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10 years after their last album, The Hives announce a new album that they will come to present to us in October 2023.
The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, to be released in August 2023, is The Hives' sixth studio album, a work that fans of the Swedish band have been waiting for for more than a decade. And the album's first thunderous release "Bogus Operandi" demonstrates that the wait has been worth it.
As the macabre album title hints, the band's prolonged absence from the studio hasn't been a hiatus, but rather a horror story. The Hives now admit they have not seen or spoken to their founder, mentor and songwriter, the perpetual Randy Fitzsimmons, since the release of Lex Hives in 2012. Following the recent discovery of a hidden obituary and cryptic poem in the local newspaper of the In the northern Vastmanland town of their origin, the gang members were led to Fitzsimmons' tombstone. Digging through the newly buried dirt, the gang found not a body, but rather several tapes, suits and a piece of paper with the words "The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons" typed on it.
Whether this is a hoax or a ploy by Fitzsimmons remains to be seen. The tapes discovered included the demos that would become the twelve new songs on The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons.
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