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."
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