celldweller wish upon a blackstar album rar

Those older tracks hold up great, and my favorite tracks are among both old and new songs. It’s a bit difficult for me to get an objective view on it though, since I heard the first parts of it three years ago. This is both good and bad, as I love the crazy mix of the debut, but I also enjoy the more developed Celldweller.So, this is a different beast than the debut, but it is a worthy follow-up. The debut album was even more varied though, as this album has a more coherent “Celldweller style”. We get furious rock, dubby electronic tracks and slow ambient linking pieces. Fat basslines squirms underneath guitar riffs, heavy but snappy breakbeats and the sleek, clean vocals by Klayton himself.Thanks to its intriguing blend of genres, this album is a rare beast that might attract fans from both the electronic and metal camps. It works surprisingly well, and Klayton’s production skills are second to none. Usually I’m not a big fan of such long albums but since I’ve been fed parts of it over a long time, I’ve had the chance to digest it.Klayton and Celldweller has almost cut out his own genre these days, roughly described as a mix between hardcore electronic music, dubstep and melodic rock/metal. After four parts, we can now finally listen to the finished result, complete with 17 (!) tracks – that means almost an album’s worth of previously unheard songs as well. Since then it’s been a looong wait, until 2009 when he realized that it we would have to wait an unfeasibly long time for the follow-up, so he decided to release it in chapters with two songs at the time. Melody comes mainly from synth lines and vocal layers, all of which are sung by Klayton himself.Klayton released the first, brilliant album under the name Celldweller in 2003. Overall the percussion resembles a march (it may be a death march, considering the lyrics).Ī bassline is made by what seems to be distorted, cranked up bass guitar (a signature feature of Klayton’s production).

Only between lines of the chorus and the intro occurs more complex drumming.

Hi-hats get more numerous in the pre-choruses and later parts of the bridge. The beat is mainly kept simple with a kick drum every beat and an additional snare every second beat, all of them electronic. The song was given away for free when the complete album was released. Lyrically, it fits in the narrative of the “ Blackstar universe” but could also easily be interpreted as a warning to everyone who blindly follows powerful people. “Blackstar” is a melodic rock song with a steady electronic beat and singalong lyrics describing how aliens, worshipped by inhibitants, destroy everything in the latters' lives while still being blindly praised by them.

Celldweller wish upon a blackstar album rar