Masked pop-metal outfit President have introduced their debut album, Blood Of Your Empire, and launched its lead single, Doom Loop.
The nameless quartet will drop their first full-length assertion through Atlantic Data on September 4. Pre-orders at the moment are dwell. The brand new single comes with a shiny music video and is out there to look at beneath.
President’s singer says of the monitor: “The track is actually concerning the unusual tragedy of time – how we spend our lives chasing it, losing it, and fearing it – solely to understand its worth as soon as a second is gone. It’s a reminder for individuals to be current whereas they’re really dwelling their lives, not simply remembering them afterwards.”
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Of the album, he provides: “Blood Of Your Empire was born out of my very own battle with existential disaster and making an attempt to make sense of perception, mortality, and humanity’s relationship with religion.
“Faith has impressed unimaginable compassion, goal, and sweetness on the earth – but it surely has additionally been liable for unimaginable struggling and bloodshed all through historical past. This album lives within the rigidity between these two truths. Writing it grew to become a approach for me to confront the concern, confusion, and questions I’ve carried for years, and switch them into one thing I am really happy with.”
Blood Of Your Empire can have 10 tracks, together with Doom Loop and former single Mercy. Hate Determine will function prog/hip-hop innovator Ando San, who’s supported the band previously and is signed to their and Sleep Token’s administration firm, Future Historical past. Monitor seven, Dionysus, beforehand appeared on their debut EP, King Of Terrors.
President have been probably the most talked-about new bands of 2025, debuting by having their title seem on the poster for that 12 months’s Obtain pageant, regardless of having not launched a single track as much as that time. Their efficiency on the pageant’s Dogtooth stage was so anticipated that the tent overflowed. They launched King Of Terrors final September.
Hammer’s Danni Leivers gave the EP a three-and-a-half-star evaluate, saying that whereas the band confirmed promise, there have been simple similarities to fellow fast-rising, masked cult Sleep Token, who additionally gelled pop, steel and different genres.
“[In The Name Of The Father], an exciting slab of metalcore, has already been streamed greater than 9 million occasions, boasts a lofty refrain – albeit with a divisive stage of autotune on President’s voice – and hits onerous with a Sleep Token-esque breakdown,” Leivers wrote.
“In the meantime, Fearless goals for a similar heights as Architects’ enviornment steel seize, For These That Want To Exist. Each are spectacular, however hardly as distinctive or life-changing as a breathless web would allow you to imagine.”
President have a stacked dwell schedule for 2026, with their subsequent present going down at Slam Dunk pageant in Hatfield, UK on Saturday, Could 23. They’ll play extra European pageant levels in the summertime earlier than jetting to North within the autumn, the place they’ll headline from September to October.
President – Blood Of Your Empire:
- Angel Wings
- Doom Loop
- Darkish Heaven
- Pink Noise
- Mercy
- Sleepwalker
- Dionysus
- This Will Divide Us
- Hate Determine (feat. Ando San)
- White Satan
