Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo has revealed that the American rock band spent the past week with Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington to write music for an upcoming album, according to Blabbermouth.
DeLeo revealed via Twitter that the group has been preparing to start recording on January 12 with their new vocalist.
"It's been a great week for writing new songs here at HOMeFry.... New STP starting Monday.... Stay tuned..." DeLeo wrote on Twitter.
This would be the band's first time to work on a CD with Bennington since releasing the EP "High Rise" in October 2013. The singe "Out of Time" off the record climbed to the number 1 spot.
Bennington was enlisted to do vocal duties for Stone Temple Pilots after founding member and vocalist Scott Weiland was fired from the band in 2013. The group's lineup had been unchanged since forming in 1985.
Bennington went on a full tour with the California band in 2013 before dropping off the radar, when their new singer went to work on an album with Linkin Park.
"His main concern definitely is Linkin Park and, you know, when he's busy with them, it offers [guitarist] Dean [DeLeo] and [drummer] Eric [Kretz] and myself time to really get some new music together. And when he's available, that's when we work, man, and we make the best of that time," the bassist said.
The progress continues the band's work in July, according to Loudwire, when Bennington found some time off from his other group.
As the band focuses on writing new material, it has also announced its first show of the year, a performance at Arizona Bike Week in Scottsdale , Ariz. On March 28.
Former singer Weiland, meanwhile, recently told in an interview that he is willing to reunite with his former bandmates in supergroup Velvet Revolver, according to an earlier Blabbermouth report. The band counts Guns N' Roses alumni among its members, including Slash.
"I have no problem with Slash. I have no problem with him at all. I wouldn't be opposed to, at some point, doing a Velvet Revolver reunion tour. That's just coming from my perspective, though. I know there's been a little banter before. And he was doing his own solo project, so he defused that. But, you know... That's the thing about rock and roll: you never can say never," he said in the interview on the "Lamont and Tonelli Show."