Sam McCandless

Sam McCandless
Birth name	Samuel Alan McCandless
Born	(1978-01-28) January 28, 1978
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Drums
Associated acts	Cold, Carny

Sam McCandless is an American musician, producer, and artist. He is the founding member and drummer for the Jacksonville, Florida (US) hard rock band Cold^[1] and Austin, Texas (US) Psychedelic blues band Carny. With McCandless, Cold has released five albums of which two have been RIAA Certified Gold and one RIAA Certified Platinum soundtrack album for A Walk to Remember. He is one of only two original members left in the band, the other being lead vocalist Scooter Ward.

McCandless was responsible for the design of the band's Spider logo which was influenced by Cold's "Oddity" EP cover (photographed by McCandless' wife Georgia von Eberstein of their pet spider "Wednesday"). The Spider Logo is now tattooed on thousands of Cold fans and is the trademark of the band. Sam McCandless has worked with producer, guitarist Paul Leary, of Butthole Surfers producer of Sublime and singer, songwriter Formica Iglesia also of the band Carny.

References

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Biography: Cold". AMG. Retrieved May 12, 2010.

Cold

Scooter Ward Zach Gilbert Drew Molleur Terry Balsamo Sam McCandless Kelly Hayes Jeremy Marshall Matt Loughran Eddie Rendini Mike Booth Joe Bennett Sean Lay Michael Harris

Studio albums	Cold 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage Year of the Spider A Different Kind of Pain Superfiction

EPs	Oddity EP Project 13 Something Wicked This Way Comes Acoustic EP

Singles	"Go Away" "Give" "Just Got Wicked" "Confession" "No One" "End of the World" "Bleed" "Gone Away" "Stupid Girl" "Suffocate" "Happens All the Time" "A Different Kind of Pain" "Wicked World"

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