He began his career in the mid-1990s as a singer and musician for rock and heavy metal bands and as a composer of movie soundtracks.
Trained as a pianist, Benevento began playing the keyboards in a rock band at age 16.
In 1998 (using the stage name of "Dust") he founded the doom metal band How Like A Winter (formerly Grand Guignol).
In 2006 Benevento joined the band The Foreshadowing[2] and with them he released 3 albums and toured Europe and the United States.
Marco I. Benevento lives in Rome where he continues to work as a musician and also as a sound designer and actor.