Stone Temple Pilots by Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots, the band's seventh studio album and the second to carry nothing but the group's own name, arrived on Rhino on March 16, 2018. It's sometimes called The Butterfly Album, and it's the first STP record fronted by Jeff Gutt, who came out of the band's online search for a new singer. Guitarist Dean DeLeo took the producer's chair himself.

It's a record made in the shadow of loss. Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington, the two men who held the mic before Gutt, had both died, and the liner notes remember them. What survives is the DeLeo brothers' hard-rock heft and their knack for a hook, with Eric Kretz pounding underneath and Gutt stepping into enormous shoes without flinching. "Meadow" went out first, in November 2017, with "Roll Me Under", "The Art of Letting Go" and "Never Enough" following it out the door ahead of the band's tour.

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