The Hives are a Swedish garage
punk rock band formed in 1994 by
five teenagers from the industrial town of Fagersta. The band members
are Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (Per Almqvist), the energetic lead vocalist,
Nicholaus Arson (Niklas Almqvist), the crazy guitarist, Vigilante Carlstroem
(Mikael Karlsson Åström), also guitarrist, Dr. Matt Destruction (Mattias
Bernvall) the bass player and Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn) in the drums. They
are known for performing in matching black and white suits, which has changed
with each album.
The
Hives began to appear in several public places around their hometown and in
1995 the band was already known in almost entire Sweden. In 1996 they released
an EP called Oh Lord! When? How? that
presented the band to the world. In 1997 they released the album Barely Legal. In 1998 comes out another
EP A.K.A. IDIOT that contained four
new songs. In April 2000 the band released the album Veni Vidi Vicious and immediately they started to travel and touring
around the world for two years. This album yielded the singles "Hate to
Say I Told You So", "Main Offender", "Die, All
Right!", and "Supply and Demand." In the meantime, The Hives won
"Best International Band" and "Best Dressed Band" awards at
the 2003 NME Awards. After Barely Legal and
Veni Vidi Vicious, The Hives returned
with the album Tyrannosaurus Hives in
July 2004, which included the hit singles "Walk
Idiot Walk", "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" and "A
Little More for Little You". In October 2007 they released their fourth
studio album, The Black and White Album.
The Hives were featured in a Finish Line commercial performing
"Tick Tick Boom", as well as a Nike commercial featuring the song
"Return The Favour". "Tick Tick Boom" was also used in many
different advertisements including: the 2007 season of the NFL Network,
commercials for the CBS series Jericho and the USA series Burn Notice, as well
as the films Jumper, McGruber and Get Smart, and was also the official theme
song for WWE Survivor Series. The Hives song "Try It Again" was featured
in the trailer for the US film Get Him to the Greek. Finally in March of 2012 the
band announced their new album, Lex Hives, already in stores, through their own label, Disque Hives,
and it will be composed of twelve self-produced tracks, with a deluxe version
containing bonus tracks produced by Queens of the Stone Age frontman, Josh
Homme.
See below the
first single from the new album, "Go Right Ahead" and some of other amazing
songs from this great band, The Hives.
And, my favourite
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