Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds release Live God live album on Dec 5

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will release Live God, a live album recorded during their 2024 and 2025 Wild God tour, on December 5. The 18-track set, issued on double vinyl, double CD and digital formats, collects performances from dates across the United Kingdom, Europe and North America and presents the Wild God album in full alongside classics such as Papa Won't Leave You, Henry, From Her to Eternity, Tupelo, Red Right Hand and selections from Cave and Warren Ellis's collaborative album Carnage.

The release is led by a live recording of the title track Wild God captured in Paris. The band said the album aims to convey the atmosphere of concerts they described as a deliberate counterpoint to contemporary anxieties. Cave called the run of shows "an antidote to despair," and longtime drummer Jim Sclavunos said the tour carried "a really buoyant, joyous spirit" that marked a contrast with the group's earlier, darker stage persona. "Transcendental is too pretentious a word, but it's something like that," he added in an interview, characterizing the mood as more embracing of a love of life.

Live God features contributions from the extended touring lineup that accompanied Cave and...