This caused the label, who refused to release any of their signed bands from contract, to slide into bankruptcy. 1995 would prove to be a busy and chaotic year for Klayton he toured and released a complete re-recording of the self-titled Circle of Dust album while R.E.X., it turned out, was losing its distribution deal. Argyle Park produced one album, Misguided, which was released to both high acclaim and heavy criticism in 1995 and featured a number of collaborators from mainstream industrial rock bands and Christian rock bands alike. 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. had signed without having to write and record a new album. Later, in 1994, the Mindwarp album was re-issued as a Circle of Dust album titled Brainchild to take advantage of a new distribution deal R.E.X. The only Brainchild album, Mindwarp, was released shortly after the debut Circle of Dust album in 1992 and featured even heavier thrash metal influences. The first of these was Brainchild, formed with the president of R.E.X. In between the times of those releases, Klayton created two notable side projects under various aliases and with various collaborators. Despite heavy touring and some notable success in the underground industrial metal scene, Circle of Dust released only two proper albums, those being a self-titled debut in 1992 and a posthumous collection called Disengage in 1998. Records, a small label that concerned itself primarily with underground Christian metal in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Klayton's primary band throughout the 1990s was Circle of Dust, an industrial metal outfit he formed in 1990. Main articles: Circle of Dust and Argyle Park Circle of Dust, Brainchild, and Argyle Park, 1990–present Records, who would later sign Klayton's band Circle of Dust. It was this cassette that got the attention of R.E.X. Immortal was a thrash metal band that put out one demo cassette in the late 1980s. On September 16, 2017, he posted his wedding picture on Facebook. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting, Klayton said that David Fincher's audio commentary on the films Seven and Fight Club have inspired him to record his own audio commentaries for his Beta Cession releases for Wish Upon a Blackstar. Klayton has stated repeatedly that he is a fan of Godzilla and the Kaiju genre in general. He 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. Though Klayton's numerous projects in the early and mid 1990s were signed to Christian record labels and are generally considered Christian bands, Klayton took great pains to distance himself from that distinction and that subculture in the later 1990s by splitting from the CCM industry and forgoing any further performances at Christian venues. In later years, Klayton has referenced European drum'n'bass and Goa/psychedelic trance as influential on the sound of his project Celldweller. All of these would influence Klayton's musical output in the early and mid 1990s, as he melded heavy guitars with layered samples and synths in the handful of industrial metal bands that he formed. In his teenage years, Albert listened to a lot of metal, only later being introduced to electronic music through bands such as Depeche Mode and Skinny Puppy. The first of these instruments was the drums. He took one semester of music theory in college but dropped out, explaining that "all they wanted to tell me is what I could and couldn't do according to the laws of music and I couldn't have cared less." He eventually led to characterizing himself as being a " jack of all trades, master of none" when it came to musical instruments. He graduated from Farmingdale High School. Albert never had formal training on an instrument, instead picking up whatever interested him and learning it himself. Albert grew up in an Italian-American conservative Christian household in New York, where he attended church with his younger brother Dan and friends Buka and Klank (who would collaborate with him on a number of future music projects).
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