Wish Upon a Blackstar
| Wish Upon a Blackstar | ||||
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| Studio album by Celldweller | ||||
| Released | June 12, 2012 August 25, 2009 (Chapter 01) December 8, 2009 (Chapter 02) July 26, 2010 (Chapter 03) June 27, 2011 (Chapter 04) June 12, 2012(Chapter 05) |
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| Recorded | 2004-April 2, 2012 | |||
| Genre | Electronic rock, industrial metal, drum and bass, trance, electronica, alternative rock, electro house, dubstep, nu metal | |||
| Length |
74:22 (Standard Edition) 148:29 (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Label | FiXT Music | |||
| Producer | Klayton, Grant Mohrman | |||
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Deluxe Edition cover
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| Wish Upon a Blackstar: Chapter 01 | |
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| Studio album by Celldweller | |
| Released | 25 August 2009 |
| Length | 21:34 |
| Label | FiXT Music |
| Producer | Klayton, Grant Mohrman |
| Wish Upon a Blackstar: Chapter 02 | |
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| Studio album by Celldweller | |
| Released | 8 December 2009 |
| Length | 23:35 |
| Label | FiXT Music |
| Producer | Klayton, Grant Mohrman |
| Wish Upon a Blackstar: Chapter 03 | |
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| Studio album by Celldweller | |
| Released | 26 July 2010 |
| Length | 22:58 |
| Label | FiXT Music |
| Producer | Klayton, Grant Mohrman |
| Wish Upon a Blackstar: Chapter 04 | |
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| Studio album by Celldweller | |
| Released | 27 June 2011 |
| Length | 22:42 |
| Label | FiXT Music |
| Producer | Klayton, Grant Mohrman |
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| Allmusic |    |
| Fearnet | (positive) |
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| Terrorizer | |
Wish Upon a Blackstar is the second vocal album (third overall) from American electronic rock project, Celldweller. While the album had been a work in progress since 2004, finalized songs from the album were not released until mid-2009. The full album was released on June 12, 2012. Grant Mohrman, producer of the debut Celldweller album, returned to co-produce the album with Klayton.
Klayton began to work on the album in 2004, originally slated for release in the summer of 2006, the album was delayed numerous times. In a late 2008 interview, he stated that:
"I would love to just tell everyone 'The album will be done by this date,' but I've learned my lesson on that one. It's hard to predict when it will actually wrap up. I can tell you that I am thinking about alternative methods of releasing this album altogether, but I won't say anything until I'm ready to commit... that always gets me in trouble."
On March 9, 2009, Klayton announced that the album would be titled Wish Upon a Blackstar and he revealed the track listing on April 20, 2009.
In contrast to the debut Celldweller album, where Klayton always tracked the vocals last,Wish Upon a Blackstar was produced vice versa:
"[...] the process for this album is totally different than any other I've done. So, that being said, I've recorded all the final vocals first. That has usually been the last step for me, but I wanted to put more of an emphasis on vocals on this album, so [co-producer] Grant Mohrman and I agreed that I would cut vocals first and build everything else around them."
Klayton later announced that he chose to break up the album into five Chapters, instead of releasing a standard CD album after all production has wrapped:
"I fully embrace the idea of releasing one song at a time. Waiting years for a full album is cool and all, but times have changed. I can wrap a track in my studio and have it blaring out of your speakers literally the next day if so desired. I had some specific reasons I was planning on releasing [Wish Upon a Blackstar] as a full body of work, but I abandoned that a long time ago when I embraced just how much work I've created for myself with this album. I just don't totally feel right about releasing one song at a time for this album, but I have no intentions of waiting 'til I'm done with the whole thing either. So, I'm releasing the album in Chapters. [...] The fifth and final Chapter will be reserved for the CD, so both the artwork and the [...] remaining songs will be released for the first time on the physical CD".
The first four Chapters were released as digital downloads only and they were available in two editions:
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