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 its inception in the late 1980s until its demise in 1998. Since disbanding Rosetta Stone in 1998, King has pursued a career in digital audio and Pro Tools production.

King has also worked with the French progressive act Mellow, for whom he has done remixes and the musical score created for the Roman Coppola art-house movie CQ. He has also played with Liverpool band Mulu.

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 a 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 their 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 recent years, King has worked on a project called In Death It Ends.