Name Porl King | Role Singer | |
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Albums Analog Witch, Protogrammaton, Void of Life Similar People In Death It Ends, Rosetta Stone, She Past Away, Children on Stun, Velvet Condom Profiles | ||
Porl King, born 19 October 1967 on the Wirral Peninsula in England, first achieved public acclaim and success as the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the goth band Rosetta Stone from their inception in the late 1980s through to their demise in 1998. Since disbanding Rosetta Stone in 1998, he has pursued a career in digital audio and Pro Tools production.
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King has also worked with the French progressive act Mellow, for whom he has done remixes and their musical score created for the Roman Coppola art-house movie CQ. He has also played with Liverpool band Mulu.
Miserylab
King began writing and recording his own material again late in 2005 under the guise of Miserylab. On 17 July 2007, Miserylab released The Vaporware EP, consisting of four tracks, through MySpace. Describing King's remix style: Xfm Radio said in their review of the song Coming Second by Elbow, "misery:lab's Porl King - delivers something that sounds not unlike Depeche Mode at their heaviest" - and made it single of the week.
King admits that miserylab has more of a political edge, driven by his frustration at the artificial horror imagery that clouded perceptions of Goth music.
In Death It Ends
For the last couple years, Porl has worked on the project called In Death It Ends.