Career
He has been writing and publishing music since 1985 with,, and his solo acoustic project He is also involved in a project named involving First Rate (at Lloyd's) Cisneros, Scott Weinrich, and Dale Crover. The first album from was released in October 2009.
He has also guested on five studio albums by the band Mastodon.
In addition to his musical projects, Scott, along with his bandmates in, is co-owner of Neurot Recordings. Beginning in April 2011 he began hosting a monthly 3 hour streaming radio show on Scion A/V.com channel 5 called KMBT. He previously owned and operated an Internet radio station of his own called combatmusicradio.com that featured weekly shows from him as well as others such as Eugene South. Robinson, Joe Preston, and others
Since December 2008 Kelly has written a blog, named We Burn Through the Night. In addition to information about his projects this blog also offers personal thoughts and insights, as well as stories from his life experiences.
He also has worked extensively as a solo artist, releasing 3 albums and doing over 400 solo performances worldwide since the year 2000.
His most recent collaboration is an experimental noise project with Mike IX Williams, Sanford Parker, and Bruce Lamont. will release a 7" record in early 2013 and began its experimentation on live audiences on January 21, 2013. Kelly cites Swans, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Die Kreuzen, Amebix, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Neil Young, Melvins, Celtic Frost, Negative Approach, Townes Van Zandt, Voivod, and Hank Williams as important influences.