Iceage are back with ‘The Weak’ — New album drops May 29th

Iceage are back and they mean business. The Copenhagen post-punk veterans have shared The Weak, the latest single from their forthcoming album ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’, due May 29th via Mexican Summer — and it hits like a freight train.

Premiered by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 6, The Weak follows last month’s Ember, which Stereogum called “the album’s barnburner of an opener.” If that was the warmup, this is the sprint — jittery, jangling, and surging with a kind of coiled energy that snaps loose at exactly the right moment. Full speed, no brakes.

Five Years in the Making

‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’ is Iceage’s first album in five years, and by the sounds of it, the time away only sharpened things. The record is described as their tightest yet — even glossy in places — but never so polished it loses the pulse. Expect wordless howls, nastily detuned riffs bending into harmony, handclaps, breakdowns, and what sounds like a chaotic choral break played on pennywhistles. Classic Iceage, cranked up.

Produced and mixed by the band alongside Nis Bysted, the album was tracked at Silence Studio — a modest house tucked in rural Sweden near the Norwegian border. Here’s the kicker: it’s the same studio where they recorded 2014’s ‘Plowing Into the Field of Love’. They went back on purpose. They wanted that same electric, room-on-fire energy.

Raw, Live, and on the Edge

The approach was deliberately stripped down — minimal overdubs, full takes, decisions made in the moment. The lyrics were written just weeks before the sessions began, keeping everything urgent and unguarded. No overthinking, no curated “sound.” Just a band of lifers, leaning on thousands of hours of shared stage time since they were teenagers, playing like everything’s on the line.

As the band put it, the record is “bright and energetic… both fun and as serious as ever, growing and glowing through love.” That pretty much says it all.

‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’ track list

1. Ember
2. Match Head Girl
3. The Weak
4. No Fear
5. Salve for Every Sore
6. mother-of-pearl
7. Tender Blades
8. 1835
9. Star
10. Lifetime
11. Holy Water
12. True Blue

Pre-order ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’ here.

Tour Dates

Fri. Aug. 14 — Copenhagen, DK @ Syd For Solen

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