Thanks to everyone who supported the new Anatomy of Habit album this summer! We had a fun release event with Twelve Ten Gallery and we received a lot of very positive reviews of the album. Many of those have been archived on our website. Two new video interviews are linked below.+++++
My new solo album, "A Diagnosis Of Distance," was announced this week and the first song, "Dense Anchorage," is streaming on Bandcamp. Preorders are now open exclusively on Bandcamp. The album will be released on Friday, November 20. Details of my three November shows to support the release can be found below.
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Along with Bandcamp, you can always buy vinyl, CDs, cassettes, etc., for my solo work and all my bands from my webstore - which is up-to-date with in-stock items. I also have any BloodLust! releases that are still available.
I've been adding more items to my Discogs store (all in-stock releases, select out of stock items, used items, rarities, etc.) and maintaining my eBay store (all of my in-stock releases).
As always, thanks for reading!
Mark Anatomy of Habit
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.
Watch Tom Osman's interview with Mark here
Watch Chris Elliott's interview with Mark here
Anatomy of Habit
"Paired Sentinels"
LP + 7-inch / CD / Cassette / Digital
https://anatomyofhabit.bandcamp.com/album/paired-sentinels
Read the full release announcement from EarsplitPR here
Album Tracklist:
1. Always Arriving
2. Conditions for Freedom
3. The Importance of Risk
4. Paired Sentinels
7-Inch Tracklist (exclusive to LP version):
1. Sentinel (One)
2. Sentinel (Two)
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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.
https://bloodyminded.threadless.com/designs/bloodyminded-synths-up-2024-design/
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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.
 
For US orders, please visit: https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/
For EU orders, please visit: https://paololbandera.bandcamp.com/
Rest of world based on proximity to USA/Italy
No shows currently booked.
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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.
A limited number of LPs, CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page.
There are also shirt designs available on Threadless.
No shows currently booked.
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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.
CDs and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page.
There are numerous shirt designs exclusive to Threadless.
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Mark Solotroff
Mark Solotroff formed the band Intrinsic Action in 1984 and he's a founding member of Anatomy Of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. His other bands include The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, The Mercury Impulse, and Nightmares. He recorded 100 cassettes of analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop and he releases synth-based and feedback system music under his own name.
 Mark Solotroff "A Diagnosis Of Distance"
https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/a-diagnosis-of-distanceMy new solo album, A Diagnosis Of Distance, will be released on November 20th. Preorders are live on Bandcamp, and the first track, "Dense Anchorage," is streaming.
A Diagnosis Of Distance treats separation — from places, from people, from earlier iterations of the self — as a condition to be mapped and analyzed rather than a narrative to be resolved. Operating across drone, dark ambient, synth noise, tape music, and post-industrial soundscapes, it was built from analog synthesizer, keyboard, drum machine, cassette manipulation, and source recordings gathered across Chicago, Berlin, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca. Rather than offering nostalgia or catharsis, it operates as an act of deliberate, quiet measurement — tracking distance through its artifacts until the isolation itself becomes the primary subject.
While deeply personal, this wasn't a strictly solitary project. I’m grateful to my friends and collaborators — Isidro Reyes, JR Robinson, and Josh Strachan — for weaving their distinct sounds into the album’s bleak framework, and to Collin Jordan for mastering the record with a careful sense of space and dimension. Thanks also to Liz at EarsplitPR for helping me spread the word!
"Dense Anchorage" is as the lead single and entry point to the record. I’m solo on this track, layering drones, whirls, and static alongside a repeating keyboard figure, built around source elements captured across three cities.
1. Dense Anchorage
2. The Geometry of Separation (Feat. JR Robinson)
3. Phantom Tenant
4. Signals of a Former Self (Feat. Joshua Strachan)
5. This Absent Room (Feat. Isidro Reyes) Live:
11/05/2026 Color Club – Chicago, IL - w/ Mortido, Exhumed Corpse, Black Triangle Badge [advance tickets are encouraged]
11/13/2026 Untitled Fest – Nashville, TN - w/ Ámes Sanglantes, Arzat Skia, Coldship Passage, Death Pact International, Heterosexual Rage Murder (James Moy of BLOODYMINDED), Frontier, Imminent Death, Viodre, Vatican Shadow, Lussuria, and more… [Tickets]
11/20/2026 Fringe Records – Ridgewood, NY - w/ Cruor Incendia, Desolation Colony, DJ Pieter Schoolwerth [RSVP]
My contemporary recordings are available on all major streaming platforms. CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on my Bandcamp page. There are numerous shirt designs available on Threadless.
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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.
No shows currently booked.
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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)
"Mouth" T-shirts are available via Bandcamp
https://synthnightmares.bandcamp.com/merch/nightmares-mouth-t-shirt
Band inactive.
No shows currently booked.
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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.
Our new single, "Fifth" has been mixed and mastered and is currently in the design phase. Stay tuned...
I have copies of our "Unburdened Underpass" CD via my webstore.
All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.
No shows currently booked.
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