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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | May 19th 15 |
This album is a charming fusion of metalcore, jazz, hip hop, and punk, which should be plain and simple enough... until you actually go out of your way to listen to What Doesn't Kill You Will Make You Stronger. The New York-based band Candiria aren't sweating the small details and clearly reveal themselves to be more than just above-average musicians. Frontman Carley Coma has this mildly distinctive quality to his vocals that never leaves the mind, and the rhythm section is gobsmackingly great, making for some rather inebriating moments. The songwriting is a little hit-and-miss here, though nothing about the compositions hurt this group's overall performance as much as one would expect. "The Rutherford Experiment" is marvelous by virtually all accounts.
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| 3.5 great | StrizzMatik | October 8th 09 |
It's pretty disgusting when a band as revolutionary in sound as Candiria is gets absolutely no respect or recognition outside of the NYC hardcore fans. Candiria showed everyone on this record that they had quite the melodic side as well, mixing their mathy hardcore-meets-jazz-meets-metal sound with some honest-to-God pop sensibilities ("Remove Yourself" is INSANELY catchy). Carley Coma's vocals improved tenfold, capable of going from guttural roars into smooth melodic crooning. The band themselves have become even better, with Kenneth Schalk laying down some truly awe-inspiring grooves amidst the crazy technical drumming. Newcomer Micheal MacIvor's bass lines provided a newfound melodic counterpoint to John LaMacchia and Eric Matthew's palm-muted angular riffs. While labeled by many as a "sell-out" (and there are definitely cheesier moments that are clearly trying to be overtly radio-friendly), What Doesn't Kill You... brought a whole new dish to Candiria's table, which contributed to the alt-metal assault of their final record (and IMO, magnum opus), Kiss The Lie. So yeah get this.
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| 3.0 good | borkle | February 16th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zac124 | February 7th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | luetin | January 11th 22 |
| 3.0 good | LordPH | August 8th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | El Olam | September 10th 20 |
| 2.5 average | nbats | April 11th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | misho87 | November 28th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Trey STAFF | October 4th 16 |
| 3.5 great | ZoneOut | December 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Apollo | February 7th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziz | February 16th 11 |
| 2.5 average | VJ90 | September 10th 10 |
| 3.0 good | 76TVs | July 21st 10 |
| 3.5 great | GibTG | April 9th 10 |
| 3.0 good | x31942 | January 30th 10 |
| 3.5 great | yontar | September 4th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Salami | September 25th 07 |
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