Porl King

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.

King has also taken the opportunity to work with the French progressive act Mellow, for whom he has done many remixes - which culminated in the production of material which King developed from their musical score created for the Roman Coppola art-house movie CQ. He has also continued to play and write guitar for the critically acclaimed 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 has released the vaporware ep, consisting of four tracks, for free download via the community website 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. He says, "I wanted to provide a more grounded realistic sense of horror. I really don’t feel that anything works properly in our supposedly civilized infrastructure: governmental priorities are all wrong, pseudo-Christian morality, and apart from all the obvious views on the war in Iraq and my thoughts on animal rights, there are more ordinary issues. The fact that few workers can afford to buy homes where they live, that poor wages are propped up by tax credits and benefits, these things prove fundamentally that capitalism just doesn’t work."[1]

In Death It Ends

For the last couple years, Porl has done an Occultwave/Witchwave/Analog project called In Death It Ends.

Health

On 11 September 2007, King suffered a heart attack in Leeds and was taken by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he survived and was put on an eight week recovery programme.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tim Riley (November 2007). "Icons of Sound - Miserylab". Wound Magazine (London) 1 (1): 40. ISSN 1755-800X.
  2. ↑ Hazel (2007). "Porl King from Rosetta stone had heart attack". Whitby Gothic Weekend. Retrieved 2007-11-05.

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