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Hello dear, dear person,
Do you think that the "Rock Band Of The Year" should be a band that actually plays
rock music?
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Do you miss the sound of cheap guitar amps being captured by expensive
microphones?
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Do you want goose bumps from hearing five single-minded men with a telepathic
connection slamming their instruments against each other and the floor?
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Have you been to a concert by the latest saviours of music and been thoroughly
underwhelmed by the performance and showmanship?
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Are you interested in music built out of blood, guts and will-power, and not ones and
zeros?
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Does this make you think of The Hives?
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Are you wondering what they have been
up to the last couple of years?
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By all means, read on…
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THE HIVES
LEX HIVES
Do you hear a swooping sound? Can you feel warm gusts of wind against your face? It is the phoenix rising from
the ashes, and while one arm flaps vigorously, beneath the other he is holdinga golden disc. He is coming closer…
The disc says… LEX HIVES!
Yes, little reader, the world's wisest musical council and international rock sensation, The Hives, are back! On
June 5th, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson, Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, and VigilanteCarlstroem
will return with their fifth stunner – the 12-track contemplation of all law that is Hives – “Lex Hives”. The term "Lex
Hives" is a phrase derived from the ancient Roman practice of enacting a system or body of laws and accepting
them as a standard. Thus, the 12 songs on “Lex Hives” make up the holy laws after which all life from now on must
be lived.
Chiselled into the melted wax cake 33 1/3 long-player, “Lex Hives” will be released on The Hives' own label Disques
Hives. Self-produced, self-played, self-released, and self-promoted, these 12 songs are not built to fit just anyone.
These are not songs that sound equally good played on an acoustic guitar by the campfire. This is not music. This
is compressed carbon hidden in the earth's crust for millions of years and unearthed, to be placed in your eardrums.
– Lex Hives took a year and a half of thinking and three months of recording.
– Lex Hives is slightly over 30 minutes long. This is not short. If recorded by some other band it would have been
45 minutes.
– Lex Hives has exactly the contractually specified 12 songs.
– Lex Hives has a booklet for the first time depicting the workstation at Hive Manor.
– Lex Hives was mixed by Grammy Award winner Andrew Scheps, Dave Sardy and Joe Zook, because only the
best will do and California is nicer than Sweden in February.
Born almost two decades ago in 1993 in Fagersta, Sweden, The Hives have long been a rock 'n’ roll force to be
reckoned with. Their debut, 1997’s “Barely Legal”, shot thru the punk community like a runaway locomotive, with
faster-than-fast blistering punk that had the punks cheering and raising bottles and cans, but left most of the
mainstream going, "Oh… well… uhm what?" With 2000’s more studio-wise
“Veni Vidi Vicious”, and the UK smash “Your New Favourite Band”
(a compilation of songs from “Barely Legal”, “VVV” and the
“a.k.a I-D-I-O-T” EP), however, The Hives wrote the book
on the decade’s garage-rock success together with the
likes of Detroit's The White Stripes to name but one
of many.