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Starset is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Deftones, Muse, Smash Into Pieces, Breaking Benjamin and Ra. Those roots explain a lot about how Starset arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thousand Foot Krutch, Nothing More, Saint Asonia, Three Days Grace and Shinedown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Halestorm and Shinedown, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Starset, reaching back through Deftones and forward to Halestorm. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Starset is an American rock band from Columbus, Ohio, formed by Dustin Bates in 2013. They released their debut album, Transmissions, in 2014 and their second album, Vessels, on January 20, 2017. The band has found success in expanding the ideas of their concept albums through social media and YouTube, with the band generating over $230,000 in revenue from views from the latter as of November 2016. Their single "My Demons" had accumulated over 280 million YouTube views in the same time period. Their most commercially successful song, "Monster", peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in May 2017. A third studio album, Divisions, was released on September 13, 2019, with their fourth studio album, Horizons, released on October 22, 2021. Their fifth album, Silos, was released September 12, 2025.
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Starset connections
Starset grew out of Deftones, Muse, Smash Into Pieces and Breaking Benjamin, shares an orbit with Thousand Foot Krutch, Nothing More, Saint Asonia and Three Days Grace, went on to shape Halestorm and Shinedown. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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