Lex Hives

Occupation

  • Howlin ' Pelle Almqvist: Voice
  • Nicholaus Arson: guitar, vocals
  • Vigilante Carlstroem: guitar, vocals
  • Dr. Matt Destruction: Bass
  • Chris Dangerous: Drums

Studios

  • Hive Manor, Fagersta
  • Riksmixningsverket Studios, Stockholm
  • Atlantis, Stockholm
  • Decibel, Stockholm
  • Megaton, Stockholm
  • Svenska Grammofon Studion, Göteborg
  • Hansa recording studios, Berlin
  • Pink Duck Studios, Burbank

Lex Hives is the sixth studio album by the Swedish alternative rock band The Hives. It appeared in Germany June 1, 2012 at the band's own label No Fun AB.

Creation and publication

For the first time in the history of the band Lex Hives was itself produced and marketed itself through its own tape label. The recordings took place in various studios in Sweden, Germany and the USA. As with the album Veni Vidi Vicious, the band chose a partially Latin name, the title roughly translates to " The Hives are the law " means. The album itself was released in Germany and in Sweden on 1 June 2012.

Title list

Chart positions

In Sweden, the album reached seventh place finishing in the top ten. In Switzerland, the album reached number 20 in Germany and number 25 in Austria and Australia on 38th More rankings in the charts were in France ( 47th ) and two parts of Belgium (ranked 126 in Flanders, place 135 in Wallonia ) is reached.

Reception

Critically, the album was perceived differently, most reviews were positive, however. Metascore calculated an average of 69 % based on 28 reviews, and thus assigns the predicate "generally favorable" (Eng. " generally positive "). This is the Lex Hives far the worst bewertetste album of the band.

Marcel Anders from 1 Live praised the album, and is of the opinion that they had managed a good step back and Lex Hives was the best ever album of the band. The songs called Anders as " energetic, fresh, direct, energetic and anthemic. "

Radio Fritz assigns rating than four out of five stars and said that the album while still am fun, the band but the aggression 've lost, they have excellent songs like Walk Idiot Walk.

Mark Read of Plattentests.de awards the album seven out of ten and wrote that Lex Hives remember the album Veni Vidi Vicious, but you still can still hear experiments. Only the single Go Right Ahead comes to his opinion after convincing.

The Rolling Stone is of the opinion that although the album had energy, but these lose some points. As a critic Chuck Eddy rating assigns three stars out of five.

Sven Kabelitz of Laut.de rated the album rather negative and assigns only two out of five stars. In his opinion, the songs remind Although the old times, but can not get into this.

Musician list

  • Howlin ' Pelle Almqvist: Voice
  • Nicholaus Arson: guitar, vocals
  • Vigilante Carlstroem: guitar, vocals
  • Dr. Matt Destruction: Bass
  • Chris Dangerous: Drums
  • Gustav Bendt: saxophone
  • Per Johansson: saxophone
  • Jonas Kullhammar: saxophone
Record label Genre Pop-Rock Singing Niklas Almqvist Bass guitar Hansa Tonstudio Burbank, California
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