Ben Weinman Biography

Ben Weinman born Benjamin A. Weinman is an American musician, most notable for being the lead guitarist for the band the Dillinger Escape Plan. Currently playing guitar with the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. He was the founder and sole constant member through the band’s career (1997-2017).

Ben Weinman Age

Benjamin A. Weinman was born in Morris Plains, New Jersey on August 8, 1975. He is 43 years as of 2018. He is of Austrian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish/Austrian descent through his grandparents who fled to the United States before the Holocaust.

Ben Weinman Family

Weinman grew up in Morris Plains, New Jersey. Weinman’s family was not actively observant but he grew up “with a real appreciation of the culture of Judaism”.

He was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child. He later stated that “music saved his life” because it helped him to discover new ways of learning, make friends and it gave him a sense of purpose.

Weinman attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey where he first received a degree in psychology in 2000. Then in corporate communications, a field in which he worked for some time afterward at a web company.

Ben Weinman Wife

Weinman is a married man. He is married to a surgeon and he has a stepson and a daughter. Following the disbandment of The Dillinger Escape Plan, he established an animal sanctuary on his home in New Jersey. He follows a pescetarian lifestyle.

Additionally, he has supported the You Rock Foundation which seeks to spread awareness about depression and appeared in one of its video campaigns. He has been vocal about his choice not to drink, smoke or use other recreational drugs and described himself as a straight edge for many years, but no longer does so as of 2016.

Ben Weinman Career

Weinman played in certain groups from New Jersey and in 1996 he established the in-your-face punk act Arcane alongside Chris Pennie on drums, Dimitri Minakakis on vocals, Bruce Fulton on bass and Brad McMann and on second vocals. He portrays the gathering as an “acts of futility” because of their absence of advancement.

Following a couple of months, they pivoted its style, with Adam Doll supplanting McMann and Derek Brantley replacing Fulton. In the long run, Arcane transformed into the Dillinger Escape Plan in 1997. Weinman step by step moved his attention to being a full-time artist and inevitably stopped his corporate activity.

Weinman has been associated with the generation of all the band’s discharges since their self-titled introduction EP, just like different other melodic works. Weinman has self-guided or has been included with the administration of The Dillinger Escape Plan since the band’s origin.

Known for his frank perspectives on the music business, he has added to different distributions and spoken at colleges and gatherings regarding the matters of music generation and the music business.

Weinman’s business procedures and ways of thinking have been talked about, and included, in productions, for example, Forbes, the Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

On February 6, 2012, Weinman showed up on the VH1 arrangement Metal Evolution in the last scene on the dynamic metal where The Dillinger Escape Plan was cited as being “the world’s most hazardous band”.

The band’s second full-length album, Miss Machine, was the first album released by record label Relapse Records to make the Billboard charts. Weinman’s first full-length studio album with The Dillinger Escape Plan, entitled Calculating Infinity, was listed in the book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time by Martin Popoff.

Calculating Infinity was also named one of “100 best rock albums of all time” by Kerrang magazine, who presented Weinman with a spirit of independence award.

Currently, he is the manager to Kimbra, a two times Grammy award-winning singer who he also collaborated with on her second studio album entitled The Golden Echo. In 2012, Weinman founded the group Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. In 2016, he released the debut album Broken Lines with it.

Weinman collaborated with rapper Wyclef Jean, contributing drums to a song which has not been released yet. Weinman also composed the score for the 2014 film Alien Abduction.

He has performed with acts such as Nine Inch Nails and System of a Down and in 2017, Weinman performed as a live guitarist/bassist for the electronic ensemble The Prodigy. He also joined Suicidal Tendencies as a fill-in guitarist on their summer 2018 tour; Weinman was later confirmed as a full-time member of Suicidal Tendencies, and he is currently working on new material with them.

Ben Weinman Net Worth

He is a guitarist whose primary source of income is his career. However, his estimated net worth is still under review but will be updated as soon as it is clear.

Ben Weinman Songs

This is some of the songs he has appeared in;

The Dillinger Escape Plan

• Calculating Infinity (1999)
• Miss Machine (2004)
• Ire Works (2007)
• Option Paralysis (2010)
• One of Us Is the Killer (2013)
• Dissociation (2016)

With Giraffe Tongue Orchestra

Broken Lines (2016)

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