Live God

Live God is a live double album by the Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released on 5 December 2025 on the labels Bad Seed Ltd. and PIAS Recordings and was produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Live God was recorded between September and November 2024 while the band was on tour in Europe in support of their album Wild God (2024).^[1] The last show of that leg of the Wild God Tour was at the Accor Arena in Paris,^[2] where they recorded at least some of the album, including "Wild God".^[3]

In Live God, the Bad Seeds perform most of Wild God, interspersing the record with various songs from Cave's career.^[1]

Promotion and release

On 22 October 2025, the band announced Live God and previewed the record with a video of their performance of "Wild God".^[3] The album was later released on 5 December 2025 on the band's label Bad Seed Ltd. and PIAS Recordings. The CD and digital versions additionally contain "Long Dark Night" and "O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)" from Wild God and "White Elephant" from the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis album Carnage (2021).^[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	88/100^[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	8/10^[6]
Classic Rock	7/10^[7]
Classic Rock Italia	8/10^[8]
Hot Press	9/10^[9]
The Irish Times	^[10]
Mojo	^[2]
Spectrum Culture	84%^[11]
The Times	^[12]
Uncut	8/10^[1]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Live God received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 88 out of 100 from 5 critic scores.^[5] In an 8 out of 10 review for Clash, Chris Connor said that the set "captures the breadth of sounds Cave has dabbled in" and that it "should entice anyone who hasn't had the chance to see the icon in concert, still with plenty of fire in his belly."^[6]

Track listing

*Live God* track listing
No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Frogs"	Wild God (2024)	5:09
2.	"Wild God"	Wild God	5:19
3.	"O Children"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	5:48
4.	"From Her to Eternity"	From Her to Eternity (1984)	6:24
5.	"Long Dark Night" (^[a])	Wild God	5:14
6.	"Cinnamon Horses"	Wild God	5:24
7.	"Tupelo"	The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)	7:57
8.	"Conversion"	Wild God	5:51
9.	"Bright Horses"	Ghosteen (2019)	5:22
10.	"Joy"	Wild God	6:55
11.	"I Need You"	Skeleton Tree (2016)	4:31
12.	"Carnage"	Carnage (2021)	5:28
13.	"Red Right Hand"	Let Love In (1994)	6:32
14.	"White Elephant" (^[a])	Carnage	4:52
15.	"O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)" (^[a])	Wild God	4:56
16.	"Papa Won't Leave You, Henry"	Henry's Dream (1992)	6:18
17.	"Into My Arms"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	4:54
18.	"As the Waters Cover the Sea"	Wild God	2:20
Total length:	99:14

Personnel

Musician credits are adapted from Uncut magazine,^[1] with technical credits from Tidal.^[13]

Musicians

Nick Cave – vocals, piano
Warren Ellis – violin, tenor guitar, synthesiser
George Vjestica – guitar
Colin Greenwood – bass
Larry Mullins – drums, timpani, percussion
Carly Paradis – keyboards
Jim Sclavunos – percussion, vibraphone, tubular bells, drums
Wendi Rose, Janet Ramus, T. Jae Cole, Miça Townshend – backing vocals, percussion

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[14]	22
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[15]	9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[16]	7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[17]	25
Croatian International Albums (HDU)^[18]	5
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[19]	22
French Albums (SNEP)^[20]	95
French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP)^[21]	4
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[22]	14
German Rock & Metal Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[23]	4
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[24]	53
Irish Independent Albums (IRMA)^[25]	8
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[26]	11
Portuguese Albums (AFP)^[27]	87
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[28]	7
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[29]	97
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[30]	12
UK Albums (OCC)^[31]	33
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[32]	2

v t e Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Martyn P. Casey Nick Cave Warren Ellis Jim Sclavunos George Vjestica Thomas Wydler Barry Adamson Blixa Bargeld Mick Harvey James Johnston Anita Lane Kid Congo Powers Hugo Race Conway Savage Roland Wolf
Studio albums	From Her to Eternity The Firstborn Is Dead Kicking Against the Pricks Your Funeral... My Trial Tender Prey The Good Son Henry's Dream Let Love In Murder Ballads The Boatman's Call No More Shall We Part Nocturama Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Push the Sky Away Skeleton Tree Ghosteen Wild God
Live albums	Live Seeds Abattoir Blues Tour Live at the Royal Albert Hall Live from KCRW Idiot Prayer Live God
Compilations	The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities Part II
Extended plays	Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen
Singles	"In the Ghetto" "Tupelo" "The Singer" "The Mercy Seat" "Deanna" "The Ship Song" "The Weeping Song" "Straight to You" "I Had a Dream, Joe" "What a Wonderful World" "Do You Love Me?" "Loverman" "Red Right Hand" "Where the Wild Roses Grow" "Henry Lee" "Into My Arms" "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For" "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" "Love Letter" "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" "More News from Nowhere" "We No Who U R" "Jubilee Street"
Other songs	"From Her to Eternity" "The Carny"
Cave and Ellis	The Proposition The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Road West of Memphis Lawless Far from Men Hell or High Water Wind River Carnage
Grinderman	Grinderman Grinderman 2 "Get It On" "No Pussy Blues" "(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free" "Heathen Child" "Worm Tamer" "Palaces of Montezuma" Grinderman discography
Related articles	Discography Bad Seeds members 20,000 Days on Earth One More Time With Feeling Idiot Prayer This Much I Know to Be True And the Ass Saw the Angel The Birthday Party Dirty Three Ghosts… of the Civil Dead Original Seeds Shell Shock Tuff Monks Sex O'Clock
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