- CANDIRIA
- The hottest underground band at the moment. Breaking away
from the standard musical clichés, boldly fusing the elements and raw energy of NYC,
playing almost everything from funk-based hard core to death metal, from classic jazz to
rap...A real treat, something to seek your teeth into...The last two available albums are
huge!
- Heavy Mental Music for the mind
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- HISTORY
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- I have coincidentally stumbled upon the name CANDIRIA
in one very commercial publication where they have introduced the band as one of the ten
best metal acts of 1999. Having no previous knowledge of the band and thus being
completely without any sort of preliminary prejudice I have decided to search the web for
the name CANDIRIA. Luckily, www.gyrate.org
had all the necessary info for me to get in touch with the band members and even MIA
Records. Very nice people in the record label have soon sent me a package
containing two albums (CD format). And, then the real journey began...
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- THE BAND
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- Well, it is quite hard to put down the first impression.
I guess this is the pure sound of the urban concrete jungle we call life with all
its the brutal and harsh reality, the music that reflects all aspects of life. Very
intense music, very powerful yet in its essence perfectly balanced. CANDIRIA's
main orientation is aggressive and rough hard-core metal with really raspy vocals.
However, the music on both albums is being constantly cut short by rapid and unexpected
outbursts of ghetto rap with fat bass and smart lyrics, classic jazz with saucy horns and
this really strange industrial noises that are, to me, reminiscent of PRAXIS,
that weird project on Axiom Records (courtesy of Bill Laswell). All in all, CANDIRIA
offers more than you expect, more than words can fully express.
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- MEMBERS
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- CANDIRIA members are all great musicians
well aware of the fact that music is practically without boundaries and limitations. Beyond
Reasonable Doubt features Carley Coma (vocalisations), John 'BeBop'
LaMacchia (guitars), Eric Matthews (guitar) and Kenneth Schalk (drum set); bass on various
songs played either by Eric or Kenneth only Mike Strauber performs on Lost in the
Forest.
- The latest album, Process of Self.Development,
also features a new member, Michael Macivor playing the 5-string fretted and fretless
bass.
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt (
©TOO DAMN HYPE Records '97 )
- Faction / Year One / Lost in the Forest / Paradigm
Shift / Tribes / Molecular Dialect / Divided / Mental Politics / Riding the Spiral /
Primary Obstacle / Intrusive Statements
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- Process of Self.Development (
©MIA Records '99 )
- Three Times Again / Onefourtyeight / Pull / Method of
Expression / Temple of Sickness / Mathematics / Work in Progress / Matter.anti.matter /
Cleansing / Elevate in Madness / Down to the Last Element / The Process of
Self.Development / Leaving the Atmosphere
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