After a seven-month timeout, Kent started another full-length album during the summer of 2001.
Following the release of Forever , the band embarked on a controversial tour across Sweden, which they later ended prematurely. They also played a few shows in England in an attempt to secure a record deal for international releases, but the effort was unsuccessful. After the tour, the members parted…
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In an interview in 2001, Joakim Berg was asked if they would tour outside Scandinavia again: “It’s not too late yet. But the question is whether you have the energy to do all the marketing and all the crap that’s required. I’m more interested in making great music than sitting…
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so in November 2000, Kent released the two-CD collection B-sidor 95–00 (B-Sides 95–00). It featured 21 b-sides and two new songs.
The Hives released their second studio album, Veni Vidi Vicious , in April 2000 through Burning Heart Records. The band members described the album as being like “a velvet glove with brass knuckles, both brutal and sophisticated at the same time”. The album yielded the singles ” Hate to Say…
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In April 2000, an English version of Hagnesta Hill was released, in which two songs from the Swedish version were replaced with two new English tracks (“Just Like Money” and “Quiet Heart”). The album was also released in a limited digipack with one of the excluded songs, “A Timekill to…
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The latter half of 2000 and much of 2001 saw the band construct their own recording studio in which they would record much of their sixth album.
Further albums For Monkeys and compilation The Melancholy Collection followed, but the band’s popularity increased in 2000 with the release of Pennybridge Pioneers , an album with more of a rock influence than the band’s previous skate punk / ska punk sound. The recording took six weeks, following which they…
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They were signed to Burning Heart Records , an independent record label notable for being the home of many influential Swedish punk rock and hardcore punk bands in the 90s and 2000s.
A documentary was also shot the same year, Så nära får ingen gå – ett år med Kent (“No One Can Get This Close – a year with Kent”), produced by Per Sinding-Larsen and Mathias Engstrand.