Meet K9OBCT

Frontman & creative lead

SK

SK is the frontman and creative lead behind K9OBCT, a heavy music band rooted in post-hardcore, metalcore, and personal storytelling. The band combines heavy riffs, atmospheric arrangements, and emotionally direct writing, exploring the tension between aggression and vulnerability.

His writing centers on heartbreak, identity, regret, and the difficulty of moving forward while still carrying the past. The songs examine both the damage people experience and the mistakes they make themselves, giving anger, accountability, and attachment room to exist together.

K9OBCT released Bad4Me on February 14, 2026. Tracks including “I Didn’t Stay,” “What I Did 2 U,” and “Don’t Scream at My Shadow, I’m Already Fighting My Own Head” reflect the personal language and internal conflict running through the band’s music.

Alongside songwriting, SK takes an active role in K9OBCT’s visual direction, music-video concepts, artwork, and merchandise. His approach carries the emotions behind the songs into the imagery around them, developing a recognizable identity across the band’s music and presentation.

Keys, synths & atmosphere

Null

Null’s first setup was a secondhand keyboard, a cheap interface, and headphones with one side louder than the other. Before playing with a band, he spent evenings rebuilding sounds he heard in songs: a distorted piano, a distant voice, a synth that almost sounded like a guitar. He rarely finished those early tracks, but kept every project file.

He came into K9OBCT to add a few textures to a demo. A small piano part underneath one of SK’s rough vocals earned him another session, then another. Eventually, there was a keyboard permanently taking up space in the rehearsal room.

Offstage, he’s more talkative than people expect, particularly about films and terrible production decisions. In rehearsal, he’ll spend twenty minutes finding a sound and then happily delete it if the song works better without it. His most common contribution is knowing exactly where everyone should stop playing.

Drums

Diesel

Diesel learned to play in rooms where hearing protection was usually an afterthought and somebody was always asking him to turn down. His early experience came from garage bands, borrowed kits, and filling in for people who couldn’t make rehearsal. He developed a habit of arriving with spare sticks, drum keys, tape, and enough hardware to fix somebody else’s problem.

He first played with SK during a rehearsal that was supposed to last an hour. They spent most of the evening replaying one section, adjusting where the vocal ended and the drums took over. That attention to the song kept him coming back.

Diesel laughs easily and gets frustrated quietly. He records rehearsals on his phone and actually listens back. When a breakdown feels wrong, he usually wants to simplify it before making it faster. He’s also the one still packing cases after everyone else has started talking in the parking lot.

Lead guitar

Rex

Rex is the biological twin brother of Diesel, K9OBCT’s drummer.

Rex spent his early years learning songs by ear, getting parts slightly wrong, and accidentally developing his own habits in the process. He went through the familiar phase of putting too many notes into everything. Some old recordings still exist, and the others bring them up whenever he gets too confident.

A mutual friend introduced him to SK. At their first session, Rex brought a folder of riffs but ended up working on an unfinished song SK already had. The part that stayed was a short melody between two vocal lines.

He cares about small details: how long a note rings, whether feedback belongs in the gap, whether the second chorus should open up. Away from the guitar, he’s easygoing and a little distractible. Give him a song that isn’t working, though, and he’ll keep sending revised versions long after everyone has gone to bed.

Bass

Bone

Bone started on guitar and moved to bass because a friend’s band needed someone. He expected it to be temporary. Playing alongside a drummer changed his mind; he liked being able to alter the weight of a song without drawing attention to himself.

He joined K9OBCT as a rehearsal fill-in, arriving with the songs learned and a few questions written in his phone. One of those questions exposed a transition nobody else had noticed was awkward. He stayed.

Bone has a dry sense of humor and a better memory for conversations than the others would sometimes prefer. He’s usually the first to notice when someone needs a break. Musically, he stays close to Diesel but leaves himself room to move underneath Rex’s parts. His gear is maintained, his cables are labeled, and he still somehow ends up lending everyone something.