Biography

Paul Terry is a music artist, producer, and bestselling author. He releases music via his independent label SkyBabyRecords.

His acclaimed instrumental project Aptøsrs' debut album 'Elders' is mixed by Adam Noble (Biffy Clyro).

As a composer, Paul's 30+ original scores include: Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection (2022), the award-winning film about The Rocketeer (1991) creator; Sidney & Friends (2018), the multi-award-winning feature documentary (nominated for Best Score at the 2019 Independent Music Awards), which he also executive produced; the award-nominated thriller Hidden Valley Place (2021) (score mixed by two-time Grammy Award winner Sam Okell); and Raindance Film Festival Award-nominated drama Emily (2013) (co-composed with James Bellamy), starring Felicity Jones and Christopher Eccleston.

As a singer-songwriter, Paul records under the moniker Cellarscape. Those albums include 'Exo Echo' (2017), which features 'Failsafe', the theme song for Behind the Panel (2019), and 'Chem Trails', the theme song for So Much Damage: How Image Comics Changed the World (2017), as well as 'The Act of Letting Go' (2014), nominated for Best Eclectic Album at the 2015 Independent Music Awards. Acclaimed Dutch artist Anneke van Giersbergen (Vuur, Devin Townsend, The Gathering) duetted with Paul on the Cellarscape song The Same Place (2014). The music video for Cellarscape's Epinephrine (2014) (written and directed by Paul) was officially selected for SXSW 2016.

As an author, Paul has written or co-written numerous official books on film and TV properties, including: The X-Files (1993), Marvel Studios, Bad Robot's Lost (2004) and Fringe (2008), John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and many more. His fiction book debut is 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) - Haunted & Hunted' (published by Moonstone Books), featuring five brand new Kolchak stories, each penned by Paul.

He also produced the official podcasts for: History's TV series Project Blue Book (2019); USA's sci-fi drama Colony (2016); SYFY's comic-book podcast docu-series Behind the Panel (2019); and the hit limited series Through the Looking Glass: A LOST Retrospective (2019) (co-hosted by Tara Bennett & Maureen Ryan).

Paul lives in Los Angeles.