Starset is a fantastic band, you seriously will love a lot of their content as you've shown you love orchestration, electronics and heavy rock/metal, looking forward to more reactions!
If you want a heavier song Bringing it Down and Rise and Fall are your best bet. I just started listening to Starset a few months ago and I love every single song. They’ve quickly became my favorite band. They consider themselves to be Cinematic Rock. Edit : I posted before watching the full video. Nothing more is literally my second favorite band, what are the odds haha.
if you want a different take on the song, they have a second music video "TRIALS (reimagine)" and it brought me to tears watching it. full immagery that most people can understand and relate to in some way. completely different sound. Amplified emotions. different video. same song, different key.
Their live shows are something else. They dress up in space suits, a full laser light show with cinematics and two cellists who perform an excellent piece when the rest of the band takes a break.
I've watched you now 7 times for Breaking Benjamin and Starset and a few others, FYI they're brother bands as well as St. Asonia with Adam Gontier from Three Days grace (his new band from i think 4 to 5 yrs ago). Ben kick started Starset a little by letting them open for them a few times at Breaking Benjamin concerts. Also you want a heavier song then its gotta be Telekinetic or Bringing it down. Two of the most HARDEST songs where as Telekinetic has that WOAH factor, so far all reactions to that one song have been jaw dropping. Those two are phenomenal when it comes to hard good rock. My personal favorites are Halo and My Demons. Dustin, at one point in Telekinatic sounds ALMOST and I'm gonna say this kindly because I know your a Linkin Park fan, but ALMOST sounds like Chester. When he does his scream, it's absolutely amazing. Telekinetic would be a good next choice my friend. Keep up the vids, be safe :)
Frequency has a lot of the same vibes as telekinetic but is more melodically beautiful in the less heavy bits where telekinetic is just constant tension building toward the really hard bits which yknow, both are epic, just shows their versatility to have two songs that seem so similar yet also different, like, being able to execute the same thing many ways or different things the same way is very impressive
Starset wants to warn us from the perils of the future, what they actually wanna say with their alben. Starset makes Cinematic Rock. The Band members were scientists but Dustin Bates (Singer) was an engineer.
Starset is best labeled Alternative Rock and alt rock really is a style that means different approach to rock. They used to call themselves Cinematic Rock which exactly what they were but only for the first album, Transmissions. That's cause Rob Graves produced it, a guy who works with Breaking Benjamin and the band Red. He's known to mash Cinematic elements like cellos, violins or even horns and mix them with distorted riff driven guitars and heavy drums. Their second album Vessels could again be labeled as Cinematic Rock (again because Rob Graves produced it) but that time it had much more EDM and hard synth elements instead of clean symphonics. Vessels was Cinematic but without violins and cellos (Though they were still present in the mix but much less common and quite) but instead synthesisers were the ones made it Cinematic. Last album Divisions was produced by the singer himself, Dustin Bates along with some other producers he again worked with like Paul Trust. It was more Indie/Alternative rock and probably is the least cinematic (again they use many elements). It has more clean vocals and guitars are less riff driven, instead melody is in the lead. So yea with each record they try something new while sticking to cinematic vibes and their unique style of mashing things. Manifest for example is an extremely weird mix between rock and pop. It's so good but at the same time awkward. There's so transitioning or anything just direct mash of the genre. Pop kicks and synths then later extremely distorted guitars. So yea this is quite long but that's how the bands musical style goes. I could write double the amount of this about the narrative and the story they created within the Starset but thats more later stuff. The songs that really summarise their unique styles would be : Where The Skies End (may fav all time), Rise and Fall (great example of Cinematic Rock), Gravity of You and Frequency. Their heaviest (in the sense of heavy use of elements) would be Bringing It Down, Gravity of You, Frequency, Into The Unknown and Rise and Fall. So yea there ya go. Sorry it took long but hope it helps. Check em out in your time and make a video out of one of em I guess :D
Starset is one of those bands that just kick ASS. Breaking Benjamin actually introduced me to them since they toured together and sang one of Starset’s songs live. They’re essentially a mix of nearly every genre lolol it has pop, synth, rock, metal-and the strange thing is that it works really well. If you want something that goes from pop to something, well, heavier(?) then I’d say Telekinetic. Heavy throughout, go Bringing it Down v2 or even Other Worlds Than These (my fave off their newest album). Hope this helped somehow! If you even need it!
They are great live. The live shows are definitely a show with a theme and they dress according. Also, have a live violin and cello. I love live string instruments. Leprous also has a live cello.
once you listen to 1 song of starset.. you get addicted to their songs.. EDITED -All their videos are like budgeted for a short Film p.s they do sound as Bring me the horizon... may be the song Throne?
Also - I know you're doing a lot of Breaking Benjamin lately...they just released a cover of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls with Diamante...its gotta cool feel to it and they blend so well
A big part of Starset's themeing is about the dangerous of being uninformed and letting technology and the people who distribute information through it control the masses. IGNORANCE:SLAVERY KNOWLEDGE:FREEDOM Oh also, the most consistent term for their sound I've seen over the years of loving this band has been 'Space Rock'
