Villains is the seventh studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age. Produced by Mark Ronson, it was released on August 25, 2017, through Matador Records. The album was announced on June 14, 2017, with a teaser trailer taking the form of a comedy skit featuring the band performing a polygraph test with Liam Lynch. The first single, "The Way You Used to Do", was released the following day along with the announcement of a world tour. Villains is the first Queens of the Stone Age album to not feature any special guest musicians, the second to not feature Mark Lanegan, and the first to feature drummer Jon Theodore as a full-time member of the band. Villains is the second installment in the band's first trilogy of albums released through Matador that began with ...Like Clockwork and concluded with In Times New Roman.... The album received widely positive reviews and performed well commercially, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart, earning the band their first UK number-one album, and number three on the US Billboard 200. It also topped Billboard's Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villain...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)