Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records. The album further cemented the darkening sound created by Alan Wilder, which the band later used for their subsequent albums Music for the Masses, Violator, and Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Black Celebration reached number four on the UK Albums Chart, and has been cited as one of the most influential albums of the 1980s. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Black Celebration Tour. Three years after its release, Spin ranked it at number 15 on its “25 Greatest Albums of All Time” list.

Contemporaneous reviews for Black Celebration in the British press were mixed. Melody Maker’s Steve Sutherland lambasted the album and wrote that Depeche Mode came off as “pussycats desperate to appear perverted as an escape from the superficiality of teen stardom” and Sounds published a similarly scathing review. While criticizing chief songwriter Martin Gore’s “adolescent fragments of despair”, Sean O’Hagan of NME nonetheless praised Black Celebration’s “perfectly constructed jigsaw melodies” and concluded, “When the songs address topics other than the composer’s state of mind – as on the evocative exploration of loneliness that is ‘World Full of Nothing’ – Depeche Mode sound like a lot more than just a high tech, low-life melodrama.” Betty Page of Record Mirror felt that the band should be admired for their “refusal to follow anything but their own fashion” and “unswerving ability to come up with great, fresh melodies.”

Black Celebration has since been reappraised in retrospective reviews. In 2007, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone referred to the album as an “instant classic for the band’s fans” that at the time of its release had seemingly been “utterly ignored by everybody else.”

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails cited Black Celebration, and its subsequent tour, as an influence and said it helped inspire him to write the album Pretty Hate Machine (1989).