After a restful hiatus, Heilung is waking up. The world famous ritual collective is working on their highly-anticipated fourth full-length studio album.

While fans around the globe eagerly await their next album, today, Heilung is excited to share “Seidh”, the second single from Sagas, a collection of recordings that core members Kai Uwe Faust, Maria Franz and Christopher Juul created in collaboration with Ninja Theory for the award-winning video game Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga.

Previously performed live at The Game Awards in 2023, “Seidh” invokes the Norse mythology that guides Senua on her quest through 9th century Iceland. The song draws its breath from the oldest layers of the North, where ritual, poetry and prophecy were not yet separated. At its center stands the völva, who, through chant, rhythm and altered states of consciousness, opens a space where the unseen begins to speak.

Watch the music video for “Seidh” below:

The music video for “Seidh” was directed by Gornoss (@gornoss). It is the third in a trilogy of videos from Sagas that deal with the trauma induced by warfare. The second part, “Læknisgaldr”, has been viewed 981K times on YouTube during the past four weeks.

Stream “Seidh”: https://orcd.co/heilungseidh

Sagas comes out December 11, 2026 on Season of Mist. The deluxe CD and vinyl editions of Sagas include Ambient, which features eight additional soundscapes that Heilung recorded to draw listeners even deeper into the world of Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga.

Pre-order Sagas

https://orcd.co/heilungsagas

When you walk an unknown path, it will reveal itself while you explore it.

This is what happened when Heilung and Gornoss began their adventure this May in creating the videos for Sagas.

“We knew we wanted to tell a story about healing from trauma, and the choice of song landed on ‘Læknisgaldr’”, Heilung core member Maria Franz says. “A tiny team with a great mission traveled first to a viking market in Borre, Norway, and then to rainy mountains in Iceland. But during the filming, it became clear that the story was too big for one video only. We instinctively knew that the next chapter needed to be to our song, ‘Seidh’”.

“To fulfill the vision for ‘Seidh’, there was no doubt that we had to bring the dancing of our Haarii warriors, who many might recognize from our live shows”, Franz continues. “The journey therefore brought us to a forest in The Netherlands. And as we followed the path, the story unfolded and revealed itself further... We now had too much to tell for only two videos.

This saga will now be told in three parts about trauma, healing and vision.

In part two, ‘Læknisgaldr’, you participated in the healing.

In part three, ‘Seidh’, we give you the vision.

And finally in part one, you will witness the trauma in the still to be released ‘Slagt’”.

Additional video credits

Produced by Eudaimonia APS/Maria Franz

Filmed on location at Voedselbos De Reiziger in The Netherlands,

Árdalur in Iceland, and Holtug kridtbrud, Vikingelandsbyen | Albertslund and Magleby skov in Denmark

Camera, Lightening and Editing – Gornoss

Additional Camera Operator – Ruben Terlouw

Colorist and Visual Effects - Teddy Masson

Mask creator - Vargr Ars Macabra

Special Effects Makeup – Avalon Middelton

Location Manager – Líam O’Malley

Location Caretaker - Steven A. Pilon

Landowner – Pétur Jónsson

Runner – Jessica Martinez

Warriors – Mitchell Bosch, Nina Cornelia Schilp, Chloé Alicia Bakker de Poorter, Gwydion Zomer, Nadiia Kalamieiets, Rowan Schuddeboom, Edward Boyter, Elbrich Vunderink Schoorstra, Egill Óskar Gíslason, Sigurjon Arason, Kristjón Rúnar Halldórsson, Kristján Logi Einarsson ísfeld, Jón Gestur Björgvinsson, Theodór Árni Söebech Hansson, Eydìs Moon Guðmundsdóttir, Natalía Ósk R. Snædal, Diðrik Mason Sigurðsson, Daníel Örn A. Linduson, Andri Björn Birgisson, Heimdall Apeland, Ísleifur Gisurrarson, Bjorgvín Hafn Ásmundson

After completing their 2025 Amplified History tour, Heilung went on hiatus. Following a restful period, in September 2026, the collective announced that they would return to the recording studio in October to record their fourth studio album.

They also announced Sagas, a collection of recordings that Franz, Faust and Juul created in collaboration with Ninja Theory for Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga, including many recordings that don’t appear in the video game. Now available in full for the first time on CD, vinyl and digital platforms, these recordings capture the game’s epic journey while also adding the Icelandic landscape to the ritual collective’s unmistakable sound. Lead single “Læknisgaldr” remedies an affliction through the simple act of repetition, like water running over stone.

The special edition of Sagas includes Sagas Ambient, a bonus disc of eight distinct tracks: ambient soundscapes that Heilung built to immerse gamers even deeper in the world of Hellblade II.

“Sagas holds a special place in Heilung’s discography”, Faust says. “The ideas that we composed and developed with Ninja Theory for Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga soon took on a life of their own after Chris, Maria and I came home from a formative 10-day journey through Iceland. The landscape of the country helped shape the sonic identity of the material and inspired us to write far more than could be used in the game. The pieces collected on Sagas and Ambient now stand on their own and can be experienced as fully realized Heilung music. After almost eight years since its creation, we are grateful to finally be able to share this material and present it to our listeners as part of our creative journey”.

More news about Heilung’s fourth studio album is coming soon.

Line-up

Kai Uwe Faust

Christopher Juul

Maria Franz

Production Credits

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at LAVA Studio.

Produced, Mixed, Mastered and Engineered by Christopher Juul.

Cover Art

Kai Uwe Faust

Christopher Juul

Maria Franz