Since Ben left Evanescence, he has been working non-stop on an array of musical and entertainment projects. He has also been out and about making sure his face is still seen. Some of his projects and adventures include:

• Recording a song and music video called Everything Burns, which is a duet featuring Anastacia. The song will be on the Fantastic Four Soundtrack sponsored by Wind-up Records. The soundtrack is due to be released July 5, 2005.
• Completed writing for a solo record. No release date or any other information is known at the present time.
• Playing guitar on the song Forever In Our Hearts, the song for Tsunami Relief, written by Jason Miller and produced by Jay Baumgardner. Ben also appears in the video for the song, which can be seen here.
• Playing lead guitar on The Wicker Man, a song that will be included on an All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden. The CD was produced by Bob Kulick, and vocals for the song will be performed by Jason Miller of Godhead. There is no release information known as of yet.
• Worked alongside David Hodges and Kelly Clarkson on three songs, two of which (Because Of You, Addicted) made Kelly's sophomore album, Breakaway, which released November 30, 2004.
• Made a cameo appearance in Drowning Pool's video, "Step Up". The video can be viewed on Launch at Drowning Pool's artist page, and here are four screencaps.
• Worked on writing three songs with Avril Lavigne, one of which (Nobody's Home) becme a single from Avril's album, Under My Skin, which released May 25, 2004.
• Has been doing production work with Dave Fortman (The producer for Fallen) for the The Blank Theory's next album.
• Collaborated on a song called The End Has Come with Jason Miller (Godhead), Jason Jones (Drowning Pool), & Lance Garvin (Living Sacrafice drummer) for The Punisher soundtrack which released March 23, 2004.
• Worked on a song called Fight The Power for the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack, however, the song was not included on the soundtrack.
• Helped to screen The Passion Of The Christ with Mel Gibson, and along with fellow Ex-Evanescence member David Hodges created a song called "Only Human, Only God" for the Music Inspired By soundtrack, which unfortunately was not included on the soundtrack.
• Along with Zack Ward has begun a movie production company, Makeshift Productions, which will release their first feature film; a horror movie tentatively titled Zombies Ate My Mom to be released in 2005.
• Attended the 2004 Grammys where Evanescence won awards for Best Hard Rock Performance and Best New Artist.