On 4 July 2025, the band announced the release of a third single on social media, “Legalize Living”, to be released on 7 July 2025.
On 10 June 2025, the band announced on social media that a new single, “Paint A Picture”, would be released on 17 June 2025.
On 1 April 2025, the band released their lead single, “Enough Is Enough”, and announced that their seventh studio album titled The Hives Forever Forever the Hives would be released 29 August 2025, followed by a world tour.
In May 2023, the band confirmed that their sixth studio album, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons , would be released on 11 August 2023. The band also shared the album’s lead single “Bogus Operandi”, marking their first new release in four years. That same month, the band began a tour…
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In January 2023, the band shared a series of photos in which Howlin’ Pelle held up protest signs on Hollywood Boulevard that read “The Hives Must Album Now!” and “Honk If You Want a New The Hives Album”. A new series of merch was also shared, featuring both the former…
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After being unable to tour in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the band created a virtual world tour in January 2021 titled the World’s First World Wide Web World Tour which saw them perform live-streamed sets at country-specific times, with “shows” in Berlin , London, New York City,…
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In May 2019, the band released the single “I’m Alive” and followed it up with another single titled “Good Samaritan” a month later. The band toured the US in 2019 alongside fellow Swedish band Refused , with the run of dates dubbed the Scream Team Tour. Drummer Dangerous took a…
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Due to health reasons, Dr. Matt Destruction left the band in late 2013 and was replaced by Randy bassist Johan Gustafsson, who took the stage name The Johan and Only. On 13 February 2015, the band released the stand-alone single “Blood Red Moon”. The band’s activity became limited between 2015…
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In March 2012, the band announced their fifth studio album, Lex Hives , and released the first single from the album ” Go Right Ahead “. The song was performed live during an appearance at the Norwegian-Swedish talk show Skavlan on 30 March. After a run of live shows in…
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In January 2008, the band received the “Best Live Act” award at the Swedish Grammis and performed at the 2008 NHL All-Star Game in Atlanta , performing “Tick Tick Boom” during the players’ presentation. In July 2010, the band released an EP titled Tarred and Feathered , which consisted of…
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