The Blackening

The Blackening is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Machine Head. Released on March 27, 2007, in the United States, The Blackening sold 16,000 units in its first week, and became Machine Head's third highest charting release at number 54 on the Billboard 200, and charted in the Top 20 throughout many countries in the rest of the world. The Blackening has been certified gold by the BPI for sales in the UK in excess of 100,000 copies.

At the fifth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards and at the Kerrang! Awards in 2007, The Blackening won best album. The album also won a 2007 Danish Metal Award for International Album of the Year. In January 2008, it won a Swedish Metal Award for Best Foreign Metal.