PRESIDENT unveil Blood Of Your Empire as their sold-out headline run begins
PRESIDENT have released their debut album Blood Of Your Empire via Atlantic Records, arriving as the UK-based collective begin their first headline tour.
The 10-track record follows a run of singles including Angel Wings, DOOM LOOP, dark heaven and Mercy, with the band’s stark, anonymous presentation continuing across a full-length shaped by questions of faith, mortality and human conflict.
Speaking about the record, PRESIDENT said: “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. 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. Writing it became a way for me to confront the fear, confusion, and questions I’ve carried for years, and turn them into something I’m truly proud of.”
A record built around faith, fear and conflict
The album’s artwork uses Eugène Delacroix’s painting The Battle of Poitiers, held at the Louvre, extending the religious and historical imagery running through the release. The tracklist also includes Hate Figure, which features Ando San.
Stream Blood Of Your Empire here.
Blood Of Your Empire tracklist
- Angel Wings
- DOOM LOOP
- dark heaven
- Pink Noise
- Mercy
- Sleepwalker
- Dionysus
- This Will Divide Us
- Hate Figure (feat. Ando San)
- White Devil
Sold-out dates across North America, the UK and Europe
PRESIDENT’s first headline tour is sold out throughout North America, with Showing Teeth joining on selected dates. The run will then move to Europe and the UK in November, including headline nights in Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London.
- 4 September — Nashville, TN — Brooklyn Bowl
- 5 September — St. Louis, MO — Delmar Hall
- 8 September — Chicago, IL — Riviera Theatre
- 10 September — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
- 11 September — Toronto, ON — Danforth Music Hall
- 12 September — Montreal, QC — MTELUS
- 13 September — Boston, MA — Big Night Live
- 15 September — Philadelphia, PA — Theatre of Living Arts
- 16 September — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore Silver Spring
- 19 September — Huntsville, AL — Mars Music Hall
- 20 September — Charlotte, NC — The Underground (Cenobia only)
- 22 September — Lake Buena Vista, FL — House of Blues
- 23 September — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theatre
- 25 September — Kansas City, MO — Warehouse On Broadway
- 26 September — Denver, CO — Summit Music Hall
- 28 September — Salt Lake City, UT — The Depot
- 29 September — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl
- 1 October — Garden City, ID — Revolution Concert House and Event Center
- 2 October — Seattle, WA — Neptune Theatre
- 6 October — Berkeley, CA — The UC Theatre
- 7 October — Los Angeles, CA — The Wiltern
- 9 October — San Diego, CA — House of Blues
- 10 October — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren
- 12 October — San Antonio, TX — The Aztec Theatre
- 13 October — Houston, TX — House of Blues
- 14 October — Dallas, TX — House of Blues
- 1 November — Stockholm, Sweden — Slaktkyrkan
- 2 November — Oslo, Norway — Rockefeller
- 3 November — Copenhagen, Denmark — Amager Bio
- 5 November — Berlin, Germany — Kesselhaus
- 6 November — Hamburg, Germany — Docks
- 7 November — Cologne, Germany — Live Music Hall
- 14 November — Paris, France — Elysee Monmartre
- 16 November — Brussels, Belgium — Ancienne Belgique
- 18 November — Cardiff, United Kingdom — Depot
- 19 November — Glasgow, United Kingdom — O2 Academy
- 21 November — Manchester, United Kingdom — O2 Victoria Warehouse
- 23 November — Birmingham, United Kingdom — O2 Academy
- 24 November — London, United Kingdom — O2 Academy Brixton
