Stone Temple Pilots Working on New Music With New Singer

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After a year and a half long search, Stone Temple Pilots have finally found a new singer to fill the shoes of late iconic front man Scott Weiland. Not only that, but the band is now working on new music with the new vocalist as well.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, bassist Robert DeLeo goes into minor detail about the new singer as well as the music, saying:

“We’ve been working with someone – I don’t want to name names yet – and we’re making music. I don’t know if he’s well-known or unknown; I don’t look at him as ‘well-known.’ But we’re writing music and we’re hopefully looking at finishing a record and putting it out soon.”

Stone Temple Pilots had been on the search for a new singer since they parted ways with Weiland in 2011 (who died in 2015 of a drug overdose) and the attempted push forward with late Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington in 2013 coming to an end for Bennington to focus on his main band.

That said, I know I'm looking forward to finding out who the new singer is and what the new stuff will sound like as well as how he will interpret the old material as well. There is no replacing someone like Scott Weiland, but if AC/DC can come back and be bigger and better than ever after a similar incident, then I don't see why STP can't do the same.