Line #10 YMMV/Celldweller


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: 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.
2	** "Afraid This Time" may be one of the best metal ballads ever recorded.
3	** 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.
4	* BrokenBase: There is a healthy amount of fans that like both the old and the new Celldweller, but there is also a very vocal part of the fanbase still waiting for another album like the self-titled debut. Starting to incorporate electronic elements more heavily turned a portion of the fanbase off, and he was even accused of selling out when he started doing dubstep. It seems some naysayers have come around with ''End of an Empire'', though.
5	** His most recent album, ''Offworld'', has also earned somewhat mixed reception. Not for the LighterAndSofter direction, but for the fact that only half the songs are originals, while the rest are either remixes of Circle Of Dust and Scandroid material, or covers of other artists.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: He's one of the very few NuMetal artists that isn't either considered a GuiltyPleasure for or completely despised by Metal-Heads everywhere. Many of them call him, "Music/LinkinPark if they had more talent."
7	* HilariousInHindsight: One of the many abandoned projects during the ''Wish Upon a Blackstar'' era was a music video... for "I Can't Wait".
8	* HoYay: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Hilariously]] {{Subverted\|Trope}}. In a 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.
9	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Since the mid-2000s some [[VocalMinority very vocal fans]] have begun complaining about the proliferation of his music in numerous video game and motion picture productions.
10	* MorePopularSpinOff: From Circle of Dust, to the point where most of their fans started off listening to Celldweller.
11	** Klayton [[HesBack restarting]] Circle of Dust may change this, though.
12	* NarmCharm: "Heart On", basically one of those SillyLoveSongs... albeit given the typical aggressive industrial rock edge Klayton's known for. On paper it sounds ridiculous, but the actual song is not only rather catchy, it still manages to achieve the intended effect.
13	** "Good L_ck (Yo_'re F_cked)" also counts, being a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in music form, with Klayton unleashing an unrelenting barrage of lyrics that make it clear whoever wronged him is going to ''really'' suffer when that retribution arrives. The lyrics are somewhat silly, but don't detract from the sheer RAGE in them.
14	* NeverLiveItDown: Since ''[[ExtremelyLengthyCreation Wish Upon a Blackstar]]'', people don't exactly trust him when it comes to releasing new music... or videos... or anything, for that matter.
15	** ''[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse SVH Vol. 3]]'' certainly isn't helping. Although he did finally release it in September 2016.
16	* NightmareFuel: "Tainted". Especially given how easily it could be interpreted a [[RapeAsDrama certain way]]...
17	** "One Good Reason", a SanitySlippageSong with ten times more RageBreakingPoint than usual. Fittingly, it's also one of the heaviest songs in his discography (as Celldweller, at least).
18	** The promotional video for ''End of an Empire: Love''; the heart logo is drawn on a console... with blood.
19	** The "alt_Human" video for Circle of Dust is filled with shots of dead animals, surgical procedures, blood and circuitry. The song itself is a critique of genetic modification.
20	*** Hell, ''Machines of our Disgrace'' as a whole is pretty creepy, covering themes such as body augmentation, chemical warfare, surveillance, our dependence on technology, etc.
21	** "The Angel of iO", one of the few vocal tracks from ''SVH Vol. 1''. You get the impression that the first half was meant for a horror movie. Towards the beginning and end, parts of the track are slightly out of sync, and for the first half, the synths and vocals are kinda muffled, as if it's underwater or playing through a wall.
22	** "The Last Firstborn".
23	* SignatureSong: "Shapeshifter" stands out even for non-fans, due to being featured in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted''. Outside of that, fans deem either "Switchback", "Own Little World", "Eon", "Unshakeable", or "End of an Empire" as this.
24	* {{Tearjerker}}: "Against the Tide", "One Good Reason", "Fadeaway", "Precious One", "Just Like You"... just to name a few.
25	** "Tainted"... just... oh, god...
26	-->''"[[DrivenToSuicide This time she finally feels like she's coming home...]]"''
27	** The [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt implied ending]] of ''End of an Empire''; [[spoiler:[[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.]]
28	** "[[DrivenToSuicide The Gre]][[TheLostLenore at Divide]]". Although, sonically, it's SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel, [[LyricalDissonance lyrically?]]
29	-->''It's always the same / Mourn for a life we can never reclaim\
30	As time drifts away / We search for the reasons we can't make it stay''
31	* VindicatedByHistory: His hatedom from the mid-2000s over his popularity has died down and he has become well-respected after the heavy music fandom turned its sights [[{{Crunkcore}} on]] [[{{Deathcore}} other]] [[{{Dubstep}} genres]].

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