King 810

Hailing from the gritty, music-rich industrial stronghold of Flint, Michigan, King 810 craft dense, nu-metal-tinged modern hard rock laced with hip-hop textures and somber jazz accents. The group secured a Roadrunner contract in the early 2010s and issued their Billboard-charting second album, the aggressive Memoirs of a Murderer, in 2014. They later handled 2020’s apocalyptic AK Concerto No. 47, 11th Movement in G Major on their own.

Built around vocalist David Gunn, guitarist Andrew Beal, bassist Eugene Gill, and drummer Andrew Workman, the band first gained traction in their home region and self-released the 2012 debut Midwest Monsters before signing with Roadrunner Records. Memoirs of a Murderer arrived in 2014 and registered strongly on Billboard’s US Heatseekers and Hard Rock charts. In early 2016 the quartet released the single “We Gotta Help Ourselves” to support relief efforts and awareness surrounding the Flint water crisis. Their second Roadrunner full-length, La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God, appeared that September. Beal and Workman departed in 2018, after which Gunn and Gill composed the band’s subsequent material; that same year Gunn debuted a solo rap alias, Yavid, with the project Black Teeth Devil, Vol. 1. The following year brought the stylistically varied Suicide King, issued independently after an amicable split from Roadrunner. AK Concerto No. 47, 11th Movement in G Major surfaced at the close of 2020.