Robert Dustie Waring (born January 31, 1985 in Clemmons, North Carolina) is an American guitarist. He is known for playing rhythm and additional lead parts for the American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. He is also a guitarist for the deathcore band Glass Casket. Waring joined Between the Buried and Me in 2005 along with Glass Casket bandmate, Blake Richardson, replacing Shane Blay as rhythm guitarist.

Musical career 
Waring first started playing guitar after being inspired by guitarists like Randy Rhoads and felt further inspired by Pantera as well as his father and uncle. By the time he was fifteen, he had already started playing shows. In 2001, Gadrel, later renamed to Glass Casket, formed with Waring in Winston-Salem and would release their debut album, We Are Gathered Here Today, in 2004 that was produced by Jamie King, who previously produced albums like Between the Buried and Me, and would continue to produce future release by Between the Buried and Me. 

In 2005, following the departure of Shane Blay, Waring would join Between the Buried and Me as they began work on their next album following The Silent Circus. The album, titled Alaska, would be the first album to feature Waring, along with Dan Briggs and Blake Richardson who had formed Glass Casket along with Waring.

In 2006, the band would release another album titled The Anatomy Of, where the album included various covers of songs from bands like Pantera and Metallica. Also in 2006, Glass Casket would release their next album, A Desperate Man's Diaries. After relentless touring, the band would be invited to Ozzfest 2006. Ozzfest pushed the band to want to further move into a unique direction that would set them apart from bands they would be commonly grouped with. The album that would come out of this was Colors, released in 2007. The album would give the band a push further into a progressive metal sound as well as grow each band member individually, including Waring's playing.

Following the release of A Desperate Man's Diaries, Glass Casket went inactive as individual members focused on other projects. Waring would continue to find success with Between the Buried and Me with the years following. Glass Casket remained inactive until Waring stated on Between the Buried and Me's message board that a new album was being planned for 2013. In 2023, it was announced that the band had signed to Silent Pendulum Records and would release a new album and reissue their previous two albums on vinyl. In June, the band released a self-titled EP. Waring is currently living in Nashville, Tennessee.

Guitars 
Waring plays on PRS Guitars and has a signature model of his own. He is known for heavily supporting PRS and in 2014 his signature model was first released and today he plays the DW CE 24 "Floyd" based off a core model.

Allegations 
On April 29th 2023, an anonymous person posted on the r/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe subreddit a set of screenshots from Instagram messages showing exchanges between her and Waring that accuse him of raping and impregnating her after a show. Shortly after, Between the Buried and Me would announce that Waring would sit out on their upcoming tour celebrating ten years of The Parallax II: Future Sequence where his position would be filled by Tristan Auman. This wouldn't be the first time Waring had sat out on a tour, the last time being the band's Island in Limbo European tour, where Waring had to stay home and record his parts due to back issues. Along with the announcement that Waring would sit out on the tour, Waring and his lawyer would also deny the allegations suggesting there's more to the story being left out.  The situation is still ongoing and it is still uncertain whether or not Waring will continue to be in the band.

References 

American musicians
Progressive metal
Living people
1985 births
People from Nashville, Tennessee
Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee