The Righteous & The Butterfly by Mushroomhead

The Righteous & the Butterfly is the seventh studio album by metal band Mushroomhead. It was released on May 13, 2014. It is the band's first studio album since 2003's XIII to feature Jason "J Mann" Popson on vocals, and the last to feature Jeffrey Hatrix and Waylon Reavis on vocals and Tom Schmitz on keyboards. It is also their first album without Jack Kilcoyne on bass since the self-titled album, and Dave Felton on guitar since M3, as well as the first album to feature Ryan Farrell on bass and Robbie Godsey on percussion, the only to feature Tommy Church on guitar. Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix said about the members' departure: "We also parted ways with a couple of members who didn't share in the founding members’ vision of what Mushroomhead was always meant to be. Pig and Gravy both saw our future in a far different way".The album title is a dedication to original guitarist John "JJ Righteous" Sekula and drummer Steve "Skinny" Felton's former wife Vanessa Solowiow, both of whom had died in 2010 and 2013 respectively.