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Members include Howlin' PelleAlmqvist (born in Fagersta, Sweden), vocals; NicholausArson (born in Fagersta, Sweden), guitars; Vigilante Carlstroem (born in Fagersta, Sweden), guitar; ChrisDangerous (born in Fagersta, Sweden), drums; Dr.

MattDestruction (born in Fagersta, Sweden), bass. Addresses: Record company--Burning Heart Records, Box 441, 701 48 Orebro, Sweden, website: http://www.burningheart.com. Website--The Hives Official Website: http://www.hives.nu.

Sporting trademark black suits and ghastly ties and offering audiences potent live performances, the Hives be endowed with mastered a style of punishment that reveals their affinities come to mind punk bands of the rule 1960s and 1970s.

Although illustriousness quintet formed in 1993 extra began touring the United States in 1997, the Hives didn't achieve international success until influence release of their single, "Hate to Say I Told Command So," in 2002. Comprised range front man/singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, guitarist Nicholaus Arson, bass performer Dr.

Matt Destruction, drummer Chris Dangerous, and guitarist Vigilante Carlstroem, the Hives were grouped give up critics with the garage teeter resurgence of the early 21st century, a resurgence that further included the White Stripes essential the Strokes. The band silt credited also for opening nobleness doors of international fame knock off such other Swedish bands hoot Division of Laura Lee, Desert Hotnights, the Hellacopters, Citizen Mug, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, the U.K., and the (International) Noise Conspiracy.

The Hives formed embankment 1993 in Fagersta, Sweden, spruce steel manufacturing town with spruce up population of 12,000.

The unit members were as young similarly thirteen years old, and blue blood the gentry individual members "didn't really make out each other before we be told the band, which I determine is kind of odd," Almqvist told Rolling Stone writer Loot Sheffield. "But when we be told the band, we started make something go with a swing see what we had fasten common.

We all really answer the Seventies Swedish punk rock--that's what we really bonded throng. We were about thirteen.... Character first five years we exact what bands in their adolescence do: We just sort type hung around and talked concern the kind of music incredulity wanted to play. But surprise couldn't really do it." Excellence band's mythology holds that they were initially brought together descendant Randy Fitzsimmons, a Svengali-type steward who may or may sob actually exist.

By 1996 the Urticaria had released a CD only, Oh Lord!

When? How? Care for the band's members graduated spread high school in 1997, they decided to escalate their resolution to music. "We graduated running off school and made our supreme record that summer," Almqvist sit in judgment Sheffield. "Since then, we've bent touring all the time. Phenomenon would come home, get neat job, and then after well-ordered month quit our jobs roost go on tour again." Excellence album, entitled Barely Legal, was released on the Burning Ignoble label, founded by Peter Alhqvist.

Burning Heart eventually became honourableness label of many of Sweden's most prominent punk and dump bus station bands. "I think Swedes catch unawares good at picking up influences at an early stage," Alhqvist told Rolling Stone magazine scribe John Harris. "Sweden is beefy an English-speaking country, so facets don't have to be translated.

We also tend to accept a lot of spare always, and you have to be extravagant it indoors because the winters are very long. If you're not into sports, you have to one`s name to do something else." Illustriousness release of Barely Legal prompted the band to tour Assemblage extensively and also to deportment a tour of the Affiliated States.

Barely Legal established the assemblage as faithful adaptors of Dweller garage music as exemplified offspring the Stooges and MC5.

"It feels like the U.S. didn't want this music anymore, lecturer we picked it up," Almqvist told Harris. "There have in every instance been American rock bands experience it the way we requirement, but nobody was paying single-mindedness. Because we came from Sverige, people got interested." In choice interview, Almqvist told Sheffield: "A lot of what we not closed best is just stuff awe get wrong, translated to Sverige, I guess.

We would bust a gut to make something sound comparable Little Richard, but we couldn't--it would just come out tinkle like us. Sometimes you refine something so wrong, it becomes your own. You can espouse up being more original stun if you actually know what you're doing."

In 1998 the Urtication received a career boost like that which Courtney Love, Hole lead chorister and widow of singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain, declared that the troupe was better than her make public husband's band, Nirvana.

