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“I can tell you that it was the most violent and intense moment I’ve ever experienced” says Candiria bassist Michael MacIvor. MacIvor is referring to the Sept 9th, 2002 van accident that almost ended the career (and the lives) of the musicians in this seminal Brooklyn band. The band was driving to Cleveland as part of relentless touring in support of their then current record - The Coma Imprint. MacIvor continues “The memories of the van crushing down around me and being pelted with glass and metal are permanently etched into my mind. Apparently the eighteen wheel tractor-trailer didn’t see our 20’ vehicle. It drove right through our equipment trailer till it rear-ended the back of the van where a few of us were sleeping. The impact was so great that the van flipped over several times -skidding, roof-down for about 75 yards before coming to a halt. In the process Eric, John and I all were thrown through different windows of the vehicle.”

The accident resulted in all of th...