[3][4] He has also worked with many other hardcore bands, including Youth of Today, Straight Ahead, Rest in Pieces, Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags.

[8] Setari first began listening to rock and heavy metal music at the age of twelve, through his older brother Scott and his friend Dan Lilker.

One day, Lilker gifted Scott a bass, so that he could learn the instrument and join an early iteration of Anthrax.

NYC Mayhem would release their debut EP We Stand in 1985 and then break up in late-1985, leading Setari to briefly join Youth of Today as their bassist.

NYC Mayhem reformed in late-1986 under the name Straight Ahead, this time with Sick of It All's Armand Majidi on drums,[10] They released their sophomore EP, Breakaway.