Album Rating: 2.0

yeah, this is pretty dogger. it's biggest problem for me is that it's painfully boring

Album Rating: 2.5

"it's biggest problem for me is that it's painfully boring"

Pretty much.

Listened to this a handful of times since release, I can remember 'Fearless' and that's about it.

Album Rating: 1.0

President vocalist defends band against industry plant allegations in newest issue of Metal Hammer.

“People find it hard to accept that something can just explode organically”

Album Rating: 1.0

get invited to major fests with zero songs out haha yep oRgAnIc

Album Rating: 3.5

I may like this band but I wont deny its an industry plant. no real artist gets millions of listeners on the first piece of music they put out. its hard to accept because it doesn't happen on its own.

Album Rating: 1.0

Exactly. As if I couldn't dislike this band more, their frontman seems to be the most pretentious hypocrite. And as much as I dislike Sleep Token, they actually exploded organically and didn't have hype from a label before even releasing a single song.

Album Rating: 3.5

damn, really? thats a shame. i don't pay attention to anything about his band outside the music, looks like i'm doing myself a favor. then again, i shouldn't expect much from the pop metalcore whatever crowd.

Album Rating: 1.0

All the magazines wrote about them before even announcing any music because the label hyped them up beyond belief. I think they have the same label as Sleep Token, or had, which would explain a lot.

I remember when the magazines started glazing and hyping this fuckwit up and i was like "who in the hell are you?" Had like one song and was treated as the second coming of Pop metal jesus. Like: No you are just desperately riding sleep tokens coattails and following their branding plan.

Plant or not this "band" is nothing but industry masturbatory slop. Pop metal is attrocious and i swear peoples standards for music as an artform is going down the shitter

Huh turns out i have a lot of pent up anger against bands like this and sleeptoken

Album Rating: 3.5

i agree but all i say is let me enjoy just a tiny bit of industry slop

honestly talking to people about metal irl for me is people saying poppy went death metal or something (that's just the most recent example). better than sleep token worshippers but still.

Oh enjoy your stuff we all have something we enjoy thats a bit trashy. Enjoy what you enjoy

Album Rating: 2.5

"President aren’t an industry plant band, says the lead singer of President: “People find it hard to accept that something can just explode organically”"

"He elaborates: “If it [the Download performance] went wrong, it would have been a fucking disaster. But it spurred me on to rise to the challenge."

Sure, they might not be a "plant" per se, but no band with zero industry connections (or even any released material!) is getting a place at Download without some form of predetermined favouritism. The fact that he deliberately sidesteps this point while framing their appearance at Download as some kind of supposed risk is plenty enough of an indicator that the band 100% received industry assistance before even releasing a single song.

Album Rating: 4.0

The actual music on this makes perfect sense given Charlie Simpson's last solo album Hope is a Drug, and Fightstar's last album Behind the Devil's Back, as this is essentially a 50/50 mix of the two. In that context I enjoy it - I don't think it's his best work but it's good to hear him doing heavy stuff again and there are some top tier choruses



If they presented as a normal band, no one would be surprised with them getting the Download festival slot and early fan base because of who he is. But without the imagery and marketing it would have been nowhere near as big, bringing them much more attention good and bad. In a way I'd prefer it without the imagery to avoid the circus but it's still funny how Charlie has inadvertently triggered so many purists again 20 years after the first time so it's prob worth it

Album Rating: 1.5

idk fam I wouldn’t call myself a purist, I love Ghost and Avenged Sevenfold. This is just the audio equivalent of ambien. The added “anonymity” gimmick just makes it annoying on top of boring.

Album Rating: 3.5

i dunno man attention whoring always rubs me the wrong way

if you got music great, you want to get it out even better. but man label assistance and denying accusations to stir up more attention feels gross. plus the gimmick is super surface level. i like a good one but you gotta put effort into it.

Album Rating: 1.5

The virgin president vs the gooner sleep token vs the chad Ghost

Album Rating: 1.0

UK doesn't even have a president. Stupid band haha

Album Rating: 1.5

Stupida fuckin band

Im not a purist either but the media nonsense is pissing me off and then having people act lile its the best """""metal""""" ever

Album Rating: 3.5

it's either the worst or best metal ever, no in between