Fit For An Autopsy are not walking into the Heaviest Tour of the Year empty-handed.
The New Jersey deathcore outfit dropped "The Wretch" this week — a fresh single produced by guitarist Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio, the same New Jersey facility where the band has built every record since The Great Collapse. The track premiered on SiriusXM before hitting streaming officially, which is a solid signal this wasn't a throwaway drop. You don't waste a SiriusXM premiere on filler.
The timing is deliberate. Starting March 17, Fit For An Autopsy join Lamb of God, Kublai Khan TX, and Sanguisugabogg on a run that promoters are calling the Heaviest Tour of the Year — and it's hard to argue with the billing. That's a deathcore standout, an American thrash institution, a hardcore-adjacent beatdown force, and a death metal act that's spent the last two years becoming one of the most talked-about bands in underground metal. Four bands. One bill. No fluff.
Putney's presence as both player and producer is the constant thread running through Fit For An Autopsy's discography. Since taking over production duties on Hellbound, he's refined the band's sound without sanding down its edges — the low end stays punishing, the dynamics are controlled but not clinical, and the heaviness reads as earned rather than engineered. "The Wretch" lands in that same pocket: surgical structure over raw brutality, which is the band's whole mode.
Their latest album, The Nothing That Is, came out in October 2024 and continued the upward trajectory that started with On What the Future Holds — their first record to crack the Top 25 of the Billboard 200. The new single doesn't appear to be tied to an announced album cycle yet, but dropping new material right before a major tour is standard practice for a band that understands how to keep their audience engaged between records.
Tour Dates — With Lamb of God, Kublai Khan TX & Sanguisugabogg
- 03/17 — National Harbor, MD — The Theater MGM National Harbor
- 03/19 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
- 03/20 — Toronto, ON — GCT Theatre
- 03/22 — Detroit, MI — Fox Theatre
- 03/24 — Minneapolis, MN — Armory
- 03/25 — Chicago, IL — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
- 03/27 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium
- 03/28 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union Event Center
- 03/30 — Portland, OR — Theater of the Clouds
- 03/31 — Seattle, WA — WAMU Theater
- 04/01 — Vancouver, BC — PNE Forum
- 04/03 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic
- 04/04 — Inglewood, CA — YouTube Theater
- 04/05 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre
- 04/07 — Albuquerque, NM — Revel Entertainment Center
- 04/10 — Austin, TX — Moody Amphitheater
- 04/11 — Irving, TX — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
- 04/12 — Houston, TX — 713 Music Hall
- 04/14 — Nashville, TN — War Memorial Auditorium
- 04/15 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre
- 04/16 — Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater
- 04/18 — Reading, PA — Santander Arena
- 04/19 — Virginia Beach, VA — The Dome
- 04/21 — Buffalo, NY — Buffalo RiverWorks
- 04/23 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
- 04/25 — Uncasville, CT — Mohegan Sun Arena
- 04/26 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Fit For An Autopsy also have a handful of headlining club dates peppered around the main run — Syracuse on March 18, Cleveland on March 31, and Pittsburgh on April 22, all with regional support acts. These sideshows are the move if you want to see FFAA in a room that actually responds to the music the way it deserves.
The band hasn't announced an album follow-up to The Nothing That Is yet, but the energy around "The Wretch" suggests they're not coasting on that record either. Putney's studio operation at Graphic Nature Audio runs year-round, and the band has historically kept short turnarounds between writing and recording. Watch for more signals once the tour wraps.
Tickets for the main run are available via Ticketmaster. For the full metal tour calendar and breaking metal news, stay locked on Metal Mantra.
If you want to dig into what Fit For An Autopsy has been building toward, The Nothing That Is is on Amazon and streaming everywhere.
