Circle of Dust is the 1992 self-titled debut album of Industrial Rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 band Circle Of Dust

Circle of Dust

Circle of Dust were a 1990s Industrial rock band created and run by Klayton who is now more widely known for his solo band Celldweller. Circle of Dust was, along with contemporaries Mortal and Deitiphobia, instrumental in bringing industrial metal to the Christian alternative metal scene...

. All songs were written by Klayton

Klayton

Scott Albert, now known as Klayton, is a multi-instrumentalist musician formerly of New York City and currently of Detroit, Michigan who has led several cult status underground bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s...

, then known by his birth name "Scott Albert". The album was initially released in 1992 through R.E.X. Records

R.E.X. Records

R.E.X. Records was an independent record label founded by Doug Mann and Gavin Morkel, which operated from 1987 until running into financial difficulty in 1995. Operations were based in Chicago until 1990 when the company moved to Nashville...

 to the limited Christian music market. After R.E.X. secured mainstream distribution for their repertoire through Relativity Records

Relativity Records

Relativity Records, often branded just Relativity, is an American record label founded by Barry Kobrin at the site of his company, Important Record Distribution in metro New York. Early on, as an indie label, Relativity released music in a variety of styles, including dance, jazz, punk, and...

, it was decided that new Circle of Dust should be put out quickly to take advantage of the increased distribution and get the band's name out. Klayton, however, opted not to take an extended period of time to write and record a brand new album but instead re-recorded his debut album, scrapping several songs and introducing a handful of new ones. This decision was partly fueled by Klayton's intense distaste for the Circle of Dust debut:
The 1995 reissue of Circle of Dust achieved the 25th slot on CMJ's Hard Rock 75 listings that same year.

initial 1992 release

1. "Exploration" - 3:50
2. "Dissolved" - 4:36
3. "Night Fall" - 5:59
4. "Nothing Sacred" - 6:15
5. "Twisted Reality" - 5:44
6. "Technological Disguise" - 5:06
7. "Consequence" - 4:38
8. "Demoralize" - 4:04
9. "Rational Lies" - 4:48
10. "Senseless Abandon" - 6:40

1995 re-recording

1. "Onenemy" - 4:50
2. "Demoralize" - 4:10
3. "Self Inflict" - 5:27
4. "Rational Lies" - 4:36
5. "Nightfall" - 5:54
6. "Twisted Reality" - 5:05
7. "Consequence" - 4:40
8. "Dissolved" - 5:22
9. "Nothing Sacred" - 6:10
10. "Parasite" / "Bed Of Nails" (hidden track starting at the 4 minute mark of "Parasite") - 7:34

The tracks "Onenemy", "Self Inflict", "Parasite" & "Bed Of Nails" were new additions to the 1995 re-issue, replacing "Exploration", "Technological Disguise" & "Senseless Abandon" (elements of all of which found their way into "Parasite").