PRESIDENT have built their following on intrigue and the UK collective now have a debut album to show for it. President announce Blood Of Your Empire, arriving 4th September 2026 via Atlantic Records, alongside a video for first single ‘Doom Loop‘.
The band operate at the meeting point of heavy music, electronic experimentation and cinematic atmosphere, working under a deliberate veil of minimalism and anonymity since launching in 2025. It’s an approach that has let the music do the talking across a run of singles and live shows.
‘Doom Loop‘ sets the tone. “The song is really about the strange tragedy of time, how we spend our lives chasing it, wasting it, and fearing it, only to realise its value once a moment is gone,” President explain. “It’s a reminder for people to be present while they are actually living their lives, not just remembering them afterwards.”
The album digs into heavier territory still. “Blood Of Your Empire was born out of my own struggle with existential crisis and trying to make sense of belief, mortality, and humanity’s relationship with faith,” they continue. “Religion has inspired incredible compassion, purpose, and beauty in the world, but it has also been responsible for unimaginable suffering and bloodshed throughout history. This album lives in the tension between those two truths.” The artwork reinforces the theme, taking Eugène Delacroix’s painting The Battle of Poitiers, which hangs in the Louvre.
The ten-track record runs ‘Angel Wings‘, ‘Doom Loop‘, ‘dark heaven‘, ‘Pink Noise‘, ‘Mercy‘, ‘Sleepwalker‘, ‘Dionysus‘, ‘This Will Divide Us‘, ‘Hate Figure‘ (featuring Ando San) and ‘White Devil‘. It lands during a packed festival summer that takes in Slam Dunk, Download’s European cousins and a Wacken Open Air appearance.
We’re intrigued by what PRESIDENT are doing here. The anonymity could read as a gimmick, but the songs so far suggest a band with the substance to back up the mystique.
