FIT FOR A KING, those metalcore majesties (said no one ever 🙄), have graced us with a music video for “Witness The End”, featuring none other than MOTIONLESS IN WHITE’s screamer, Chris “Motionless” Cerulli. Because apparently, one band of breakdowns wasn’t enough, we needed a collab to truly usher in the apocalypse 🤘. This banger (questionable) will be on FIT FOR A KING’s eighth album, “Lonely God”, dropping August 1 via Solid State Records. Get ready for more of the same, folks! It was “produced” (and I use that term loosely) by Daniel Braunstein (SPIRITBOX), because if you’re going to sell your soul to the devil, you might as well do it with someone who knows how to EQ a snare drum 🥁.
“We didn’t care what anybody thought — we just wanted to write a deathcore song,” FIT FOR A KING proclaimed. Well, mission accomplished, I guess? 🤷 Sorry to break it to you, but it’s already been done a million times, but congrats on doing it too. “It turned out to be really special.” (Narrator: It wasn’t.) “Chris did not disappoint either.” (Narrator: He probably should have.)
“‘Witness The End’ offers the most unpredictable experience of any song on ‘Lonely God’.” Translation: it’s slightly less predictable than the other tracks, which are basically paint-by-numbers metalcore. “In terms of the lyrics, it was inspired by this Netflix miniseries ‘Midnight Mass’, which follows an old pastor who claims he experienced a miracle and became an angel, but he was really just bit by a vampire whose blood gave him youth again.” So, they watched a semi-decent show and thought, “Yeah, let’s write a metalcore song about that!” 🧛♂️ Genius! Original! Groundbreaking! NOT.
“Lonely God” track listing:
01. Begin The Sacrifice (Of your eardrums?)
02. The Temple (Of generic riffs)
03. Extinction (Of originality)
04. No Tomorrow (If you listen to this album)
05. Shelter (From this album, please)
06. Monolith (feat. Lochie Keogh) (Because they needed more screams)
07. Lonely God (Just like the listener will be after this)
08. Between Us (And this terrible song)
09. Sentient (I doubt it)
10. Blue Venom (Sounds like a bad energy drink)
11. Technium (feat. Landon Tewers) (More guests, please!)
12. Witness The End (feat. Chris Motionless) (Of your sanity)
And if you thought the album was torture enough, FIT FOR A KING has announced a fall 2025 headline tour. Tickets on sale now to witness the end of days! 💀 The trek kicks off on October 30 in Phoenix and runs through December 7 in Dallas. Prepare to mosh your way to oblivion! Supporting acts include MAKE THEM SUFFER (because misery loves company), SPITE (to add some extra venom), and 156/SILENCE (because who needs melody, amirite?).
FIT FOR A KING, bless their hearts, thinks their “brotherhood” fuels their music. 🙄 Their sound is a “sonic palette of metalcore unpredictability, alternative melody, and deathcore brutality laced with electronic alchemy.” (Translation: generic metalcore with some synth sprinkled on top). They’ve “weathered trials and tribulations,” like every other band ever. Formed in 2011, they unleashed their “independent debut” “Descendants” (which no one remembers). Then came “Creation/Destruction” (2013),“Slave To Nothing” (2014),“Deathgrip” (2016) and “The Path” (2020). And let’s not forget 2022’s “The Hell We Create”, which apparently charted high because Christian metalcore fans have low standards. Outburn said it has “new depth,” (debatable) and Kerrang! said “It hits hard in all the right places” (if you like generic breakdowns). They’ve somehow amassed half a billion streams with bangers like “When Everything Means Nothing” (accurate title), “The Price Of Agony” (also accurate), “Breaking The Mirror” (because their reflection told them to stop making music) and more. They’ve also collaborated with AUGUST BURNS RED, THE PLOT IN YOU, THE GHOST INSIDE, and WE CAME AS ROMANS. In 2025, you can hear their strength and camaraderie on “Lonely God”. (Or you could listen to literally anything else.)
FIT FOR A KING consists of Ryan Kirby on vocals (screaming into the void), Bobby Lynge on guitar (chugging away), Daniel Gailey on guitar (more chugging), Trey Celaya on drums (blast beats galore!), and Ryan “Tuck” O’Leary on bass/vocals (probably growling something unintelligible). Congratulations, guys! 🥳
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
