Iceage are back with a new album—their first since 2021—next month. For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is out May 29th via Mexican Summer, and its announcement arrives alongside a music video for a new song, “Ember,” directed by the band and frontman Elias Rønnenfelt’s brother Ira. The clip captures a solid day of shenanigans, which include dirt-biking, graffitiing, flying a kite, brandishing various plushies and smoke flares, and befriending a herd of sheep. Check it out below.
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter was recorded in 2025 at Silence Studio in rural Sweden, the same space where Iceage made their 2014 album Plowing Into the Field of Love. Longtime friend-of-the-band Nis Bysted assisted with mixing and producing the LP. “The songs needed to be immediate, urgent, raw, and fast,” Rønnenfelt said in a press statement. “We wanted to try to shed any unnecessary weight. Catching outlets of energy is what excites us the most.”
“Ember” is the second single Iceage have shared from For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, following last month’s “Star.” Its release marked the group’s first new music since 2021’s Seek Shelter. In the interim, Rønnenfelt in particular has stayed busy, releasing his debut solo album, Heavy Glory, in 2024 and following it up with another LP, Speak Daggers, last year.
Revisit Madison Bloom’s 2021 profile Iceage’s Ruthless Evolution.
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter:
01 Ember
02 Match Head Girl
03 The Weak
04 No Fear
05 Salve for Every Sore
06 mother-of-pearl
07 Tender Blades
08 1835
09 Star
10 Lifetime
11 Holy Water
12 True Blue
