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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads radiohead and strikingly personal portraits ofIn a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims' blood. Murder Ballads, the ninth studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is a gruesome, blood splattered reimagining of English ballads, American folk and blues music, and classic