Mark Walk

Mark Walk is an LA-based American music composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, mainly in the genres of electronic and industrial. He is currently a member of the bands Skinny Puppy and ohGr, and has also produced material for both film and television. He operates a recording studio in Minnesota called Pachyderm, and has worked for Chicago-based Invisible Records. Walk's first band was a local group with members Kevin Brandt, Bruce Bushman, Terry Morehouse, and John Reeves. When he was fifteen he was in a band called Starwood, consisting of Walk on lead guitar, keyboardist Jerry Barker, drummer Mike Fittante, and brothers Mark and Paul Szmanda. In 1989 he collaborated with members of Skinny Puppy and of Ministry for material in the short-lived group called W.E.L.T.

Next Walk moved to California, where he contributed to the band Skinny Puppy's 1996 album The Process at Malibu's Shangri-La Studios facility, an album that took nearly three years to make. Walk first worked with Lesley Rankine on Pigface's 1994 studio album Notes From Thee Underground. After this he relocated to Seattle, Washington, where he joined Rankine in recording Ruby's 1995 studio album Salt Peter, as well as material in ohGr. In 1996 Rankine went on the road with a touring band in support of Salt Peter, in which Walk did not partake.

In 1997 Walk and Rankine participated in Greg Garing's debut album Alone, with Walk contributed on the song "Fallen Angel" and Rankine working on both the "Fallen Angel" and "Walk Away from Me" tracks. Also in 1997 Ruby began recording their follow-up album Short-Staffed At The Gene Pool, but internal issues combined with a collapsing label pushed its release well into 2001. By the end of 1997 Rankine had recorded all of the vocals, but Walk continued work on the rest of the album until 1999 when it was returned to Rankine. Walk again did not participate in the 2001 tour supporting Short Staffed... but that year he produced and performed on ohGr's studio album Welt. Next Walk contributed material for both Collide's 2003 album Some Kind of Strange and the 2004 album Vortex.

Walk produced and performed on Skinny Puppy's albums The Greater Wrong of the Right from 2004 and Mythmaker from 2007. The following year he produced and played several instruments on The Saturday Knights' debut album Mingle, and then produced and played on Devils in My Details by OhGr. In 2009 Walk remixed the compilation album 'Luaka Bop: Twenty First Century Twenty First Year. Walk played bass, guitar, and did much of the programming on Skinny Puppy's 2011 album Handover, as well as instrumentation on and producing OhGr's album Undeveloped, also out that year.