Swedish rockers The Hives have announced a UK and Ireland tour, which includes a show in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on 8th April 2024.

With the final show of their blistering run of stadium dates with Arctic Monkeys later this week, the band will also release their highly anticipated new album The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons on August 11th via FUGA.

Last month, the quintet released a video for album single 'Bogus Operandi', directed by Aube Perrie.

As the album’s macabre title hints, the band’s extended absence from the studio has been no hiatus but rather a horror story. The Hives now claim they have not seen nor spoken to their founder, mentor and songwriter, the perpetual limelight-shunning Randy Fitzsimmons (Niklas Almqvist), since the release of 2012’s Lex Hives.

"Following the recent discovery of a hidden away obituary and cryptic poem in the local paper of the Northern Vastmanland town where The Hives are from, the band members were led to Fitzsimmons’ tombstone," a description for the album reads. "Upon digging the freshly interred ground, the band found not a body but instead several tapes, suits, and a piece of paper bearing the words 'The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons' typed up as if a title. Whether a hoax or Fitzsimmons’ opening gambit, remains to be seen."

The uncovered tapes included the demos that would become the twelve new songs on The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons. In the 25 years since The Hives exploded around the world, they have sold out stadiums and shared stages with everyone from AC/DC to The Rolling Stones.

The rockers have sold millions of albums world-wide with multiple RIAA Gold-certifications. In the time since Lex Hives, the band has released 2019’s double A-side 'I'm Alive”/“Good Samaritan' as well as a live album via Third Man Records, and embarked on a series of global tours.

The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons marks a true renaissance for Chris Dangerous, Vigilante Carlstroem, Nicholaus Arson, Howlin' Pelle, and The Johan And Only.

Tickets from €46.55 on sale next Friday, June 30th at 10am.