In 2018, Stone Temple Pilots released their second self-titled album in eight years, marking their recording debut with new lead singer Jeff Gutt and their first release since the death of their original lead singer, Scott Weiland, in 2015 and his 2013-2015 successor, Chester Bennington, in 2017. Alternating between hooky alt-rock anthems and meditative power-pop ballads, Stone Temple Pilots granted a well-earned victory to a band that had suffered its fair share of public tragedy.