Tig’s Metal Box: STP Part Ways With Singer Chester Bennington

The Metal Box is a weekly web series posted each Friday where we be discuss all things hard rock and heavy metal: news, videos, interviews, live concerts and more.

This week, we talk about Stone Temple Pilots announcing that they have officially parted ways with Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. The collaboration lasted nearly three years. Bennington replaced Scott Weiland as STP frontman after Weiland's firing in 2013.

Stone Temple Pilots formed in 1985 out of San Diego, California with brothers Robert DeLeo (bass) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), Eric Krets (drums), and Scott Weiland (vocals). The band found immediate success with the 1992 release "Core", and went on to become one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1990's. Four more studio albums followed: "Purple" (1994), Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Shop (1996), No. 4 (1999), and Shangri-La Dee Da (2001). The band broke up in 2002. They eventually reunited for a reunion tour in 2008 and released a new self-titled album in 2010.