Celldweller (album)

Celldweller
Studio album by Celldweller
Released	February 11, 2003
Genre	Electronic rock Drum & Bass Industrial Metal Trance Electronica
Length	69:48
Label	Position
Producer	Klayton Grant Mohrman
Celldweller chronology
Celldweller EP (1999) Celldweller (2003) The Beta Cessions (2004)
Singles from Celldweller
"Switchback" Released: February 2003

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Sputnikmusic	[2]

Celldweller is the 2003 self-titled debut album by American Electronic Rock band, Celldweller. The album spent one week on the Billboard Top Internet Albums chart, at number 17,^[3] and the song "I Believe You" reached number 11 on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart.^{[citation needed]} Celldweller was awarded Album of the Year at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards.^[4] Guest appearances include Jarrod Montague of Taproot.

Background

Klayton worked in earnest with producer Grant Mormhan (formerly of Leaderdogs For The Blind) on the debut album, which was slated for release in February 2001. There had been multiple questions about any Celldweller songs to be released. Although, Klayton was having three albums from his former project Angeldust rereleased under Criss Angel's name, he has begun working on the album. Klayton agreed to various online companies to put songs that were to be on the album, but never made it into the final cut, for download in high quality.^[5]

Unfortunately, various delays kept pushing the release date back.^[6] During this time, Klayton kept fans up to date with numerous Celldweller Logs through his website and via email and, in 2001, released raw files of the song "Symbiont" to give fans and fellow musicians a chance to remix Celldweller's music.^[7] Eight remixes were chosen and uploaded to the original Mp3.com, most of them making it to the top of the Electronic and the Electro-Industrial charts. All the exposure led to over 500,000 song plays on Mp3.com.^{[citation needed]} The "Symbiont" remixes became a digital EP six years later.

The self-titled debut album saw release in early 2003 and debuted at #17 on Billboard's Internet Sales Chart.^[8] Celldweller included a guest appearance by Taproot drummer Jarrod Montague. In 2004, the album took home seven awards at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, winning Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Industrial Album of the Year, Metal Song of the Year ("One Good Reason") and Best Industrial Rock Song ("Switchback"), and also took runner-up in Best Industrial Song with "Stay with Me (Unlikely)" and Best Rock Song with "I Believe You".^[4] Prior to the album's release, "Symbiont" was used in Track Down. However, the distributor of the film was mistakenly credited as "Miramax". Later, the song "Switchback" was included in the list of Extreme Mode songs for the popular iPhone OS game Tap Tap Revenge.

Track listing

All songs written by Klayton.

1. "Cell #1" – 0:29
2. "Switchback" – 5:02
3. "Stay With Me (Unlikely)" – 3:41
4. "The Last Firstborn" – 7:41
5. "Under My Feet" – 3:30
6. "I Believe You" – 3:26
7. "Frozen" – 7:00
8. "Symbiont" – 5:27
9. "Afraid This Time" – 4:59
10. "Fadeaway" – 4:47
11. "Cell #2" – 0:21
12. "So Sorry to Say" – 5:33
13. "Own Little World" – 3:33
14. "Unlikely (Stay With Me)" – 2:59
15. "One Good Reason" – 3:53
16. "The Stars of Orion" – 2:56
17. "Cell #3" – 0:32
18. "Welcome to the End" – 4:00

Chart positions

Album

Chart (2003)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Album Sales	17

Singles

Year	Song	Peak positions
2003	"I Believe You"	11
2003	"Switchback"	-

Additional personnel

• Ben Grosse – Mixing
• Richard Hunt – Editing
• Kennedy James – Drums
• Grant Mohrman – Acoustic guitar, producer, engineer, mixing
• Jarrod Montague – Drums
• Fluffy Starr - Female vocals on "Frozen", "The Stars of Orion", and "Welcome to the End"
• Christina Wheeler
• Erik Wolf – Mastering

Licensing

Every song on Celldweller has been licensed at least once for a movie, video game or another form of media with titles including Doom, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Supercross, XXX: State of the Union, Spider-Man 2, Constantine, Catwoman, The Punisher, Paycheck, Timeline, Mindhunters, National Security, Bad Boys II, Redline, Project Gotham Racing 3, NHL 2003, Enter the Matrix, XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Crackdown, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, America's Next Top Model and Pimp My Ride. This is a feat that has been accomplished by only two other artists; Moby and The Crystal Method.^{[citation needed]}

• "Cell #1", "Switchback" and "Welcome to the End" were featured in episode 11 of the American drama television series: Dirt. "Welcome to the End" was also featured in episode 2 of the same series.
• "The instrumental of "One Good Reason" is included on Need for Speed: Most Wanted's soundtrack. It also appears on Flint Michigan's Rock Radio Station, "Banana 101.5" during some of the commercials.^{[citation needed]}
• "Afraid This Time", "The Last Firstborn", "So Sorry To Say", "Fadeaway" and "Frozen" were all featured in the 2007 video game Crackdown.
• "Own Little World", "One Good Reason", "The Last Firstborn" and "The Stars of Orion" were included in the 2003 video game XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association.
• Switchback is considered the most popular song Celldweller has ever released.^{[citation needed]} Switchback has been used in films, games, commercials, and other sources such as Out for a Kill, Enter The Matrix, Halloween: Resurrection, Doom, Spider-Man 2, Catwoman, The Punisher, Bring It On Again, Kart Racer, Project Gotham Racing 3, NHL 2003, Tap Tap, and Bad Boys 2. It has also been used in certain episodes of World Extreme Cagefighting^{[citation needed]}
• Symbiont has been used in Enter The Matrix, Takedown, Cutaway, Rallisport Challenge 2, Wrecked, Airbrush Alchemy, 21, and Road Rash – Jailbreak.
• "Own Little World", "Switchback", "I Believe You" and "Eon" are used in the 2010 video game Dead Rising 2. *"Own Little World (Klayton's We Will Never Die remix)" has been played live by Celldweller, and incorporates the Dubstep Genre. A studio version was previewed on 26 November 2010, and Fixtstore.com crashed due to the amount of people trying to download it.

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/25056/Celldweller-Celldweller/
3. ^ Billboard
4. ^ ^{a b} "2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards". 7 November 2004. http://www.jpfolks.com/MusicAwards/2004/FoundersAwards.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-10. 
5. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/19991013002108/celldweller.com/currentinfo.html
6. ^ "Celldweller current info 29 October 2002". Archived from the original on 29 October 2002. http://web.archive.org/web/20021029181051/celldweller.com/currentinfo.html. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 
7. ^ "Celldweller current info 1 June 2000". Archived from the original on 1 June 2000. http://web.archive.org/web/20001209081800/celldweller.com/currentinfo.html. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 
8. ^ Celldweller ranking at Billboard