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Will 2012 be the year that electronic dance music and heavy metal finally make beautiful music together? First we had screamo defector Skrillex bringing mosh-pit energy to dubstep and electro; then iconic nu-metallers Korn linked up with Excision, Datsik, Downlink and other representatives of dubstep's avant-hard brigade (including Skrillex). Now Los Angeles' Celldweller seems likely to be the next artist to separate the head-bangers from the head-scratchers, with a fusion of dubstep, electro and hard rock that some listeners are calling "metalstep." Celldweller's actually been at it for a while; back in 2009, he was already mashing up heavy metal with breaks and NIN-styled industrial flourishes. But his profile is on the rise, thanks to viral hits like his Metallica/Black Sabbath bootleg "Disposable War Pigs" and a jagged breaks remix of the pop singer Jes. Now he's courting genre die-hards with his new EP, The Little Cellout, which features a blinding dubstep remix from Bare along with a sort of Depeche-Mode-gone-dubstep rework from Josh Money. We asked Celldweller to share a selection of current faves; read on for his comments.

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