Black Metal is the second album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released in November 1982 during the new wave of British heavy metal, and is considered a major influence on the speed metal, thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The album lent its name to the black metal subgenre, however its music was an early form of extreme metal which still had roots in traditional heavy metal. AllMusic described it as "sowing the seeds of much that would be referred to as extreme metal", and Moynihan & Søderlind in their book Lords of Chaos affirmed that the album "carved in stone some of [black metal's] essential features". Nevertheless, its lyrics and imagery were a major influence on the early Norwegian black metal scene.