PRESIDENT

Anonymous UK collective PRESIDENT have shared a visualizer for “dark heaven,” the newest preview of their debut album Blood Of Your Empire, out September 4 via Atlantic Records. Pre-order it here.

The track opens in seasick distortion before dropping into an 808-driven verse, then hands the pre-chorus a command — “Gather ’round children, sing Hallelujah” — and lets a detuned, glitching riff carry the confession that follows: “I used to stare at the cross and cry out for God, but I’m not the person I was.” The accompanying video films fans hearing the song for the first time inside a church, reactions and all.

“‘dark heaven’ is a reflection on the contradictions of faith, and how something intended to unite humanity has so often been used to justify division, violence, and power,” the band say. “It isn’t an attack on belief itself; it’s about searching for something real beneath the noise, and asking what remains when certainty begins to crumble.”

That tension runs through the whole record, ten tracks written and produced by the band themselves. “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,” 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 cover art is Eugène Delacroix’s The Battle of Poitiers, which hangs in the Louvre.

PRESIDENT surfaced in 2025 under a cloak of minimalism and anonymity, prioritizing intent over image. Fresh off their first full U.S. run supporting Bad Omens, they headline their own tour this fall — kicking off September 4 at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville and wrapping October 14 at House of Blues in Dallas, with Cenobia and Showing Teeth on select dates. Every date is already sold out.