The Hives Plot World Tour to Accompany New Album

Incendiary Swedish rockers The Hives are readying themselves for a giant 12 months, with a brand new album introduced alongside a worldwide run of tour dates.

The veteran quintet – who celebrated their thirtieth anniversary in 2023 – shared the information of their seventh album in a press launch on Tuesday (April 1), with the announcement taking the type of an open letter formally addressed to “whom it could concern,” however clarified to imply “everybody.”

“This message is to tell you that Worldwide Rock Sensation The Hives, the most effective dwell band on the planet and nonetheless your new favorite band, lauded on all continents for his or her masterful ability and reckless abandon within the rock music area, have as soon as once more, earlier than you anticipated, created a brand new physique of labor the likes of which have by no means been heard or certainly in all probability will once more,” the message started.

“A brand new document so filled with vitality, pleasure, anger and life that you may be questioning actuality as you’ve gotten recognized it,” it continued. “They lastly did it. Each single tune a single, each single single successful, each hit a direct hit within the face of the person.”

The document in query is titled The Hives Ceaselessly Ceaselessly The Hives and will probably be launched by way of Play It Once more Sam on Aug. 29. In response to the press launch, the 13-track album was “crafted with dedication, abandon and ability in Sweden in cohorts with the esteemed producers Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Mike D of Beastie Boys.”

The group have additionally unveiled “Sufficient Is Sufficient” because the album’s lead single, with a video directed by filmmaker Eik Kockum capturing the group in Bucharest, Romania.

“Who of their proper thoughts would begin a tune like this? Nobody however The Hives,” the group defined. “They’re right here once more earlier than you anticipated they usually have had sufficient of everybody at this level. Therefore the title. Dig? Dig.”

The Hives will have a good time the discharge of their forthcoming album with a world tour which launches in Australia in July, earlier than visiting North America, Europe, and the U.Okay. all through the remainder of the 12 months.

The Hives Ceaselessly Ceaselessly The Hives arrives because the band’s seventh album, and follows on from the discharge of 2023’s The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons – ending an eleven-year hole between releases for the band. 

The group initially fashioned in 1993, although largely averted widespread recognition till the discharge of the 2001 compilation Your New Favorite Band. The compilation resulted within the re-release of their single “Hate to Say I Instructed You So,” which peaked at No. 86 on the Scorching 100, and noticed their following album – 2004’s Tyrannosaurus Hives – attain a profession excessive of No. 33 on the Billboard 200.

The Hives – World Tour 2025

July 17  – Metropolis Freo, Perth, AU
July 19  – Discussion board, Melbourne, AU
July 23  – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, AU
July 24  – Fortitude Music Corridor, Brisbane, AU
Sept. 8  – Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampitheater, Austin, TX
Sept. 9  – Home of Blues, Houston, TX
Sept. 10  – Home of Blues, Dallas, TX
Sept. 12  – Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
Sept. 13  – The Union Occasion Heart, Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
Sept. 15  – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
Sept. 16  – The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
Sept. 17  – Revolution Corridor, Portland, OR
Sept. 19  – Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA
Sept. 20  – The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Sept. 22  – The Sound, Del Mar, CA
Sept. 25  – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 17  – Sentrume Scene, Oslo, NO
Oct. 18  – KB Corridor, Copenhagen, DK
Oct. 21  – Colombia Halle, Berlin, DE
Oct. 24  – Zenith, Munich, DE
Oct. 25  – Haus Auensee, Leipzig, DE
Oct. 26  – Gasometer, Wien, AT
Oct. 28  – Xtra, Zurich, CH
Oct. 29  – Alcatraz, Milan, IT
Nov. 1  – Sant Jordi Membership, Barcelona, ES
Nov. 2  – Wizink, Madrid, ES
Nov. 4  – Sagres Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, PT
Nov. 19  – Forest Nationwide, Brussels, BE
Nov. 20  – Le Zenith, Paris, FR
Nov. 22  – AFAS, Amsterdam, NL
Nov. 24  – Utilitia Area, Cardiff, UK
Nov. 26  – Ovo Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Nov. 28  – Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
Nov. 29  – Alexandra Palace, London, UK
Dec. 1  – Palladium, Cologne, DE
Dec. 2  – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, DE
Dec. 3  – Sporthalle, Hamburg, DE
Dec. 6  – Avicii Area, Stockholm, SE