Stone Temple Pilots Drop ‘with Chester Bennington’ from Name
The current incarnation of Stone Temple Pilots no longer have to add ‘with Chester Bennington’ to the 
end of its name. Now, just like the Scott Weiland era, the band will just go by Stone Temple Pilots. Got it? Good.
Blabbermouth via The Pulse of Radio, reports that the band has resolved legal issues with Weiland regarding the name and can move forward as if it were 1994 all over again.
During an interview with AltWire, Bennington (who is also the current frontman for Linkin Park) confirmed the news by stating: “It’ll be fun to go out as just Stone Temple Pilots. That’s exciting, because it really bothered me to see ‘Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington.’ So I’m glad that’s gone and glad that that’s over.”
In the same conversation, Bennington also shed a bit of light on the music that he and the rest of Stone Temple Pilots are currently working on.
“I think it’s a lot different,” offered Bennington. “I really don’t like talking about music that people aren’t hearing because it’s hard to describe what the music sounds like, but it’s super energetic. The riffs are really cool and the playing has been really insane. So, I think there’s going to be a lot of our STP fans out there that are super happy. Every guitar player in the world is going to want to learn how to play these riffs, whether it’s guitar or bass. Eric has done amazing too. Really it’s now coming down to making great melodies and coming up with some good lyrics.”
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