Top tracks
Listeners also bought
Other Alternative Metal albums
Other Industrial Metal albums
Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Celldweller by Celldweller
view larger image
fave it Alternative Metal | Industrial Metal
18 tracks | 69 minutes
Released Jan 2003
on Esion Media / Position Music
Click
for a 30-second preview. All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality. Protected WMA $0.77 or unprotected MP3 $0.88.
listen album 30sec. shuffle buy CD review album promote album
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:28 Cell #1 lyrics BUY MP3 00:28 Cell #1 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:28 Cell #1
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:02 Switchback lyrics BUY MP3 05:02 Switchback lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:02 Switchback
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:41 Stay With Me (Unlikely) lyrics BUY MP3 03:41 Stay With Me (Unlikely) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:41 Stay With Me (Unlikely)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:41 The Last Firstborn lyrics BUY MP3 07:41 The Last Firstborn lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:41 The Last Firstborn
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Under My Feet lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 Under My Feet lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Under My Feet
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:26 I Believe You lyrics BUY MP3 03:26 I Believe You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:26 I Believe You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:00 Frozen lyrics BUY MP3 07:00 Frozen lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:00 Frozen
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:27 Symbiont lyrics BUY MP3 05:27 Symbiont lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:27 Symbiont
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:59 Afraid This Time lyrics BUY MP3 04:59 Afraid This Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:59 Afraid This Time
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:47 Fadeaway lyrics BUY MP3 04:47 Fadeaway lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:47 Fadeaway
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:21 Cell #2 lyrics BUY MP3 00:21 Cell #2 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:21 Cell #2
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:33 So Sorry to Say lyrics BUY MP3 05:33 So Sorry to Say lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:33 So Sorry to Say
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Own Little World lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Own Little World lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Own Little World
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Unlikely (Stay With Me) lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Unlikely (Stay With Me) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Unlikely (Stay With Me)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:52 One Good Reason lyrics BUY MP3 03:52 One Good Reason lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:52 One Good Reason
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:56 The Stars of Orion lyrics BUY MP3 02:56 The Stars of Orion lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:56 The Stars of Orion
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:32 Cell #3 lyrics BUY MP3 00:32 Cell #3 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:32 Cell #3
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 Welcome to the End lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 Welcome to the End lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 Welcome to the End
The debut album ranges from guitar-based electronic rock to the unique blending of heavily distorted guitars and aggression with drum & bass and trance
Editorial review
The brain behind Celldweller is Klayton (aka Klay Scott, aka Eric Klayton). The producer, songwriter, performer, and musical gypsy has been associated with numerous projects, including the Christian industrial outfits Circle of Dust and Argyle Park. As a producer, Klayton has worked with Prong and is involved with New York-based illusionist Criss Angel. Celldweller derives its name partly from the long hours Klayton spent in his home studio crafting its elaborate, production-heavy cocktail of trance, drum'n'bass, and heavy industrial guitar. The project ranges from the aggressive, X Games-style active rock of "Switchback" to the emotive, melodic "Afraid This Time," which recalls the crystalline style of fellow production whiz kid BT. Klayton's industrial background is evident in his vocals, which alternate between throaty yelling and a half-whisper. The album is strikingly melodic, with hooks galore, even on the overdriven metal of "One Good Reason." And Klayton's obvious debt to Trent Reznor can be forgiven, since it's difficult <i>not</i> to emulate the iconographic musician in a genre that he redefined. However, while Reznor's obsessively produced music still bleeds reality, Celldweller suffers from too much refinement. It's almost as if a rogue ProTools rig conceived and produced the album itself, in some sort of nightmare combination of 2001 and Demond Seed. Klayton's humanity barely registers behind elaborate vocal processing, lush beds of trance-y keyboards, and rarefied edges on Celldweller's towering walls of guitar. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Celldweller - the concept born from experiences of personal and cultural bondage along with the creator's near 24-7 dwelling in his former basement studio. Klayton, the man behind the machine, originally created the moniker as a producer pseudonym. However, after retiring his previous band, the 90's cult industrial act Circle of Dust, he adopted Celldweller as his defining outlet.
Developed as an agent of contrast, Celldweller combines the electronic and the organic, darkness and beauty, aggression against sensuality, with the ability to find its home in the mosh pit as easily as on the dj's turntable. The debut album ranges from the guitar-based electronic rock of "Switchback" and "I Believe You" to the unique blending of heavily distorted guitars and aggression with drum & bass and trance in "The Last Firstborn" and "Own Little World.
↓ more ↓" The styles are further contrasted by the electro-orchestral Depeche Mode-esque "So Sorry to Say" and the hauntingly beautiful down tempo track "Welcome to the End."
The Celldweller album, released independently, debuted at #17 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart and won Album of the Year honors at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards. The album has garnered Top 40 Metal Radio charting and "I Believe You" reached #11 on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart. Guest appearances include Jarrod Montague of Taproot, Kenny James, Fluffy Starr, and mixes by Ben Grosse and Grant Mohrman.
The Celldweller live show is a fusion of performance art, rave culture, and the raw energy of a rock show, entirely synchronized to projected video. Brought to life by members Klayton (Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion, Eyris, Programming), Dale Van Norman (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals) and Kem (Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals), the show is driven by multi-instrumental performances, including mass percussion ensembles, reminiscent of Blue Man Group or Stomp, with the incorporation of trance/electronic elements.
The artist, performer, producer, songwriter, programmer, and re-mixer Klayton has an extensive musical history beginning in the early nineties, with work on such projects as: Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Chatterbox, Criss Angel, Level, Klank, AP2, and Prong. Klayton took home 7 awards at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, including, Producer of the Year, Album of the Year, #1 Industrial Song of the Year, and #1 Metal Song of the Year.
Klayton has also captured the interest of the Film/TV industry having licensed every track from the Debut Celldweller album. Credits include: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "XXX: State of the Union," "Spider-man 2," "Constantine," "Catwoman," "The Punisher," "Paycheck," "Timeline," "Mindhunters," "National Security," "Bad Boys 2," "Enter the Matrix" (Video Game), "Project Gotham Racing 3," "Need For Speed: Most Wanted," "XGRA," and "Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel."
In addition to the debut release, Celldweller has released a 2-disc fan set entitled The Beta Cessions. The album features instrumental versions of the debut album, original demos, remixes, and alternative album mixes, including "Switchback" mixed by Ben Grosse, the original "Under My Feet" demo, and a new recording of "Goodbye," the last Circle of Dust song ever written. Celldweller has also released a DVD for the music video, "Switchback." The video was produced, directed, and edited by Klayton, and is now receiving national airplay.
Celldweller is endorsed by Mesa Boogie, Firewire Strings, Korg and Rusk.
Visit the Celldweller Message board: Cellblock454.com
Visit the Celldweller Myspace page: Myspace.com/Celldweller
Management:
Tyler Bacon / James Rhodes - Position Music
Tel: 310-442-8170 Fax: 310-442-8180
management@positionmusic.com
↑ less ↑Average Customer Review: 5
Nice oneatenori wrote on January 15, 2008
Just like I love - pure power of heavy riffs, clean vocal, lots of electronics. It kept me in suspense while listening.
5 Starstearsofsadnessseen wrote on January 08, 2008
This is an amazing album. The whole album is great.
Wowbslewis wrote on December 02, 2008
First time I heard this album, I knew I was going to stick with this band for the rest of their career. Not may albums are this good.












![HUMAN INDU[B]STRIAL](http://images.payplay.fm/d/e/deflore/40/deflore.jpg)

