"He has that baritone, and he's also able to get into that tenor world.
Guitarist Dean DeLeo, who is the bassist's brother, told Rolling Stone that Gutt was well-equipped to sing the parts of Weiland and also to take the band forward musically. The band with heavy guitar and dark introspection were a leading force in the grunge scene of the 1990s, led by the voice of Scott Weiland, who died of an overdose in 2015 on his tour bus. I mean, you have dreams about things like this," he told the magazine. Grunge rockers Stone Temple Pilots are back with a new frontman, chosen in an audition of 15,000 applicants after their previous two singers died. "So walking in on that first day, it was crazy. Gutt told Rolling Stone that he had considered Weiland a model as a singer since first hearing the Stone Temple Pilots' debut album "Core" in 1992, when the new frontman was a teenager. Stone Temple Pilots had put out a call for a new singer and received around 15,000 submissions but Gutt was invited to audition after bassist Robert DeLeo was introduced to him while playing in Michigan. The fast-paced guitar track features the voice of Jeff Gutt, the 41-year-old singer from the defunct California nu-metal band Dry Cell who had returned to his native Michigan. Stone Temple Pilots marked their rebirth on Wednesday with the release of the song "Meadow" and said to expect an album in 2018. We purposely wanted to feel an audition in a live setting so we decided to do a live recordin. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS End Open Auditions For New Singer : : :,. Bennington left Stone Temple Pilots amicably and earlier this year killed himself. This is a 12-song medley of most of Stone Temple Pilots hits. The troubled Weiland had already been replaced before his death by Chester Bennington, the frontman of Linkin Park.
NEW YORK - Grunge rockers Stone Temple Pilots are back with a new frontman, chosen in an audition of 15,000 applicants after their previous two singers died. Neilson Barnard, Getty Images for SiriusXM/AFP (From left) Robert DeLeo, Jeff Gutt, and Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots perform onstage during SiriusXM Presents Stone Temple Pilots Live from the Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Check out Marias submission for the open Stone Temple Pilots vocalist auditions before the band hears it.