 Stone Temple Pilots ( also known as The Red Album ) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots . The album was released worldwide from May 21 through May 27 , 2010 , and is the band 's first album since 2001 's Shangri @-@ La Dee Da . The album is the result of the band 's reunion , which occurred in April 2008 with their North American tour . After Stone Temple Pilots had begun playing together , the band decided to record again , but a lawsuit filed by Atlantic Records on June 12 , 2008 , made the sixth album an uncertainty . Atlantic eventually withdrew the lawsuit , and the band 's attorney called the legal situation a " misunderstanding " . This is the last album to feature vocalist Scott Weiland before he was fired from the band in 2013 and died in 2015 . 
