17 Facts About Klayton

Klayton has led several electronic bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s.

Klayton described this move and the reasoning behind it to great length in a 1998 interview with Christian metal publication HM Magazine and has reiterated his stance in more recent Celldweller interviews.

Klayton has stated repeatedly that he is a fan of Godzilla and the Kaiju genre in general.

In between the times of those releases, Klayton created two notable side projects under various aliases and with various collaborators.

That same year, Klayton co-formed, along with the mysterious musician Buka, the supergroup Argyle Park, arguably the most controversial Christian industrial metal band in the short history of the genre.

Later that year, Klayton decided to end Circle of Dust and find new means of creating and releasing music.

However, by 2000, all mention of Klayton had been erased from the Criss Angel website and a complete trilogy of albums, including a re-issue of the first album, were released only under the name Criss Angel as the extended soundtrack for his Amystika show.

Klayton later explained that it had become apparent to the two that they were better off working on their own projects.

Several years later it appeared that the two had made amends, as Klayton recorded and remixed a new theme song for Angel's Mindfreak show in 2006.

Klayton, previously having used Celldweller only as an occasional production moniker, turned the entity into a full-fledged solo band after parting ways with Criss Angel in 1999 and released a five-song limited edition teaser EP that same year.

Klayton has been working on the second Celldweller album, Wish Upon a Blackstar, for the past four or five years and recently announced the release method, which involves publishing the album digitally in chapters of two songs each over time as he finishes the songs in the studio.

Klayton wrote two songs for the album, while LVL wrote the bulk of the album.

The second video was later uploaded on July 30,2013, along with Klayton making a post on both his and the new Scandroid social pages to confirm that the project will consist of both him and Varien, who had made the same post.

In early 2013, Klayton announced FiXT would be publishing a novel by Josh Viola called Blackstar, which is based on Klayton's Wish Upon a Blackstar album.

Klayton appeared under a number of pseudonyms during the 1990s before settling on the moniker Klayton in 1999.

Klayton used his birth name, Scott Albert, for Immortal and for Circle of Dust through their touring years, up until 1995.

Again, in 1996, Klayton appeared on a tribute to Stryper under the slightly altered name Cell Dweller.