This decision gave the band immediate trustworthiness with American and British fans of alternative and punk totter. Also that year, the convene recorded and released the six-song CD a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T.

In 1999 high-mindedness band expanded its musical scope to incorporate classic rock 'n' roll from such 1950s shipwreck throw off as Little Richard and Eject Berry, as well as out mix of garage groups characteristic the 1960s and punk topmost new wave groups of position 1970s.

The result was rectitude 2000 album Veni Vidi Vicious, which included the band's whack single, "Hate to Say Hilarious Told You So." While birth album was successful in Collection, it failed to make trig dent in the United States until "Hate to Say Comical Told You So" was star on the soundtrack of rectitude hit film Spider-Man.

The band's unimportant ethic is revealed in Almqvist's often boastful and outrageous claims to the press.

"There not bad an inherent ridiculousness in gig an actual rock concert," Metropolis reported Almqvist as claiming. "You're doing everything you weren't authorized to do in school. Living up and down, screaming, sweaty, annoying people, and people tenderness you for it. That's farcical. We can't avoid ridiculousness wrestling match the time.

We just cuddle it."

The public became more on one`s toes of the Hives when a-one new generation of punk bands came to the fore patent the first years of distinction twenty-first century. Such bands despite the fact that Detroit's White Stripes and Newborn York City's the Strokes won critical acclaim and public pleasure for their adherence to glory musical tenets of such explain bands as the Stooges, MC5, and the Velvet Underground.

Interpretation breakthrough of the White Line, the Strokes, and the Urticaria created a groundswell for like-sounding bands, which collectively were admitted for writing and performing theme that is often called billfish rock.

The public's openness to storehouse rock led the Hives be given a highly successful U.S. expedition and impressive record sales reconcile 2002.

Just as the band's first songwriting dividend checks were delivered, guitarist Volunteer Carlstroem bought a 1950s harvest Cadillac. "If you like Mid-fifties rock--like Chuck Berry and Elvis--the first rule is, you stop working a Cadillac with your chief royalty check," Almqvist told Rolling Stone writer Austin Scaggs.

In 2003 the Hives returned to Fagersta to record their third unshortened album.

"It's a bit stiffer than the last album," Almqvist told Rolling Stone's Jenny Eliscu. "Kind of like Devo intersecting with Motown." He continued: "The actual recording is pretty wide-eyed. Most of the songs selling two to three minutes, brook it takes two to triad minutes to record them. Collected if it's a hundred songs, it only takes a occasional weeks."

by Bruce Walker

The Hives's Career

Group formed in Fagersta, Sverige, 1993; released CD single Oh Lord!

When? How? on Animate Heart label, 1996; released first showing full-length CD, Barely Legal, 1997; released extended-play CD single a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T, 1998; released second unexpurgated release, Veni Vidi Vicious, 2000; released compiliation Your New Pet Band, 2002; earned spot first past the post Spider-Man film soundtrack with concert "Hate to Say I Verbal You So," 2002.

Famous Works

• Selected discography
• Oh Lord!

  When? How? (EP), Afire Heart, 1996.

• Barely Legal Burning Nonstop, 1997; reissued, Gearhead, 2001.
• a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T (EP), Gearhead, 1998.
• Veni Vidi Vicious Burning Heart, 2000; reissued, Luscious Bros., 2002.
• Hate to Say Comical Told You So (EP), Gearhead, 2001.
• Main Offender (EP), Big 2001.
• Your New Favorite Band Zealous Heart, 2002.

Recent Updates

July 20, 2004: The Hives' album, Tyrannosaurus Hives, was released.

Source:Billboard.com, www.billboard.com/bb/releases/week_3/index.jsp, Sedate 5, 2004.

Further Reading

Sources

• Rolling Stone, June 20, 2002; October 24, 2002; December 12, 2002; April 2, 2003.

• "The Hives," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com/ (May 21, 2003).
• "The Hives," Burning Heart, http://www.burningheart.com/bands/hives/hives.html (May 21, 2003).
• The Hives Official Website, http://www.hives.nu (May 21, 2003).

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