PRESIDENT set for UK and European headline run as debut album arrives in September

PRESIDENT have announced their debut full-length album, Blood of Your Empire, set for release on 4th September 2026 via Atlantic Records, alongside a 13-date UK and European headline tour this autumn culminating at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.

The announcement comes fresh off the back of PRESIDENT’s first-ever full U.S. run supporting Bad Omens, a tour that has already sold out in its entirety. The band have also shared the video for their new single “Doom Loop”, which frontman PRESIDENT describes as being “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.”

Blood of Your Empire was written out of a deeply personal place. “The album was born out of my own struggle with existential crisis and trying to make sense of belief, mortality, and humanity’s relationship with faith,” PRESIDENT says. “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 record’s artwork is Eugène Delacroix’s The Battle of Poitiers, a painting that hangs in the Louvre.

The UK and European tour begins on 1st November in Stockholm and works through major European cities before reaching the UK in mid-November. Cardiff’s Depot kicks things off on 18th November, followed by Glasgow’s O2 Academy (19th), Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse (21st), and Birmingham’s O2 Academy (23rd), before the tour closes at O2 Academy Brixton on 24th November.

BLOOD OF YOUR EMPIRE: UK/European Tour

A pre-sale opens on 27th May at 10am, with general sale beginning on 29th May at 10am.

The 10-track album features previously released singles “Angel Wings” and “Mercy“, alongside “Doom Loop”, “dark heaven”, “Pink Noise”, “Sleepwalker”, “Dionysus”, “This Will Divide Us”, “White Devil” and “Hate Figure” (feat. Ando San).

Before the headline tour gets underway, PRESIDENT have a packed summer festival schedule across the continent. They play Slam Dunk this weekend (23rd and 24th May), and go on to appear at Rock Im Park, Rock am Ring, Greenfield Festival, Nova Rock, Graspop, Hurricane Festival, Hellfest and Wacken Open Air, among many others, before Lowlands in the Netherlands closes out the festival run on 21st August.

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Launching in 2025 and operating under a deliberately minimalist and anonymous identity, PRESIDENT exist at the intersection of heavy music, electronic experimentation and cinematic atmosphere. Now a multi-million streaming act, Blood of Your Empire looks set to be the moment the project steps fully into the light.

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