The Hives, Sweden’s artisans of riffology, are clearly making up for lost time. The band released their first five albums Barely Legal (1997), Veni Vidi Vicious (2000), Tyrannosaurus Hives (2004), The Black and White Album (2007), and Lex Hives (2012) across a decade and a half. Nearly as much time—eleven years—lapsed between Lex Hives and the sudden arrival of new Hives releases, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (2023) and the band’s latest, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, released two month...