In case you haven’t heard, WDHA’s Rock The Park is back with a vengeance, featuring Halestorm, I Prevail, Hollywood Undead, and Fit For A King at the PNC Bank Arts Center on Friday, July 26th! Now that the cat’s out of the bag, WDHA is taking a look back at Fit For A King’s headlining set at Irving Plaza on March 5th, 2023! According to one of our promotions assistants, Nick “Chewie” Polis who took the pictures, it was an amazing night, with a career spanning set that featured both the heaviest the band’s ever gotten with tracks like “Eyes Roll Back” and “Backbreaker”, as well as their softer side in “Reaching Out” and “When Everything Means Nothing.”
Fit For A King, sometimes shortened to FFAK by fans, is a metalcore band formed in 2007 in Tyler Texas. While the group currently doesn’t have any original members, vocalist Ryan Kirby and guitarist Bobby Lynge has been with them since before their debut album, Descendants (2011), which has allowed the band to keep a consistent sound and direction. Throughout their career, the band has had considerable success on the charts, including their 2020 album The Path topping the Christian Albums chart, and peaking at number 2 on the Top Hard Rock Albums and number 6 on the Top Rock Albums charts. The group has also been on a near-consistent touring grind, having just finished two legs of the co-headlined Metalcore Dropouts tour with The Devil Wears Prada, which started shortly after their own headlining tour in support of their latest album The Hell We Create (2022). With the band releasing the single “Keeping Secrets” at the start of 2024, the potential for a new album in the near future is there, along with plenty more touring to follow for years to come.
Fit For A King played a 15 song set that included:
The Hell We Create
End (The Other Side)
Falling Through the Sky
Times Like This
Deathgrip
Vendetta
Reaper
Eyes Roll Back
Backbreaker
Reaching Out
Bitter End
The Price of Agony
What You Left Behind
When Everything Means Nothing
God of Fire
