Black has been arrested and booked for fifth degree felony possession of drugs by the Bloomington Police Department in Minnesota, where Weiland and his band made a tour stop yesterday.
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Weiland’s cause of death is yet to be determined, and additional details will be released at a later time, according to the police statement.
Weiland’s current band, Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts, were scheduled to play at a Medina, Minnesota, concert venue, on Thursday.
Friday’s police statement confirmed Weiland had died and said his band’s tour bus was parked in a lot across the street from the Mall of America in Bloomington, a city about 15 kilometres south of Minneapolis.
“I can’t deal with this right now”, she said, sobbing.
Tributes have started hitting social media, with former Nirvana star Krist Novoselic tweeting, “Really sorry to hear about Scott Weiland”, and Ryan Adams wrote, “RIP Scott Weiland Universe, please take care of him”.
He left Stone Temple Pilots in 2013, when he was sacked for his “erratic” behaviour. Weiland’s most famous tracks include “Sex Type Thing”, “Wicked Garden”, “Dead & Bloated” and “Creep”.
Powered by Weiland’s distinctive lower register snarl, Stone Temple Pilots went on to sell 13.5 million albums in the USA – but their stadium-ready anthems became a target for grunge purists, who accused them of being sell-outs.
It has surfaced that Scott Weiland’s immediate cause of death was cardiac arrest, reports Metal Injection. We know amidst the good and the bad you struggled, time and time again.
“You were gifted beyond words, Scott – part of that gift was part of your curse”.
The singer rose to fame as the front man of the Grammy Award-winning Stone Temple Pilots. Among that group’s hits was “Fall to Pieces” and “Slither”, which won the Grammy for best hard rock performance.
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“From the massive success he achieved as the original lead vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots to his work with rock supergroup Velvet Revolver and his most recent venture with the Wildabouts, Scott’s extraordinary talent and captivating performances will forever live on and inspire legions of rock fans worldwide”. The same year, he pled guilty to heroin possession. After their divorce, he was married to the model Mary Forsberg from 2000 to 2007; the couple have two children, Noah and Lucy.
