The Black Waltz[2] is the fourth full-length studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Kalmah and their first with keyboard player Marco Sneck.

[3] This album has them gravitating more towards thrash metal, which has often been cited as the Kokko brothers' primary musical influence.

The instrumental "Svieri Doroga" is a combination of the name of their first demo Svieri Obraza and a track on that demo entitled "Vezi Doroga".

The video for "The Groan of Wind"[4] shows the band members playing inside a cave, with alternating shots of a young boy and girl running from their possessed family members.

They are later rescued by a disfigured old man, the Swamplord (Odin), whose picture is on the cover of the album.