Fit for a King, also known as FFAK, is an American Christian metalcore band from both Dallas and Tyler, Texas that formed in 2007. They see the band as an “opportunity to spread the gospel of Christ” and their name was inspired by the Bible verse Luke 9:62:

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

FFAK released two EPs independently. Ryan Kirby joined in 2010, leading to the release of their first album Descendants in 2011. After signing with Solid State Records in 2012, the label re-released Descendants. In 2013, FFAK as the band recorded Creation/Destruction, Kirby explained that the band was “overflowing with positivity” and “ready to write the heaviest stuff ever”. The band’s bassist/vocalist left the band soon after, so Ryan ‘Tuck’ O’Leary was recruited one week before recording 2014’s Slave To Nothing.

When the album “didn’t do as well as we wanted it to”, 2016’s Deathgrip became an angrier, topical album. 2018’s Dark Skies also proved to be:

…really negative and angry …I felt absolutely no positive emotions towards anything when it came to us looking into the future. That’s both within the band but also in our country.

2020’s The Path found the band trying to be more positive as “a motivational record”, with Kirby adding:

I wanted to write an album that was encouraging people to find their own path … I want to motivate people to find their own path out of hell … Our message right now is basically to keep going.