Howard Benson

Howard Benson (born in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a Grammy nominated music producer and aerospace engineer.cite web
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title=Howard Benson: Producer
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accessdate=2007-02-12]

Benson attended Lower Merion High School until his graduation in 1974, he then went on to attend Drexel University receiving a B.S. in Materials Engineering in 1980. He worked as a Mechanical Engineer and a Process Engineer until 1984.cite web
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title= Music Nation: Howard Benson
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accessdate=2007-02-12]

Audio engineer Mike Plotnikoff often works with Benson. In the words of Cold drummer Sam McCandless: "The band had been playing with Manson and Staind, so I wanted the drums to sound huge," he explains, "like dump trucks falling from the sky. Howard and Mike got that right away, and since it usually takes a week or two to get the drum tracks down, I was blown away."Fact|date=September 2008

Credits

* Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide""(2007)
* Adema - "Unstable" "(2003)
* AM Radio - "Radioactive" "(2003)"
* Bang Tango - "Psycho Café" "(1989)"
* Blindside - "Silence" "(2002)"; "About a Burning Fire" "(2004)"
* Body Count - "" "(1997)"
* Cold - "Year of the Spider" "(2003)"
* Crazy Town - "Darkhorse" "(2002)"
* Daughtry - "Daughtry" "(2006)
* Depswa - "Two Angels and a Dream" "(2003)
* Dislocated Styles - "Pin The Tail On The Honky" "(2001)
* Far Too Jones- Shame and Her Sister (2000)
* Flyleaf - "Flyleaf" "(2005)"
* Gavin Degraw - "Gavin Degraw" "(2008)"
* Grinspoon - "Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills" "(2004)"
* Hawthorne Heights - "Fragile Future" "(2008)"
* Head Automatica - "Popaganda" "(2006)"
* Hoobastank - "The Reason" "(2003)"; "Every Man for Himself" "(2006)"
* Less Than Jake - "Hello Rockview" "(1998)"; "In With the Out Crowd" "(2006)"
* Lucky Boys Confusion - "Throwing The Game" "(2001)"
* Mae - "Singularity" "(2007)
* Masi - "Downtown Dreamers" "(1988)
* Meriwether - "Sons of Our Fathers" "(2008)
* Motörhead - "Bastards" "(1993)"; "Sacrifice" "(1995)"; "Overnight Sensation" "(1996)"; "Snake Bite Love" "(1998)"
* My Chemical Romance - "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" "(2004)";""'
* Papa Roach - "Getting Away With Murder" "(2004)"; "The Paramour Sessions" "(2006)"
* PAX217 - "Twoseventeen" "(2000)"
* P.O.D. - "The Fundamental Elements of Southtown" "(1999)";"Satellite" "(2001)"; "Payable on Death" "(2003)"
* Pretty Boy Floyd - "Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz" "(1989)"
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 2008 (in production)
* Reveille - "Bleed The Sky" (2001)
* Relient K - "Five Score and Seven Years Ago" "(2007)
* Saosin - "Saosin" "(2006)"
* Seether - "Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces" "(2007)"
* Sepultura - "Against" "(1998)"
* Single File - "Title-To-Be-Announced" "(2007)"
* Sound The Alarm - "Stay Inside" "(2007)"
* Skindred - "Babylon" "(2002)"
* Switched - "Subject to Change" "(2002)"
* Theory of a Deadman - "Gasoline" "(2005)", "Scars & Souvenirs" "(2008)"
* The All-American Rejects - "Move Along" "(2005)"
* The Buzzhorn - "Disconnected" "(2002)"
* The Ernies - "Meson Ray" "(1999)"
* The Starting Line - "Based on a True Story" "(2005)";"Direction" "(2007)"
* Third Day - "Revelation" "(2008)"
* Three Days Grace - "One-X" "(2006)"
* Vendetta Red - "Sisters of the Red Death" "(2005)"
* Zebrahead - "Waste of Mind" "(1998)"; "Playmate of the Year" "(2000)"; "Phoenix" "(2008)"

Howard Benson has also produced these songs:
* Acceptance - "Different" "(2005)"
* Hawthorne Heights - "Come Back Home" (2007)
* The Panic Channel - "Blue Bruises" "(2006)"; "Half Hearted" "(2006)"
* My Chemical Romance - "Desert Song" (2006)
* The Used & My Chemical Romance - "Under Pressure" " (2005)
* Cold - "Gone Away" (2002)

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