Destruction runs through the work of Nick Cave. There are howling winds across arid wastelands. There are murder ballads and fiendish criminals. There is addiction and sin. There are souls not so much lost as irreparably shattered, moving through an unforgiving world and negotiating the best they can. He once wrote narrative songs full of perverse deeds and twisted fates. Destruction, in fact, has been one of his greatest topics, whether self-inflicted or biblical or the cruelty people can wreak upon one another. And after 40-odd years of poeticizing death and desolation, he’s finally named an album Carnage.