As I look toward the release of the new Anatomy of Habit album this July (finally!), I’ve been spending time with the lyrics and how they evolved. Let's start with the opening track, “Always Arriving.” Writing it felt like navigating a very specific temperament - that heavy, internal state where willpower starts to thin out and you find yourself leaning back into the past just to find your footing.
There’s a tension in the track that I’ve lived with for a long time: the feeling of being perpetually in transit, always arriving but never quite touching the ground. It’s a compressed way to exist. I’ve found that using repetition in the music isn't about circling back to the start; it’s more like digging into the same patch of earth until you hit something archaic, something that feels like a foundational truth or a protective presence.
This work is really a study of what we leave behind - the traces and the gestures that remain even when we feel out of step with everything around us. It’s a mute testimony, a quiet obsession that keeps building until the air in the room feels different. To me, it’s a continuous line that doesn’t break until it finally hits the reality of mortality. We’re just suspended there, caught between the weight of where we’ve been and the certainty of what’s coming.
It can’t hurt to look closer.
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Formed in Chicago in 2008, ANATOMY OF HABIT has been described as a hybrid of doom metal, post-punk, death-rock, early-industrial, psychedelic, and shoegaze. Although they’ve experienced significant membership changes since forming, today’s band, which includes Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals), and Sam Wagster (bass + lap steel), represents their longest-standing and most prolific lineup. The band credits their treasured chemistry to their intertwining histories as friends and collaborators. Rowe and Latus have made music together since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene, while playing in the band Still. Rowe and Wagster create sweeping, pastoral instrumental music together in Mute Duo. Reyes and Solotroff are old friends who’ve played together for many years and they continue to record and perform in both BLOODYMINDED and The Fortieth Day. This deep connective tissue contributes to what the band describes as consistently effortless writing sessions and innately unified live performances.
 
 
 
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BLOODYMINDED
BLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronic band, formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post- industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, in 1984. BLOODYMINDED’s live shows are exceptionally energetic and are characterized by physical engagement, layers of abrasive analog synthesizer, aggressive vocals, and abundant feedback.
Recording work is back on and we're testing some mixes of the ten in-progress tracks. We have more synth to add and then we'll wrap it up with vocal sessions.
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Ensemble Sacrés Garçons
Ensemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band split between Milan and Chicago and composed of Paolo L. Bandera, Andrea Chiaravalli, and Mark Solotroff. The three members are connected to numerous groups including Sigillum S, Sshe Retina Stimulants, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, Anatomy of Habit, The Fortieth Day, etc.
 
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The Fortieth Day
The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the heavy-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a band known for its aggressive and confrontational live shows. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, drum machine, and analog synthesizer to create epic, blackened, psychedelic-industrial drone soundscapes.
All of our albums, dating back to 2006, are available on all major streaming platforms.
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Intrinsic Action
Intrinsic Action was an early American power-electronics band founded by Mark Solotroff in 1984.
Intrinsic Action albums and archival releases, dating back to 1984, are available to stream on all major platforms.
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The Mercury Impulse
The Mercury Impulse was created in 2024 by JR Robinson and Mark Solotroff. Robinson is well known for Wrekmeister Harmonies and Solotroff is best known for Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED.
Our debut album is available on CD and it's available on all major streaming platforms.
JR and I are slowly continuing to work on tracks for our next album.
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Nightmares
Dark ambient trio, formed in 2009 by Jonathan Canady (Dead World, Deathpile, Angel of Decay), David Reed (Envenomist, Luasa Raelon, Imvixor), and Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, Instrinsic Action)
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The Sodality
Originally created in 1984 by Andrea Cernotto and Pierpaolo Zoppo, The Sodality bloomed under Andrea‘s guidance across seminal works in the 80's and 90's. The project was revived by original members Paolo Bandera and Eraldo Bernocchi for a 2014 concert in Rome, with Mark Solotroff on vocals, and again in 2023, for a live show in Dresden, and new recordings with that line-up, along with founding member Andrea Cernotto.
    
Here are a few photos from the late-November recording session with Paolo at Sanford Parker's studio, Hypercube, for my vocals and synth for the next release by The Sodality.
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All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.
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