the members needed this time to recover.

In July 2004, appearances were held in the USA with Kittie , 36 Crazyfists and Twelve Tribes , before others followed in September and October with Shadows Fall, All That Remains and Full Blown Chaos . On November 9th the We Salute You Tour began, which also included Ill Niño , Flaw , 40 Below Summer and Drowning Pool . At the beginning of December, Darren "DC11" Carter and Steve Fakelman joined as new guitarists. The first appearances with a new line-up followed with Nonpoint and Dry Kill Logic . Until 2004 further concerts with American Head Charge , Bloodsimple and Otep were given. In February 2004, the band signed a recording deal with Earache Records . In April 2005 it was reported that Candiria had received $ 29 million for the September 2002 accident. The dimensions of the accident, in the form of pictures of the destroyed vehicle, were shown on the cover of the album What Doesn't Kill You… , which was released in July 2004. The sound carrier was produced by David Bendeth and released on his Type A Records label. About 35,000 copies settled. Later that year they went on tour. LaMacchia left the band in December while Matthews was undergoing back surgery. The next year there were also appearances with The Dillinger Escape Plan , Diecast and Nonpoint. While working on the next album, Matthews announced his final departure, so that guitarist Eddie Ortiz joined Coma, MacIvor and Schalk. The next album Kiss the Lie was recorded by John LaMacchia and Carley Coma at Jupiter 4 and Purple Light Studios and completed in August 2006. The release was planned for the same year. Kenneth Schalk left the cast upon completion. The release of the album was delayed until 2008. For October 2016, the release of the album While They Were Sleeping is planned on Metal Blade Records . The recordings had taken place at Spaceman Sound Studio in Brooklyn under the direction of Tom Tierney and Alex Mead-Fox , while the band took over the production. In her career, Candiria has worked with Hatebreed , Gwar , The Misfits , Orange 9mm , Vision of Disorder , E-Town , Concrete , Skarhead , God Forbid , Machine Head , Cannibal Corpse , Sepultura , Earth Crisis , Neurosis , Isis and, among others Pro-pain occur.

style

According to rockdetector.com , the band plays a mix of thrash metal , hardcore punk , jazz dance beats and fusion . Jason Ankeny from Allmusic found that the band combined elements from grindcore , funk , hip-hop and jazz. Martin Popoff wrote in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties about Beyond Reasonable Doubt that it was a mixture of Death Metal and Jazz. Parallels to King Crimson of the 1990s and Meshuggah can be heard in the songs . It will Growling used and there were influences from hip-hop and punk available. The Process of Self-Development is more extreme than its predecessor, with influences from Acid Jazz , Extreme Metal , Hip-Hop and Progressive Metal being audible. Popoff also drew a comparison with Fishbone and Puya . In the fourth volume of his book series, Popoff wrote about 300 Percen Density , that the band sounds slightly like Slipknot , but more like Nonpoint, Glassjaw and Puya. Influences from jazz and hip-hop can also be heard again. A band like Rage Against the Machine doesn't sound like Candiria at all. David Perri reviewed What Doesn't Kill You ... in the same book and found the album to sound more mass-produced than its predecessor. Polyrhythmics are still used in the songs . According to Christian Graf in his Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon , the band has its roots in hardcore punk. You play a mixture of this genre, hip-hop, metal and jazz and process influences from John Coltrane , Astrud Gilberto and Motörhead . Michael Edele from laut.de described the music on 300 Percen Density as a mixture of Nu Metal and Hardcore Punk with occasional jazz influences.

Robert Müller from Metal Hammer wrote in his review of Surrealistic Madness that it contained a mixture of Death Metal and Jazz that was bulky, fascinating and exhausting. In a later issue, Thorsten Zahn discussed 300 Percent Density . The album consists of "nasty structures made up of underground hardcore arrangements and neckbreaking Thrash Metal elements," with the band not placing great emphasis on melodies. The band moves between Rorschach Test and Pink Floyd . Armin Weber from the same magazine wrote in his review of What Doesn't Kill You… that the album was varied and at the same time catchy. The group no longer play jazzy hardcore punk, instead "clear arrangements, concise, harmonious riffs and polyphonic vocals" are important.

Dominik Winter from Ox-Fanzine described the music as a mixture of metal, hardcore punk, hip-hop, jazz and ambient . In an interview with him, John LaMacchia stated that Miles Davis is a huge influence on all members. Other influences are King Crimson , Tool , Radiohead , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Rachel's , Matmos , Idaho , Seven Percent Solution , Mogwai , Isis, Neurosis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter , Weather Report , Frank Zappa , Pink Floyd and Yes . In a later issue Uwe Kubassa reviewed on What Does not Kill You ... and called the band it as "chaotic [n] hip-hop Jazzcoreler " because the music is a mix of "fiddly hardcore and Jazzeinsprengseln" where "even the obligatory Gerappe “Don't miss out. Occasionally, you also use catchy melodies and clear vocals.

Discography

  • Subliminal (Demo, 1992, self-published)
  • Deep in the Mental (EP, 1995, Devastating Soundworks )
  • Surrealistic Madness (album, 1995, Too Damn Hype Records )
  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt (album, 1997, Too Damn Hype Records)
  • Mathematics (single, 1999 Stillborn Records )
  • The Process of Self-Development (Album, 1999, MIA Records )
  • 300 Percent Density (Album, 2001, Century Media )
  • The COMA Imprint (Album, 2002, Lakeshore Entertainment)
  • What Doesn't Kill You ... (Album, 2004, Type A Records )
  • Kiss the Lie (album, 2009, Rising Pulse Records )
  • Toying with the Insanities Volume I (Album, 2009, Rising Pulse Records)
  • Toying with the Insanities Volume II (Album, 2009, Rising Pulse Records)
  • Toying with the Insanities Volume III (Album, 2010, Rising Pulse Records)
  • The Invaders (single, 2014, Rising Pulse Records)
  • While They Were Sleeping (Album, 2016, Metal Blade Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography. What do you know about Candiria? angelfire.com, accessed August 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 46 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on August 24, 2016 ; accessed on August 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  4. ↑ Candiria - Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Discogs , accessed August 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Jason Ankeny: Candiria. Allmusic , accessed August 20, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The Mothman Prophecies (2002). Soundtracks. IMDb , accessed August 20, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b Martin Popoff , David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 71 f .
  8. ↑ Candiria. Discogs, accessed August 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Candiria returns with new album, 'While They Were Sleeping'. metalblade.com, accessed September 3, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Martin Popoff: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 69 f .
  11. ↑ Michael Edele: Candiria. 300 percent density. laut.de , accessed on August 21, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Robert Müller: Candiria . Surrealistic Madness. In: Metal Hammer . February 1996, p. 62 .
  13. ↑ Thorsten Zahn: Candiria . 300 percent density. In: Metal Hammer . June 2001, p. 86 .
  14. ^ Armin Weber: Candiria . What doesn't kill you. In: Metal Hammer . June 2005, p. 104 f .
  15. ↑ Dominik Winter: Candiria . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 44 (September / October / November), 2001 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on September 3, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Uwe Kubassa: Candiria . What Doesn't Kill You ... CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 60 (June / July), 2005 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on September 3, 2016]).