“To the DEATH and far beyond!”: This iconic black metal band have announced they’re splitting up – but not before one final album

Black metal band Watain.

2025 is the year of the long goodbye. Megadeth announced their upcoming seventeenth album will be their last, Sepultura are midway through an 18-month-long farewell tour, UK stoner warhorses Orange Goblin will take their final bow at the end of the year, and Brit ragers Svalbard gave notice that they’ll be shutting up shop in 2026.

Now we can add Watain to that list. The Swedish black metal furies have revealed that their next album will be their last.