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Australian songwriters Nick Cave and Warren Ellis began working together in 1993, when Warren Ellis — who was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on February 14, 1965 — was hired to play violin on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' eighth album, Let Love In. Nick Cave, a fellow Victoria native who was born in Warracknabeal on September 22, 1957, soon made Warren Ellis a full-time member of his band. The two began writing songs together, starting with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 2001 release No More Shall We Part and continuing throughout the following two decades. They also began composing music for stage plays and film soundtracks, winning an Australian Film Award for their score of the 2005 John Hillcoat film The Proposition. One year later, they formed the alt-rock side project Grinderman while continuing their film projects. By the decade's end, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis had composed soundtracks for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the PBS documentary The English Surgeon, John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Road, and The Girls of Phnom Penh. They remained busy during the 2010s, as well, working on soundtracks for films like 2012's Lawless, 2014's Loin des Hommes, 2016's Hell or High Water, and 2017's Kings. After decades of collaborative work, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis released their first album as a proper duo, 2021's Carnage, which reached Number 3 on Belgium's Ultratop Flanders and Number 11 on Portugal's AFP chart.
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