Candiria’s Carley Coma, John LaMacchia on their biggest challenges – “You become your own worst critic”

When I found out that veteran experimental metal band Candiria was heading out on the Vans Warped Tour, I pretty much flipped out. This is a band that, over their 2+ decades of existence, are very hard to quantify. Are they a metal band? Maybe, but there’s plenty of hip-hop. Are they a jazz fusion band? No, too metallic. The best adjective for Candiria is influential, because it’s true. Candiria remains a massive influence on many of today’s top bands, including Emmure, Tesseract, and dozens more. Very thankful to have discovered them in a Guitar World magazine sometime in 2003.

I recently talked to vocalist Carley Coma and guitarist John LaMacchia about the band’s stint on Warped Tour, the infamous van accident that happened 15 years ago, and their signing to Metal Blade Records for their 2016 album While They Were Sleeping. Check it out below.