Paul Terry is a composer, songwriter, producer, and bestselling author. He releases music via his independent label SkyBabyRecords. The 25-track compilation album SkyBabyRecords Est. 1999 – A 25th Anniversary Celebration is out now.

 

His new instrumental project is Aptøsrs (pronounced "apatosaurus"). The critically acclaimed debut album Elders is out now, mixed by Adam Noble (Biffy Clyro, Don Broco), and mastered by Grammy Award nominee Robin Schmidt (Royal Blood, Wolf Alice).

 

As a composer, Paul's 30+ original scores include: the award-winning Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection (the film about The Rocketeer creator/artist); the 13-time award-winning Sidney & Friends (which Paul also executive produced); thriller Hidden Valley Place (score mixed by multiple Grammy winner Sam Okell); and Raindance Film Festival Award-nominated drama Emily (co-composed with MPSE Award winner James Bellamy), starring Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones and BAFTA nominee Christopher Eccleston, and directed by BAFTA nominee Caroline Harvey.

 

Under the alias of Cellarscape his albums include Exo Echo. This features "Failsafe"—the theme song to NBCUniversal's docu-series Behind The Panel. The Independent Music Award-nominated Cellarscape album The Act Of Letting Go contains "The Same Place", a duet with Anneke van Giersbergen, and "Epinephrine"—its music video (written/directed by Paul) was officially selected for SXSW.

 

Other musical collaborations include Love Amongst Ruin (the band of former Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt), as the featured artist on their song "Detonation Days". He also duetted with Danish singer-songwriter Martha Meganie on her record "Mistaken" (produced by Grammy winner Flemming Rasmussen).

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​As an author, he has written or co-written (with Tara Bennett) numerous official books on film and television, including the multi-award-winning The X-Files: The Official Archives, the bestselling The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Marvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding. Paul's fiction credits include comic scripts for LEGO Adventures and Wallace and Gromit Comic. His latest original fiction is the anthology Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Haunted & Hunted.

Paul lives in Los Angeles.