President has announced Blood of Your Empire, the masked British rock band’s debut full-length, due Sept. 4 via Atlantic Records. The announcement is accompanied by a video for the album’s latest single, “Doom Loop.” President, which launched in 2025, operating under a deliberate cloak of anonymity, is rumored to be fronted by Charlie Simpson of pop-punk act Busted and post-hardcore outfit Fightstar. The band’s debut EP, “King of Terrors,” was released in the fall of 2025.
The band’s frontman said of “Doom Loop”: “The song is really about the strange tragedy of time — how we spend our lives chasing it, wasting it, and fearing it — only to realize its value once a moment is gone. It’s a reminder for people to be present while they are actually living their lives, not just remembering them afterwards.”
On the album, the frontman 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.”
The album cover reproduces “The Battle of Poitiers,” a painting by Eugène Delacroix that hangs in the Louvre. Fresh off its first U.S. run supporting Bad Omens, President will return to North America this fall for a sold-out headline tour promoted by Live Nation. The run kicks off Sept. 4 at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville and makes stops in Chicago, New York, Toronto, Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles before wrapping Oct. 14 at House of Blues in Dallas. Cenobia and Showing Teeth will support on select dates.
