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Expanded off the fan remix concept that Klayton first toyed with in 2001 with the Symbiont remixes, the Take It & Break It competition saw the creation of its own website on which unlimited numbers of fans could register, download and remix the individual recording files of various Celldweller songs, and then submit their remixes. In the years following the release of the first Celldweller album, various remix EPs were released, culminating in the conception of the Take It & Break It Celldweller Remix Competition in 2006. Klayton stated that he plans to release Beta Cessions to coincide with each of his major albums to collect outtakes, demos, and other rarities.

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The second disc contained the full debut album in instrumental form, with a few of the instrumentals being slightly edited. The first disc contained a re-recording of the last Circle of Dust song, 'Goodbye', alternate mixes of 'Switchback', the Klayton tracks from the initial Celldweller EP, and demo versions of debut Celldweller songs. In 2004, Klayton put together a double disc release called The Beta Cessions. Later, the songs 'Birthright' and 'Switchback' were included in the list of Hard and Extreme Mode songs respectively for the popular iPhone OS game Tap Tap Revenge. 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'. Celldweller included a guest appearance by Taproot drummer Jarrod Montague. The self-titled debut album saw release in early 2003 and debuted at No. 17 on Billboard's Internet Sales Chart.

The 'Symbiont' remixes became a digital EP six years later. All the exposure led to over 500,000 song plays on Mp3.com. 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. 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. Unfortunately, various delays kept pushing the release date back. Klayton worked in earnest with producer Grant Mohrman (formerly of Leaderdogs for the Blind) on the debut Celldweller album, which was slated for release in February 2001.

Klayton and Chriss Angel parted ways in May of 2000 after three albums' worth of material had been completed, allowing Klayton to devote all of his time to Celldweller. Klayton began creating songs for the Celldweller project in 1998/1999 and released a limited edition EP of three early Celldweller demos and two solo trance tracks, which quickly sold out. This change in style was a major step toward the sound that would come to define Celldweller's output. Both albums demonstrated Klayton's shift away from industrial metal and towards more electronic-modern industrial rock influences, incorporating richer electronic instrumentation and greater emphasis on melody. After the dissolution of Circle of Dust, Klayton concurrently released both a posthumous collection of reworked Circle of Dust leftovers titled Disengage and an album for a new project, Angeldust, created in conjunction with illusionist Criss Angel. Klayton had gained a devoted cult following in the mid 90s because of his industrial metal band Circle of Dust. The name Celldweller was derived from a nickname his mother gave him when he was a teenager, dubbed 'Cellar Dweller', as he made all of his music in his parents' basement. 1.5 Space and Time and Offworld (2016–2017)Ĭareer Precursors: Circle of Dust and Angeldust (1992–1999).1.4 Blackstar and End of an Empire (2013–2015).1.1 Precursors: Circle of Dust and Angeldust (1992–1999).