Howard Benson (born 1956 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a two time Grammy nominated music producer and aerospace engineer.^[1]

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.^[2]

[edit] Credits

• Allison Iraheta - Just Like You (2009)
• Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide (2007)
• Adema - Unstable (2003)
• AM Radio - Radioactive (2003)
• Bang Tango - Psycho Café (1989)
• Blindside - Silence (2002); About a Burning Fire (2004); [TBA] (2010)
• Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days (1997)
• Cold - Year of the Spider (2003)
• Crazy Town - Darkhorse (2002)
• Creed - Full Circle (2009)
• Daughtry - Daughtry (2006); Leave This Town (2009)
• Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes (2009)
• Depswa - Two Angels and a Dream (2003)
• Dislocated Styles - Pin The Tail On The Honky (2001)
• The Ernies - Meson Ray (1999) (Who wrote the song "Mr. Benson and the Meson Ray" about him)
• Far Too Jones- Shame and Her Sister (2000)
• Fefe Dobson - Sunday Love (2004-2006)
• Flyleaf - Flyleaf (2005); Memento Mori (2009)
• Gavin DeGraw - Gavin DeGraw (2008)
• Good Charlotte - Cardiology TBA
• Grinspoon - Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills (2004)
• Halestorm - Halestorm
• Hawthorne Heights - [TBD] (2009)
• Head Automatica - Popaganda (2006)
• Hoobastank - The Reason (2003); Every Man for Himself (2006); For(N)ever (2009)
• Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted (2009)
• Kilgore Smudge - Blue Collar Solitude (1995)
• Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview (1998); In With the Out Crowd (2006)
• Lucky Boys Confusion - Throwing The Game (2001)
• Mae - Singularity (2007)
• Meg & Dia - Here, Here and Here (2009)
• 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);
• The New Meanies - Three Seeds (1998)
• 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 - Lonely Road (2008)
• 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 - Common Struggles (2009)
• Slammin' Watusis- Kings of Noise Epic Records EK44488 (1989)
• Sound The Alarm - Stay Inside (2007)
• Skillet - Awake (2009)
• Skindred - Babylon (2002)
• Switched - Subject to Change (2002)
• Systematic - ''Pleasure to Burn''''(2003)
• 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), Life Starts Now (2009)
• Tuff - What Comes Around Goes Around (1991)
• 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)
• Chris Cornell - Long Gone (2009) (Newer version made for the music video)
• Cold - Gone Away (2002)
• Fefe Dobson - Don't Let It Go to Your Head (2005)
• Hawthorne Heights - "Come Back Home" (2007)
• My Chemical Romance - Desert Song (2006)
• The Panic Channel - Blue Bruises (2006); Half Hearted (2006)
• The Used & My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure (2005)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Interview, HitQuarters Jan 2006