History YMMV / Celldweller

* {{Tearjerker}}: "Against the Tide", "One Good Reason", "Precious One", "Just Like You"... just to name a few.

* [[TrollingCreator]]: Klayton has a tendency to unceremoniously abandon/delay projects, often ''well'' after they've already been announced or hyped up. The ''Cellout'' series of [=EPs=] was abandoned rather abruptly because of this, never making it past ''Vol. 1''.

* NeverLiveItDown: Since ''[[ExtremelyLengthyCreation Wish Upon a Blackstar]]'', people don't exactly trust him when it comes to releasing new music.

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Resurrecting Circle of Dust.

** ''[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse SVH Vol. 3]]'' certainly isn't helping.

* NeverLiveItDown: Since ''[[ExtremelyLongCreation Wish Upon a Blackstar]]'', people don't exactly trust him when it comes to releasing new music.

** The [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt implied ending]] of ''End of an Empire''; [[WellIntentionedExtremist The Emperor]] is dead, the people's revolt [[PyrrhicVictory leaves Atiria in ruins]], and what's left has been [[FromBadToWorse marked for death]] by pretty much ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill every]]'' deity in the universe.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Celldweller owes its status as the EnsembleDarkhorse of NuMetal and IndustrialMetal to the sheer awesomeness of a huge majority of the project's output. The project's contributions to the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' (2005) soundtrack, with "One Good Reason" and "Shapeshifter", are perhaps the most well-known among metalheads, among many others. ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' had most of its soundtrack done by Celldweller ("Own Little World" in particular stands out), and even ''VideoGame/{{Forza}}'' had a song by them, "Solaris", a dark ambient instrumental, which is REALLY awesome.
** "Afraid This Time" may be one of the best metal ballads ever recorded.
** Along with Atlas Plug, Celldweller is now producing the music for the 3rd season of ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', and the four tracks previewed thus far (Rash, Kim Wu, Arbiter, and Tusk's themes) have been received with much praise from the fandom.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: He's one of the very few NuMetal artists that isn't completely despised by Metal-Heads everywhere. Many of them call him, "LinkinPark if they had more talent."

* SignatureSong: "Switchback", "Own Little World", "Eon", "Unshakeable".

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Celldweller owes its status as the EnsembleDarkhorse of NuMetal and IndustrialMetal to the sheer awesomeness of a huge majority of the project's output. The project's contributions to the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' (2005) soundtrack, with "One Good Reason" and "Shapeshifter", are perhaps the most well-known among metalheads, among many others. ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' had most of its soundtrack done by Celldweller ("Own Little World" in particular stands out), and even ''ForzaMotorsport'' had a song by them, "Solaris", a dark ambient instrumental, which is REALLY awesome.

* HoYay: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hilariously]] {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a Website/{{Ustream}} session, one chat member asked him if he ''bummed''[[labelnote:*]]being a british slang term for anal sex[[/labelnote]] [[Music/BlueStahli Bret]]. He avoided the question completely and just rambled on about how he used to watch Creator/MontyPython and how he wishes he was british.

** Along with Atlas Plug, Celldweller is now producing the music for the 3rd season of ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', and the four tracks previewed thus far have been received with much praise from the fandom.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Celldweller owes its status as the EnsembleDarkhorse of NuMetal and IndustrialMetal to the sheer awesomeness of a huge majority of the project's output. The project's contributions to the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Most Wanted (2005)'' soundtrack, with "One Good Reason" and "Shapeshifter", are perhaps the most well-known among metalheads, among many others. ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' had most of its soundtrack done by Celldweller ("Own Little World" in particular stands out), and even ''ForzaMotorsport'' had a song by them, "Solaris", a dark ambient instrumental, which is REALLY awesome.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He's one of the very few NuMetal artists that isn't completely despised by Metal-Heads everywhere. Many of them call him, "LinkinPark if they had talent."

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Since the mid-2000s some very vocal members of the HateDumb have begun complaining about the proliferation of his music in numerous video game and motion picture productions.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Celldweller owes its status as the EnsembleDarkhorse of NuMetal and IndustrialMetal to the sheer awesomeness of a huge majority of the project's output. The project's contributions to the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Most Wanted (2005)'' soundtrack, with "One Good Reason" and "Shapeshifter", are perhaps the most well-known among metalheads, among many others. ''DeadRising2'' had most of its soundtrack done by Celldweller ("Own Little World" in particular stands out), and even ''ForzaMotorsport'' had a song by them, "Solaris", a dark ambient instrumental, which is REALLY awesome.

* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Oh yeah.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He's one of the very few NuMetal artists that isn't completely despised by Metal-Heads everywhere. Many of them call him, "LinkinPark is they had talent."

* GrandTheftAutoEffect

* SignatureSong: "Switchback", "Own Little World", "Eon", "Unshakeable".

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Celldweller owes its status as the EnsembleDarkhorse of NuMetal and IndustrialMetal to the sheer awesomeness of a huge majority of the project's output. The project's contributions to the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Most Wanted (2005)'' soundtrack are perhaps the most well-known among metalheads, among many others...