Joshua Fit For Battle was a prominent hardcore band based out of Newark, Delaware. Despite Joshua Fit For Battle's effort to avoid categorization, both fans and critics often consider the band a product of the emotional hardcore uprise during the late 1990's. The band was home to ex-members of several notable Delawarian bands, such as the Bessemer Process, Union, Coffin, and Year of the Comet. Joshua Fit For Battle's career spanned from 1998 to 2005, until the group disbanded.