Guitarist John LeCompt (also currently in Machina) and vocalist Jack Wiese became friends when Jack's band, the.5th.element from St.Louis, MO, were the opening act at an Evanescence show.
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The first members of the Shadow Warriors to be revealed are Bootleg, a robotic bounty hunter; Dog-Tag, a charming yet ruthless 'pirate' of the trans-Martian highways; The Rev, a minister in the sinister robot religion of the Church of Judas, which Blackblood now follows; and Deus Ex Machina, an artificial intelligence – long thought mythical – capable of taking control of other machines and turning them to its will.
Comic book writer Matt Fraction was criticized for employing Franklin Richards' massive but ill-defined powers as deus ex machina in the 2011 comic book Fear Itself #5.
Levinthal's SF/horror fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines including Mondo Zombie, Eros Ex Machina and Aboriginal Science Fiction, and (with John Skipp) Dark Destiny II and III, and In the Shadow of the Gargoyle.
In November 2005, the Neon Judgement did a show at the Machina Festival at the Broadway Club in São Paulo, Brazil.