Back to Dust features numerous guest appearances, including Manchild and Playdough of Deepspace5, Theory Hazit, Supastition, LMNO of The Visionaries, and Raphi, Griffin, and Triune of Tunnel Rats.

After released two EPs in 1996, in 1997 he co-founded the supergroup Deepspace5 and joined the West Coast hip hop collective Tunnel Rats.

[5] Sev Statik and DJ Dust also partnered with the rapper Braille's Hip Hop IS Music to release a digipak version of the album.

[8] The production uses a diverse assortment of musical elements, including jazz-style piano, frenetic drum kits, soulful vocals, harpsichord licks, and spoken word and a cappella passages.

[9] Working from this theme, Sev Statik approaches a diversity of interconnected topics, such as mass media brainwashing and family problems, but highlights life, death, and creation throughout.

[8] Jerry Bolton of The Phantom Tollbooth gave the album a perfect score of five stars, exclaiming that "Back To Dust, quite simply, is so good that I couldn't believe my ears.

It took a month of regular rotation to quiet my cynicism and fully agree with my initial feeling: this is the best collection of beats & rhymes this year.