Paul Geller

Paul Geller is an American singer / songwriter best known as the lead guitarist for the pioneering South Florida Screamo / Hardcore Punk band, Keepsake.

He grew up in Coral Springs, Florida around the bands from the area including Marylin Manson, New Found Glory, Shai Hulud and Mourning Again. Keepsake was one of the earliest screamo bands and the first to come out of the area. They were signed to Eulogy Recordings when Geller was 15 and released their first album (The Things I would Say) in the fall of 1998. Geller was the primary composer on the first three Keepsake albums: The Things I would Say (Eulogy Recordings 1998); She Hums Like a Radio (Eulogy Recordings 1999) and The End of Sound (Eulogy Recordings 2000). He departed the band in 2001 before the release of their final record, Black Dress in a B Movie (Fearless Records 2003).

Geller's work as a solo artist has a distinctive tone for the era and draws on influences like Ryan Adams and The Postal Service but with a far more aggressive approach to acoustic music. While composing Pauly Jett's Regression 2001 he was also producing records for the next generation notable hardcore punk bands to come out of the area.

Regression came out in 2001 on Kligman Recording Academy, the record label run by former Keepsake bandmate, Mark Silva. Though recorded just after Regression in 2002, Florida Demos was released on Kligman Recording Academy some 20 years later.