Celldweller is a Detroit, United States based band that was created by Klayton (formerly created music as the 90's project Circle of Dust), who writes all of the music and performs the majority of vocals and instruments on studio recordings. Celldweller also has a full live band comprised of Klayton (vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion, programming), Dale Van Norman (guitar, keyboard, percussion, backing vocals), Kemikal (bass, guitar, keyboard, percussion, backing vocals), and Caise (drums & percussion). The band's general sound can be described as industrial rock that incorporates elements from hard rock, nu-metal, metalcore, techno, trance and breakbeat. ___________________________________________________
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Klayton has been a part of many bands and side projects over the years, including Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Angeldust, Klank, and Celldweller. His role in many of his earlier bands (such as Circle of Dust) was mixing, producing, and the performance of virtually all instruments. In the case of Klank, he had less direct influence than usual, mainly producing album, but he still co-wrote about half the songs on it. With Celldweller, his latest project, he continues his "one-man band" method of creating music, which he did with every single Circle Of Dust song (on all four releases) and over 90% of the instruments on Argyle Park's Misguided CD.
One of the main reasons that Klayton has been a part of so many bands is his desire to change the type of music he creates whenever he feels it necessary. His first main act, Circle Of Dust, had a very distinct feeling of industrial mixed with heavy metal, though by its final album, it had a noticeably softer and more "gothic" edge to it. His next project, Argyle Park, was a short-lived collaboration between himself and his friend, who goes under the stage name of Buka, and Bukasdead in the actual liner notes to the album. Argyle Park released one critically acclaimed album, Misguided, before Buka(sdead) officially "shut it down". Angeldust, which followed, saw Klayton paired up with showman Criss Angel, Christopher Sarantakos, and while the band did not last long (Angel now releases music under his own name), Klayton once remarked that he learned a lot about making a good live show. His latest band, Celldweller, is very easily distinguished from the rest by the many types of music he has produced, which includes mixes of death metal, trance, techno, and dance. The live show that Scott produces (with the help of additional band members) now includes more use of video and lighting in synch with the music.
The name "Celldweller" is derived from one of Klayton's earlier projects, Brainchild. On Brainchild's Metamorphosis album, one of the tracks is titled "Helldweller". After the album was released, his musician friends joked about the inordinate amount of time he spent in his studio, and as a play off "Helldweller" started calling him "Celldweller". He began using the moniker as producer on Argyle Park's Misguided album (he also participated in this project under the aliases "Deathwish" and "Dred"), released in 1995. His first track recorded as Celldweller (at the time spelled as two words: Cell Dweller) was an ambient reworking of "The Abyss", an instrumental originally recorded by Christian metal band Stryper. Klayton's version of the song was included as the intro on a tribute album to the band, Sweet Family Music: A Tribute to Stryper, jointly released by Liquid Disc and Flying Tart Records in 1996.
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