We are so proud to release the first part of the Pulse of a Nation Graphic Novel/Score! Anyone who is a fan of our album Pulse of a Nation can order the graphic novel at the store page.

Don’t have the album yet? You can get both the album and graphic novel together in one package and save some of your hard earned money.

Just head over to the store page at www.BenLevinGroup.com and scroll down to see what’s available.

Here’s a preview of this amazing work:

Dear fans and friends,

After many hours of re-assembling my freshly melted face, I decided it would be a good idea to make the graphic novel available for pre-order.  So just click here if you’d like to order your fresh delicious copy of the Pulse of a Nation Graphic Novel.

-Ben

That’s right friends, the first volume of the Pulse of a Nation Graphic Novel/Score is almost here.    I am so grateful to Greg Bowen for being a part of the Ben Levin Group team and making this incredible piece of art.  When I got the books in the mail today my hands melted, my face imploded, my genitals inverted, and my heart squirted.  On December 7th, the book will be on sale exclusively at www.BenLevinGroup.com

I am really looking forward to getting this into your hands!

-Ben

I think I understand how to succeed as an artist or musician.  There seems to be only one way that works in the absence of being independently connected or wealthy.  I believe that the only way to succeed is to truly feel as if you are in the process of succeeding.  In other words, the way to succeed is to be successful.  I know that sounds like bullshit, but humor me for a minute.

Here is an extremely short story about something:

I could barely see after that thing blew up in my face, so I didn’t realize I was stepping on Jeff’s nuts.  The crunching sound was unsettling but not as much as Jeff’s silence.  Usually if you step on a guy’s testicles he screams or moves or something, but I guess he just sat there and accepted my foot as it lay.  That’s so typical of Jeff.

There was a garden and around it was a fence.  The fence was made of twigs and the twigs were snakes.  The snakes twisted and tangled and hissed a warning to anyone who would dare trespass.

The garden smelled of meat.

Dear friends and friendly fans,

I would like to announce that I am going to be posting short stories and songs to www.BenLevinGroup.com in the blog section on a regular basis.

Ben Levin Group has been evolving at a rapid pace.  So much so that we have three albums released and two more recorded that will be coming out over the next year.  By the time those albums come out, I will have an additional two hours worth of music that will be on cue ready to release, but due to logistical reasons, won’t be able to come out till 2 years from now.

The music has one central focus, which is to tell stories.  Most of these stories are too big and elaborate to convey in anything less than a full-length album, which as I noted, takes a really long time to finish.  However, throughout the year I write a lot of little stories and am going to be using the website to get those to you.

These stories will be short pieces of music, prose, and hopefully sometimes comics as I have been working on my drawing.  In order to make sure I don’t start releasing anything that’s below my standard of what’s release-worthy, I won’t promise a weekly or monthly schedule of releases, but will put them online as they are finished.

Thank you for always showing so much enthusiasm and I hope you enjoy what’s on the horizon!

-Ben

I have been listening to a lot of music lately!  Here are the 5 albums that are influencing me right now!

1.  Age of Adz – Sufjan Stevens

2.  The Color Spectrum – The Dear Hunter

3.  Hospice - The Antlers

4.  Gaspard de la Nuit – Maurice Ravel

5.  A bunch of Dub step at UKF dubstep’s youtube

It’s a real change from what I was listening to 2 years ago.  What are your top 5 right now?  Please leave a comment!

-Ben

Thank you so much to Rockstar Weekly for this amazing review:

http://www.rockstarweekly.com/cd-review-ben-levin-grup-pulse-of-a-nation.html

“It takes a lot of gusto and ambition to make a concept album. Seamlessly melding together an album’s songs so they not only compliment one another but form a cohesive musical narrative as well. A daunting task to be sure but one that allows the artists a tremendous amount of creative freedom. Concept albums are by their very nature highly experimental pieces. For a band that claims on their website to have been “founded on the notion that there is still some unique noise to be made”, experimentation should be the name of the game. The Ben Levin Group is a Boston based alternative rock band with an artistic bent and a classical twist. Their third album to date, Pulse Of A Nation is haunting sonic chronicle of mankind coming to terms with an impending apocalypse.