Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland, has launched a canopy of the latter’s 2004 basic Slither, and it comes with a video that is prone to be the strangest factor you will watch this week.
“The video is meant to be like a gnarly fever dream,” Weiland tells Rolling Stone. “One second I’m working away from my very own demons, the subsequent I’m lusting over a woman that I’ve a crush on making an attempt to avoid wasting her. I even get a go to from my father within the dream as nicely, which is one thing that occurs to me in actual life as nicely.”
The video, which Weiland made utilizing AI on his iPhone whereas mendacity in mattress, additionally options appearances from Weapons N’ Roses‘ Slash and Duff McKagan, who at one level seem to interact in a passionate kiss whereas caught in a swirling whirlpool made solely of cash, a two-headed cat, and Spiderman.
The video additionally options an look by guitarist Spencer Carr Reed, who labored with Weiland Jr. on final 12 months’s cowl of Stone Temple Pilots’ Intercourse Kind Factor, along with collaborating on his unique materials.
“I don’t need my complete identification based mostly off my father’s work,” Weiland says. “I’d relatively make music by myself phrases that’s true to myself however the followers will love as nicely.”
Final 12 months, Weiland and Reed labored collectively on Time Will Inform, an up to date model of a recording initially made by Scott Weiland as a solo observe, claiming they had been solely releasing it following an extortion menace made by an nameless blackmailer.
Weiland, who has been releasing music for 5 years, launched a solo single, 3009, final month, and an EP, Crashout Junkie, is on the best way.