Tig’s Metal Box: New Frontman Announced for Stone Temple Pilots

The Metal Box is a weekly web series posted each Friday where we discuss all things hard rock and heavy metal: news, videos, interviews, live concerts and more.

This week, we’re talking about Stone Temple Pilots finally announcing a new frontman. Watch the video above for all the details. Stone Temple Pilots which formed in 1985 out of San Diego, California with Scott Weiland on vocals along with brothers Robert DeLeo (bass) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Krets on drums.The band found immediate success with the 1992 release Core, and went on to become one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1990’s. Four more studio albums followed: Purple (1994), Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Shop (1996), No. 4 (1999), and Shangri-La Dee Da (2001). The band broke up in 2002 and Scott Weiland had supergroup Velvet Revolver from 2003-2008. STP eventually reunited for a reunion tour in 2008 and released a new self-titled album in 2010. After leaving Stone Temple Pilots again, the band worked with singer Chester Bennington of Lincoln Park for a short time and released an EP entitled High Rise in 2013.

Scott Weiland died of a drug overdose on his tour bus in Minnesota in Dec. 2015 while on tour with his band The Wildabouts. He was 48.