Members of a ‘90s rock band are planning to release an album they recorded more than a decade ago as soon as next year.
Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo and guitarist Dean DeLeo made an album in 2013 after splitting with singer Scott Weiland, Ultimate Classic Rock reported.
The guitarist told the outlet that he and his bandmate have been “sitting on” the record, which they made with singer Pete Shoulder.
“Pete came over and we actually jumped in and made a record,” Dean DeLeo told UCR. “Robert, Brian Tichy, Pete and myself went and made a record, which we’re sitting on.”
However, the project was put on hold after the group convinced late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington to join Stone Temple Pilots.
Together, they released a five-song EP, called “High Rise,” with drummer Eric Kretz in October 2013. They also briefly toured with Bennington.
“Chester, Robert, Eric, and I jumped [back] into the world of STP and started recording,” DeLeo told UCR. “We did the ‘High Rise’ EP, and that record [with Shoulder] was sadly put on a little bit of a hiatus.”
DeLeo now says the unreleased album from early 2013 may come out as early as next year. But it won’t be under the Stone Temple Pilots name. That’s because Kretz and current STP vocalist Jeff Gutt were not part of the recording.
“This is a totally different thing. STP is Eric, Robert, Jeff and myself,” the guitarist said.
“I would hope they wouldn’t have another guitar player come in for an STP record. We wouldn’t do that to any members,” DeLeo continued. “STP is what it is, and these things that Robert and I have been doing lately [are] just another avenue for us to just kind of go, ‘Let your freak flag fly!’”
DeLeo didn’t reveal the band’s new name, but this isn’t his first time doing a side project. Stone Temple Pilots released an album as Talk Show in 1997 because the STP lineup worked with singer Dave Coutts instead of Weiland.
In 2006, the DeLeo brothers worked with Filter frontman Richard Patrick and drummer Ray Luzier (now a member of KoRn) as Army of Anyone, releasing one self-titled album.
An official release date for the 2013 recording has not been announced, but Dean and Robert DeLeo have now formed a new band with Shoulder called One More Satellite. Their debut album will be released July 18 and feature lead single “Paper Over the Cracks,” a very STP-sounding rock song.
Kretz and Robert DeLeo, meanwhile, are gearing up to tour with The Joe Perry Project this summer. The group, featuring Aerosmith’s Joe Perry and Brad Whitford with The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson on lead vocals, will perform at the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston on Aug. 19.
Stone Temple Pilots is an alternative rock band known for ‘90s hits like “Interstate Love Song,” “Vasoline,” and the Grammy-winning “Plush.” Weiland, who died in 2015, was the lead vocalist from 1989 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2013. Gutt leads the current lineup with Kretz and the DeLeo brothers.
