It has b een a busy year for Red Empire so far. Their debut album, which has captured the band’s trademark well-crafted melodic sound, was released online and in stores in February and has received a warm reception ahead of their Irish tour this July. The band led up to the album release with a number of EP releases including ‘Small Mercies’ and 'The Truth of You'. As a result of these releases Red Empire were chosen as the nationwide UTV Radio Group's 'Select Irish Artist of the month'. In addition to this the lads were chosen as 98FM's 'Home Grown Heroes' and DCFM's 'Tune of the week'. Red Empire were also earmarked for success on RTÉ Radio 1's 'The John Murray Show' (where they played a live session as well as being play-listed by RTÉ Radio) and Today FM's 'The Mix-Up'. Red Empire also appeared on national television performing live on RTÉ's 'The Saturday Night Show' and 'Two Tube' and TG4's 'Róisín'. During some of these TV performances the band played their single 'Deliver Me' which they have also translated into Japanese and released under the title, 'Michibiki'.
Red Empire's music videos for "Small Mercies" and "The Truth of You" have each won the 'Best Music Video' award at "The Dublin International Film & Music Awards" and "The Underground Cinema Awards" respectively. The band pride themselves on the strong impact of their videos and they enjoy a great artistic relationship with their visual collaborator, November Seven Films.