Kill the Child

{{Short description|1995 album}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Kill the Child

| type = Live album

| artist = Swans

| cover = Swans Kill the Child.jpg

| alt = The text "Swans" and "Kill the Child" in all caps, in white on a black background. The years 1985, 1986, 1987 and the word "live" appear in the center.

| released = 1995

| recorded = 1985–87

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = 62:17

| label = Disaster Records
Atavistic Records

| producer = Michael Gira

| prev_title = Omniscience

| prev_year = 1992

| next_title = The Great Annihilator

| next_year = 1995

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r274530|pure_url=yes}}|title=Kill the Child |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=March 2, 2013}}

}}

Kill the Child is the sixth live album by the New York City band Swans, released in 1996. It was recorded from shows in 1985, 1986 and 1987 in Germany, Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom, and (unlisted) the United States. The album was mastered as a single track in an attempt to recreate the concert experience,{{Cite web |url=http://www.cosmik.com/aa-september01/reviews/review_swans.html |title=Kill The Child |accessdate=March 1, 2013 |work=cosmik |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225829/http://www.cosmik.com/aa-september01/reviews/review_swans.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=dead }} and focuses primarily on Gira-sung material from Children of God.