The two new videos featuring Jeff Gutt mark the band's first live shows since Weiland's death and their debut concert with Gutt. The band's search for a third lead singer began in 2016 with an online audition process, with the remaining members ultimately choosing Jeff Gutt, an 'X Factor' season 3 runner-up and former member of nu metal act Dry Cell. Sadly, both vocalists' departures from the band were soon followed by tragedy: Weiland died from an overdose in 2015, a month after Bennington left Stone Temple Pilots, while Bennington committed suicide earlier this year.

Founding member Scott Weiland fronted the band from 1989 through to 2013, when he was fired a few months later, Chester Bennington took over as lead vocalist, remaining on board until 2015 when he left to focus on Linkin Park. Gutt is the third lead singer to perform with the group. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.Two new videos reveal Stone Temple Pilots' return to the stage with new lead singer Jeff Gutt. РІР‚СљIn the End,РІР‚Сњ with his soaring chorus, reached No. Bennington shifted easily between belting and growling. Though the band was popular among the headbangers of Ozzfest and the annual РІР‚СљFamily ValuesРІР‚Сњ tour, it never shied from its pop sensibilities, as Mr. BenningtonРІР‚в„ўs worldview could be bleak and his lyrics self-lacerating, but his honesty and the steeliness of his vocals on tender subjects bred fierce loyalty in the bandРІР‚в„ўs listeners. Despite its rougher edges, the albumРІР‚в„ўs raw emotion and radio-ready hooks found a mass audience - and a fair amount of critical derision - as part of the growing nu-metal boom led by acts like Korn and Limp Bizkit. 24, 2000, at the peak of the teen-pop mania fueled by Britney Spears and РІР‚в„ўN Sync. The 2018 tour is in support of the bandРІР‚в„ўs upcoming new album. 'Dear Scott,' his former Stone Temple bandmates wrote in a poignant farewell on Facebook, 'Let us start by saying thank you for sharing your life with us. Bennington, who committed suicide this year and also sang in Linkin Park, left Stone Temple Pilots in 2015. But he suffered from substance abuse issues and left the band. Their first album 'Core' came out in 1992. РІР‚СљHybrid TheoryРІР‚Сњ was released by Warner Bros. Weiland formed Stone Temple Pilots with friends more than two decades ago. Bennington, who had already recorded himself singing over the bandРІР‚в„ўs early work. I wanted to find someone who could do them justice.РІР‚СњР”Р„fter he auditioned an array of vocalists, he gave the job to Mr. Shinoda told Kerrang! РІР‚СљI had these great melodies in my head, and I couldnРІР‚в„ўt get them across. РІР‚СљI never pretended I could carry the vocals on my own,РІР‚Сњ Mr. Shinoda, a California rapper and songwriter interested in mixing hip-hop and rock sounds. Bennington was married and working in an unfulfilling job when a music industry acquaintance sent him a demo by the band Xero, featuring Mr. As a teenager, he started his first band, Grey Daze, and gained something of a local following in the wake of the grunge explosion.Р”Р„t 23, Mr. As a onetime X Factor USA contestant, heРІР‚в„ўd had plenty of experience covering other artistsРІР‚в„ў songs, and as the former frontman for several estblished rock bands, he knew how. industry showcase in November 2016, he wasnРІР‚в„ўt that nervous.

Bennington found solace in writing angst-filled poetry, in drawing and eventually in music he cited Stone Temple Pilots and Depeche Mode as two of his earliest influences. When Jeff Gutt gave his first performance as the new lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots, at a secret L.A. I didnРІР‚в„ўt want people to think I was gay or that I was lying. РІР‚СљLike most people, I was too afraid to say anything. Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland knew he was hooked the first time he tried heroin, and by the time the band was recording their second album, Purple, he was becoming a junkie but doing everything he could to hide his addiction.Many of the songs on the album express this lonely, helpless feeling, including this one. РІР‚СљIt destroyed my self-confidence,РІР‚Сњ he said of the abuse in an interview with Kerrang! magazine in 2008.

Bennington was РІР‚Сљabout 7 or 8РІР‚Сњ and continuing until he was 13. Bennington described his childhood as unhappy, citing his parentsРІР‚в„ў divorce when he was 11 and frequent molestation by an older friend, beginning when Mr. His mother was a nurse and his father a local police detective prone to pulling double shifts. Chester Charles Bennington was born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, the youngest of four children.

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