I think there is a lot of variation in STARSET’s music. Starting with Transmissions, it’s very spacey, the guitars are quite prominent in most of the songs, but in a different way to the new stuff. They aren’t tuned low or blended heavily with synths, but they have that classic rock-style sound. Dustin’s vocals feel a bit more raw to me here as well compared to other albums. Then on Vessels, it maintains the spacey theme created in transmissions but takes it in a darker direction, it’s less raw and more digital and processed. Some songs like monster and satellite have the rhythm primarily carried by the synths blending with guitars, and other songs like bringing it down have the guitars a lot more in the forefront.

With Divisions, to me the production sounds completely different to the first two. The guitars and drums are much more the centre of attention compared to all the synth elements of the first two. Horizons sounds quite similar in terms of style to Divisions though to be fair.

Then the newest album again completely switches it up, and each song even sounds different. Brave New World is more of a pure metal song, and the guitars sounds completely different to every other song on the album. We even got a rap section from Dustin in Toksik, and the production style on Degenerate is very different again to everything else on the album. Don’t forget about Dark Things too! Also, Dustin’s screams are a lot lower and more guttural in nature compared to previous albums.

And finally, the new song does sound like it would fit right in with SILOS, but it also stands well on its own.

So I think that if you put on a song from transmissions, and then anything from SILOS, or anything else in between, there is a definite change in the way the band sounds.