Song · Starset
“Monster” by Starset
From the album Vessels (2017)
“Monster” by Starset appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2016 and 2017. It was first released in 2017 on the album Vessels. Its best result is #9 on the 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #277 alternative song of 2017.
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"Monster" was the lead single from Vessels, Starset's second studio album, and it arrived in late 2016 with a premiere on Sirius XM's Octane and on YouTube, where it pulled 450,000 views in its first week. Like Transmissions before it, Vessels is a concept record built around the Starset Society, a fictional group probing what science and technology do to us, and Dustin Bates has described its story as a dark, dystopian trip.
Bates sings lead, plays guitar and keyboards and engineered, with Ron DeChant on bass and keys, Brock Richards on electric guitar and Adam Gilbert on drums. Rob Graves produced it and wrote it with Bates and Johnny Lee Andrews. Rock radio ate up its electronic-rock heft: by May 2017 it had climbed to No. 2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart, and it finished the year as the format's second-biggest song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 16 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 67 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 9 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 46 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
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