In one of its several iterations in the past, the band briefly had a member named Kane. Kane named the product at hand "curium" as a play on the word curiosity. The music was a thing to provoke curiosity, to be explored further, to pique interests. Although Kane's place in the band was brief, this Philosophy lives on.

The band has since learned that Curium is an element in the periodic table named in honor of Marie Curie. Its atomic number is 96, considered a "rare earth element", and radioactive. It seemed acceptable to apply these properties to the definition of the music.

The music is also often regarded as a drug. A drug made out of curium. A mind-altering, volatile substance that provokes the curious to ask, "what if I took some more?"