Arzenik as a project started in 2024, when Calle Johannesson (now located in Chicago) went on a mission to revitalize industrial metal. Having spent his youth in Sweden during the early days of Scandinavian death metal as well as when industrial metal as a genre found its legs (his first band was formed in 1988), he had seen innovation firsthand - and thought now was the time to step in again to contribute as a vitamin injection to the scene.

Arzenik's mission is to stay true to what industrial is about, but to have it move forward instead of reminiscing about and try to emulate the past masters. Using cinematic sound design and being influenced by more recent developments in other genres of metal as well as interesting explorations in gaming and film music, Arzenik has set out to break the mold and make "the old box" too obsolete to be confined by.

Arzenik has so far been a true solo project to be unrestricted by other influences than what Calle himself envisions. All writing, performing, recording, mixing and mastering has been done by just one man with a vision. This resulted in the release of "The Quantum Protocol" album on October 30, 2026.