Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots (2018)
Released March 16th, 2018
Stone Temple Pilots is the second STP album to be titled Stone Temple Pilots. Clearly the band is thinking of it as somewhat of a restart. A lot has happened over the years since the first self-titled release. Original frontman Scott Weiland was fired, rehired, and then died of an accidental overdose. Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington filled in for a few years leaving in 2015 and recently passed himself. At the end of 2017, the band revealed they’d hired Jeff Gutt (who appeared on the third season of The X Factor) as their new lead singer. This is Gutt’s debut and does a passable Weiland impersonation. The music remains strong STP and the vocals sound enough Weiland-like to pass, but the lyrics just don’t have the same punch.
3 of 5 stars
