Welcome back to the Underground.
With the massive release of Architects and Wanderers officially out in the wild, we are pulling back the curtain on the collective that makes this genre-fluid machine run. Up first is the voice that grounds our heaviest philosophical breakdowns: Arthur Kings, our lead vocalist and electric guitarist.
When you are trying to translate the rigorous logic of Parmenides or the chaotic hedonism of Callicles into a track, you need a frontman who can navigate the intellectual weight without sounding like a college professor reading a syllabus. Arthur brings a raw, predatory, and incredibly physical energy to the microphone. He takes ancient theories and turns them into anthems you can actually feel in your chest.
But who is the guy behind the mic?
From the Coast to the Underground
Arthur hails from a remote, freezing coastal fishing town in Nova Scotia. Long before he was shouting about Socratic dialogue over heavy analog distortion, he cut his teeth playing in chaotic, ear-splitting punk bands out in Halifax. That raw, underground edge is exactly what allows his vocal performances and heavy guitar work to cut right through the band’s dense electronic programming.
The Clockmaker
If you ever walk into the studio and hear the frantic, rhythmic ticking of a dozen tiny metronomes, you have found Arthur’s workbench. When he isn’t tracking vocals or dialing in his guitar tone, Arthur is an obsessive horologist. He spends his downtime meticulously restoring antique pocket watches and mechanical clocks. There is a strange, poetic irony to it—the guy singing about the eternal, unchanging universe of the Pre-Socratics spends his free time literally trying to fix and control time itself.
Studio Survival
Arthur does not run on coffee, and he absolutely rejects the late-night pizza runs that fuel the rest of the band. He is strictly powered by Earl Grey tea. He drinks it in excessive, almost alarming quantities, brewing massive pots of it at 3:00 AM while obsessively rewiring his guitar pedals. If you challenge him to a debate on Stoic ethics, be prepared: he is a former competitive fencer, and he treats verbal arguments with the exact same aggressive, striking precision he used on the piste.
Arthur’s Essential Solo Vocal Tracks: While we often use massive, layered vocal arrangements, sometimes the philosophy demands a single, unwavering voice. Here are three essential tracks where Arthur takes the mic completely solo, with no backing harmonies to soften the blow:
- “Uncreated Sphere” (First Principles): A heavy, immovable track where Arthur delivers the rigid logic of Parmenides completely alone over drone-like distortion.
- “I am the Gadfly (Apology)” (From Cosmos to Cave): Socrates on trial. Arthur spits defiant, unapologetic rock vocals against a relentless rhythm section, capturing a philosopher choosing the hemlock over silence.
- “Aristotle’s Machine” (Architects and Wanderers): Opening our third album, Arthur acts as the lone voice of the ultimate system-builder, laying down the rigid architectural blueprints of the ancient world.
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