Miserylab

Miserylab was originally conceived as a moniker for remix and production purposes, such as work that King had done for My Vitriol and the Mercury Music Award-winning Elbow.

The name was originally spelled "misery:lab", but King chose to remove the colon to make it easier to find in Internet search engines.

[2][4][5] Encouraged by a positive response, and with the successful relocation of his home studio to Leeds, King began writing the full-length Function Creep in November 2007.

[7] Around the same time, King was approached by a Russian record label, which resulted in the release of a compilation album in Russia in August that year.

[11] An additional three tracks from the album's recording session—"Futile", "Machines" and "Heart"—were posted two months later on the audio distribution site SoundCloud, under the name From Which No Light Out-Takes.

[12][13] The Terrorizer magazine supplement Dominion gave the album a positive review, comparing the sound to that of Joy Division and early Killing Joke.

[28] An extended remix of "Children of the Poor" was made available for download with all orders, and the album was preceded by a promotional video for a new track, "People".

The Brutal Resonance e-zine gave the album a rating of 9/10, complimenting regimented guitar arrangements and the "unpleasant observations" within the lyrics.

The publication also give high praise to the final track, "Last Day", commenting, "Not since the Cure did the song ‘The Top’ has a musical outing ever left me feeling so drained.

In May 2019, King released a number of miserylab songs as a new album titled Seems Like Forever under the name of Rosetta Stone, his previous band from the late 1980s to mid-1990s.