Sam McCandless

Who is Sam McCandless?

Sam McCandless is an American musician, producer and artist. He is the founding member and drummer for the Jacksonville, Florida hard rock band Cold and Austin, Texas 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.

McCandless was responsible for the design of the band's Spider logo which was influenced by Cold's "Oddity" EP cover. 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.