Ember is the upcoming sixth studio album by American rock band Breaking Benjamin, produced by lead singer and guitarist Benjamin Burnley. It is scheduled for release on April 13, 2018. The first single, "Red Cold River", was released on January 5, 2018. A second song, "Feed the Wolf", was released on January 26, 2018.

After a string of successful platinum-selling albums in the US throughout the 2000s, the band went into a hiatus shortly after their 2009 album Dear Agony while frontman Benjamin Burnley dealt with a recurring, long-term illness. The break ended up being an extended one, with Burnley later taking former band members guitarist Aaron Fink and bassist Mark Klepaski to court over making unauthorized decisions without his consent on the band's 2011 greatest hits album Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin. Burnley won the case, retained the rights to the band and its namesake, and later reformed the band in 2014. Material for the band's next album, which was 2015's Dark Before Dawn, was written almost entirely by Burnley, who, towards the end, reformed an entirely new lineup for the band - Jasen Rauch (guitar), Keith Wallen (guitar), Aaron Bruch (bass), and Shaun Foist (drums). Towards the end of the sessions, the band decided to collaborate together on a song, which ended up becoming the track "Never Again". The collaboration ended up being such a positive experience that Burnley decided to involve the entire band in the writing process for the their next studio album, Ember.

Writing for the album began in 2016, with recording primarily happening in 2017 and with Burnley producing. In August 2017, Burnley and Foist announced that the album had been recorded and submitted to their record label, with its release date pending the label's feedback. Dancer and actor Derek Hough (who had previously covered "Ashes of Eden" in a choreographed music video) has an appearance on the album, saying that the opportunity was "a dream come true". Burnley later explained that he reached out to Hough after seeing his cover of "Ashes of Eden", and that the song he features on is titled "The Dark of You".

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