Bad Moon Rising is the third album by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, first released on Homestead Records in 1985.

It is a concept album themed around death and insanity, typical topics for early Sonic Youth. Each side of the the original release was a mostly continous song cycle, without any breaks between the songs, except Death Valley '69, which is a separate song.

A video, featuring appearances by Lung Leg and band members as serial killers and a montage of video related to war and death was shot for the song Death Valley '69. An image of Lung Leg from the video was used as the cover for EVOL.