Tinderbox is the seventh studio album by English alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1986. It was the first full-length effort recorded with new guitarist John Valentine Carruthers; Carruthers had previously only added a few parts on 1984's The Thorn EP. The first recording sessions for this album took place at Hansa by the Wall in Berlin in May 1985.

Two songs were released as singles between late 1985 and early 1986, "Cities in Dust" and "Candyman". Tinderbox peaked at No. 13 in the UK Albums Chart, and at No. 88 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart in the week of 5 July.Tinderbox is retrospectively considered a classic by both critics and musicians.

The album was reissued in a remastered and expanded edition in 2009.

The album was written to be presented live on stage in full like Juju was in 1981 on its subsequent tour. After rehearsing the songs for months, the band went abroad in Berlin to record the new material (they had previously recorded in Germany, in Bavaria, for The Thorn EP). The lead single, "Cities in Dust", was the only track that was entirely recorded in London at Matrix studio in August. The rest of the vocal parts were done later in the year at Air Studio.

At the beginning of the song "92°", there is a sample from the film It Came from Outer Space (1953) with the line: "Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it's too hot to move. But just 92, people get irritable".

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