Album Review: Fit for a King – Lonely God (Solid State Records)

Metalcore giants Fit for a King will release their brand-new (and eighth overall) album on August 1st, 2025. It’s called ‘Lonely God’ and comes via Solid State Records.

Always brilliant, always delivering something fresh, and always filled with intensity, Fit for a King are back with something very special indeed. An album that isn’t going to change the face of metalcore but shows (again) that this band are near untouchable within this genre. They embody the best parts of it, capable of experimentation, but always focused on delivering anthemic bangers that a listener can connect to on a more emotional level.

Beginning in gargantuan fashion, Begin the Sacrifice is an opener that hits hard. Frenetic instrumentation that has weight, modern melodic lulls that reach the soul, and vocals that alternate between soft and vulnerable, and epic and intense. It’s an incredible start, a bar setter, and the chorus is simply awesome.

Showing off more creativity while being inherently metalcore, The Temple doesn’t disappoint, Extinction is all about stompy aggression, No Tomorrow’s highly melodic chorus is balanced by unfiltered ferocity, and Sentient has some huge soundings riffs. It might sound like I’m glossing over these tracks, but trust me, they’re all bangers in different, but notably Fit for a King, ways. Creatively interesting and consistently anthemic, each flies by in a blur of vibrant metalcore infused with emotive potency.

It’s interesting to note that even though their sound has evolved and sounds more modern than ever, Fit for a King haven’t lost their edge and throughout the album they have the power to take the breath away. Something they do with the punchy drum and snarling vocal combo that features on Monolith, and something they do with the title track. Which can be best summarised as a chunky beast, with methodical rhythms, driven by pounding drums and roaring vocals.

The high bar set at the beginning hasn’t quite been reached yet though, and that finally changes with Between Us which is simply beautiful. The clean singing, excellent lyrics, morose melody, and ramping up of power touches the soul. Outstanding stuff and the perfect palette cleanser too. Ensuring there’s no desensitisation as the heavy returns with aplomb, deathcore-style aplomb on Blue Venom. Then the vocals scream bloody murder on Technium, a track with a really dark electronic vein running through it. Before the record wraps up with Shelter and Witness the End.

The former is the band at their most stripped back and vulnerable sounding, whereas the latter is a cinematically charged head banging inducing scream along. A massive finish, but one that feels right for an album with this much power in it. The best Fit for a King album to date? Debatable, but the conversation is worth having, which should speak volumes about the record’s overall brilliance. I love it and I think you will too.

Fit for a King – Lonely God Track Listing:

1. Begin The Sacrifice
2. The Temple
3. Extinction
4. No Tomorrow
5. Sentient
6. Monolith
7. Lonely God
8. Between Us
9. Blue Venom
10. Technium
11. Shelter
12. Witness The End

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