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Starset was formed in 2013 by Downplay vocalist Dustin Bates, who is the band's lead singer, songwriter, and keyboardist. [11] Bates's interest in astronomy was first fueled when acquiring his master's in electrical engineering as he studied at Ohio University.
Frontman Dustin Bates outlines the process for creating the album: I start with sonic goals. This time I had a greater understanding of what instrumentation and even arrangements and genres, to an extent, would be amalgamated into these songs… and then chord structures. Once there’s a great chord structure then I always scat melodies.
On February 6, 2016, DeChant posted a band reunion photo of himself and Bates together with former members of Downplay, including Hill, Kiser, McKeever, Mealey and White. [49] In December 2019, Dustin shared his 2019 Spotify wrapped info-graph of Downplay with the caption "I should release some more of this." [50]
Frontman Dustin Bates described the song's lyrical premise as "downtrodden protagonist superhero gains power from love interest", similar to something seen as in the 2008 and onward Iron Man films between Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. [4]
Much like the band's prior two albums, the album conceptually refers to frontman Dustin Bates' fictional story about a dystopian future struggling with the misuse of technology. [11] The music video for "Manifest" established the setting of New West, where denizens of a work camp are mind controlled into compliance through technology embedded ...
"Waiting on the Sky to Change" is a song by American rock band Starset. The song features contributions by American rock band Breaking Benjamin.Written by Dustin Bates (Starset) and Jasen Rauch (Breaking Benjamin) for Bates' prior band, Downplay in 2011, the song was re-recorded in 2022 and released as a single in August 2022.
an emotional Bates said on 'CBS Sunday Morning' after the realization, more than 30 years after her Oscar win Kathy Bates Is Shocked After Realizing She Did, in Fact, Thank Her Mom in Oscars ...
Bates also explained that lyrically, the song was inspired by feelings of being "bastardized into someone else's monster" while working in the music industry. [9] Musically, Bates aimed to "[blend] some of the structural elements and textures of EDM into the hard rock and cinematic elements of the last record [ Transmissions ]". [ 9 ]