High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Different Kind of Truth is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 7, 2012, A Different Kind of Truth is Van Halen`s first full-length, studio album to feature original lead vocalist David Lee Roth since 1984, and also it is the band`s first LP release since 1998. It is also the first studio album not to include original bassist Michael Anthony. Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli, plays bass guitar on the album. Released on Interscope Records, which won an "eleventh hour" bidding war with Columbia Records to release this much-anticipated comeback album, A Different Kind of Truth is Van Halen`s first major release away from Warner Bros. Records. Produced by John Shanks (notable for producing Fleetwood Mac, among other artists) and Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth debuted at #2 on Billboard`s U.S. Album Charts.