Now this is one thing to howl about! Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist and his cohorts in The Hives are on their manner again after an 11-year hole between albums. Although as soon as on the forefront of the early 2000s storage rock wave, The Hives go a little bit darker and extra aggressive on their new single, serving up some doomy enjoyable with the music “Bogus Operandi,” which is the primary tease of their forthcoming album, The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons.
Although recognized for having a extra punk vibe to their sound, The Hives command your consideration with Rage In opposition to the Machine-esque solitary heavy observe consideration grabbers to start out the music. It paints a doomy, darkish vibe, particularly when paired with the winter forest set music video for “Bogus Operandi.”
The clip itself is a horror story, discovering the band’s members on the receiving finish of a possessed shovel summoned to trace them down within the desolate forest night time and command them to do its rock and roll bidding. You possibly can take a look at the Aube Perrie-directed video under.
The Hives, “Bogus Operandi”
It must be famous that the horror theme within the video is just not by chance. Per a press launch on the brand new album, which has been titled The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons, “Because the album’s macabre title hints, the band’s prolonged absence from the studio has been no hiatus however slightly a horror story,” suggesting there could also be darker themes at work right here.
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That stated, the bravado The Hives have at all times displayed has not gone away. In reality, singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist says, “There’s no maturity or something like that bullshit, as a result of who the fuck desires mature rock ’n’ roll? That’s at all times the place individuals go flawed, I really feel. ‘It’s like rock ’n’ roll however grownup,’ no one desires that! That’s actually taking the nice shit out of it. Rock ’n’ roll can’t develop up, it’s a perpetual teenager and this album feels precisely like that, which it’s all all the way down to our pleasure — and you may’t pretend that shit.”
The Hives’ The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons is due Aug. 11, with pre-orders being taken right here. Try the album art work and observe itemizing under and search for the band returning to touring in Europe this spring. Catch them stay right here.
The Hives, The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons Album Art work + Observe Itemizing
the hives, the dying of randy fitzsimmons album artwork
1. Bogus Operandi
2. Trapdoor Answer
3. Countdown To Shutdown
4. Rigor Mortis Radio
5. Stick Up
6. Smoke & Mirrors
7. Crash Into the Weekend
8. Two Sorts of Bother
9. The Method the Story Goes
10. The Bomb
11. What Did I Ever Do To You?
12. Step Out of the Method
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