Artist
The Hives
The Hives is a garage rock artist from Fagersta, Sweden formed in 1993. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Garage Rock · Fagersta, Sweden · Best garage rock albums
- 26
- Releases
- 1997–2025
- Active years
- 1993
- Formed
Artist
The Hives is a garage rock artist from Fagersta, Sweden formed in 1993. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Garage Rock · Fagersta, Sweden · Best garage rock albums
Most popular
The Black and White Album
2007
The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
Single · 2025
a.k.a. I‐D‐I‐O‐T
EP · 1998
Good Samaritan
Single · 2019
I'm Alive
Single · 2019
Blood Red Moon
Single · 2015
Legalize Living
Single · 2025
Paint A Picture
Single · 2025
Enough Is Enough
Single · 2025
Rigor Mortis Radio
Single · 2023
Bogus Operandi
Single · 2023
Countdown To Shutdown
Single · 2023
Trapdoor Solution/The Bomb
Single · 2023
Tarred And Feathered
EP · 2010
We Rule The World (T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S) (e-single multitrack)
EP · 2007
Tick Tick Boom (e-single)
Single · 2007
Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones
Single · 2004
Main Offender
Single · 2001
Hate To Say I Told You So
Single · 2001
Die, All Right!
Single · 2001
The Hives were formed in Fagersta — a steel mill town of 12,000 people — in 1993, by brothers Pelle and Niklas Almqvist along with three friends who all adopted stage names: Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson, Vigilante Carlstroem, Dr. Matt Destruction and Chris Dangerous. The name “Hives” was chosen because the drummer had found the word for the skin condition in a dictionary, and the band thought it fit: they irritate people, they get under your skin. Debut album Barely Legal arrived in 1997, but it was Veni Vidi Vicious in 2000 and the single “Hate to Say I Told You So” that set the world on fire. In the middle of the garage rock wave alongside The White Stripes and The Strokes, The Hives became one of the biggest names in the movement. Seven studio albums have followed, most recently The Hives Forever Forever The Hives in 2025, recorded in Benny Andersson’s studio with Mike D of the Beastie Boys as co-producer. Every song is officially credited to the mysterious Randy Fitzsimmons — a figure no one has ever seen, but whom the band insists is entirely real. The music is garage rock distilled to its purest form: raw, fast, loud and insanely catchy. The Hives have never tried…
