Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts Unveil Debut Album Details

Venerated frontman Scott Weiland, of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fame, will release the debut studio full-length with new backing band The Wildabouts at the end of March, it has been revealed.

The album, titled Blaster, was recorded throughout 2014 at Burbank's Lavish Studios and The Sandbox, in Beachwood Canyon, with production duties being handled by veteran desk-man Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). It's currently due for release internationally on Tuesday 31 March.

Although Blaster marks the outfit's first work together, Weiland and his Wildabouts cohorts — Jeremy Brown (guitar), Tommy Black (bass) and Danny Thompson (drums) — have a long history together that extends well beyond their first US tour back in 2013, and Weiland believes that tight-knight dynamic has inextricably informed the way in which the debut album took shape.

"The album has its own distinctive sound, but it can also entice those Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans who have stuck by me," Weiland said of the new release in a statement. "Over the years, I've gone back and forth between art records and being in a band. This is a hybrid. What we've come up with is really heavy, slinky, and sexy. There's a lot of fuzz. The best way to describe it is 'furry'.

"I knew I wanted to make a rock record — it all just came together."

Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts are due to set off on an extensive tour of North America in February and March, but there's a whole nine months beyond that where they'll be looking to fill their schedules, so if you've ever been a fan of the man's work, make sure you support the new goods and hold out hope for an antipodean journey in the near future.

In the interim, you can hear the slightest of previews from the new work in the announcement video from Weiland below.