Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser (born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer.
He composed the soundtrack for Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Spiral, and Saw X.
Career[]
Charlie Clouser is an American musician who plays the keyboard, synth, theremin, and drums. He is known for his music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing abilities and was a band member of Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2000. Before joining Nine Inch Nails, he was in the alternative band Burning Retna with former L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps and fellow Nothing Records worker Sean Beavan. Besides that, Clouser was also a member of 9 Ways to Sunday in 1990. Throughout his career, he has remixed artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, and Meat Beat Manifesto.
In 2004, Clouser produced the album Size Matters by the band Helmet. This album consisted mainly of collaborations between Charlie Clouser and Page Hamilton and was intended to be Page Hamilton's "solo" album. The first release from the project, "Throwing Punches," appeared on the soundtrack for Underworld in 2003 and is credited as a Page Hamilton track.
In the late 1990s, Clouser created one of FirstCom Music's master series discs. However, these were only sold with a license to use commercially. In 1997, two songs programmed by Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards - White Zombie's "I'm Your Boogie Man" and Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper's "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)," the latter of which Clouser also co-wrote and mixed.
He worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping to record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have," a track whose original version appeared on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine album. In 1999, Rob Zombie's "Dragula" and "Reload" remixes, also credited to Clouser, were included on The Matrix soundtrack. In 2001, he provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour.
Clouser also appeared in a documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for that movie's original soundtrack. He has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring Death Sentence, Resident Evil: Extinction, Dead Silence, Deepwater, and the Saw films. Furthermore, he was the composer for the NBC TV series Las Vegas Freeway and the CBS series NUMB3RS. One of his best-known tracks is the ending theme of the first Saw film, "Hello Zepp," which was reused in different versions throughout the series.
Discography[]
Nine Inch Nails[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1994 | The Downward Spiral |
| 1995 | Further Down the Spiral |
| 1997 | The Perfect Drug |
| Closure | |
| 1999 | The Day the World Went Away |
| The Fragile | |
| Starfuckers, Inc. | |
| 2000 | Things Falling Apart |
| 2002 | And All That Could Have Been |
Marilyn Manson[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Portrait of an American Family |
| Lunchbox | |
| 1995 | Smells Like Children |
| Sweet Dreams | |
| 1996 | Antichrist Superstar |
| 1997 | Tourniquet Pt. 2 |
| 2004 | Lest We Forget: The Best Of |
White Zombie[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Astro Creep: 2000 |
| More Human than Human | |
| Real Solution #9 | |
| 1996 | Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls |
| Supersexy Swingin' Sounds | |
| Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy) |
Rob Zombie[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1997 | The Great American Nightmare |
| 1998 | Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Dragula | |
| 1999 | Living Dead Girl |
| American Made Music to Strip By | |
| Remix-a-Go-Go | |
| 2006 | The Best of Rob Zombie |
Filmography[]
Films[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2004 | Saw |
| 2005 | Deepwater |
| Saw II | |
| 2006 | The Box |
| Saw III | |
| 2007 | Immigrant |
| Dead Silence | |
| Death Sentence | |
| Resident Evil: Extinction | |
| Saw IV | |
| 2008 | The Arrivals |
| Saw V | |
| 2009 | The Stepfather |
| Saw VI | |
| 2010 | Saw 3D |
| 2011 | Talida |
| 2012 | The Collection |
| 2015 | American Horror Story X: Teletubbies |
| 2016 | Walking After You |
| The Neighbor | |
| Atrás De Você | |
| SAW Heritage | |
| Behind the Scenes of Saw Heritage | |
| 2017 | Gone |
| Jigsaw | |
| 2018 | The Silence |
| Aquaman | |
| 2021 | Eye Without a Face |
| Spiral | |
| 2022 | Unhuman |
| 2023 | Saw X |
Television Series[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2002-2003 | Fastlane |
| 2003-2008 | Las Vegas |
| 2008 | Fear Itself |
| 2005-2010 | Numb3rs |
| 2015 | Childhood's End |
| 2015-2016 | Wayward Pines |
| 2016 | Good Behavior |
| 2021-2022 | American Horror Stories |
| 2011-2023 | American Horror Story |
Video Games[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Evolve |
Gallery[]
External Links[]
Charlie Clouser on Wikipedia
Charlie Clouser at the Internet Movie Database
Charlie Clouser on Facebook
Charlie Clouser on Twitter
Charlie Clouser on Instagram