Supergroup Suspect208, which is made up of the sons of famous rockers like Slash and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, have announced they’ve let go of Noah Weiland due to drug use.
Suspect208 were the supergroup made up of the sons of members of Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, and Guns N’ Roses. Now, they’re the supergroup made up of the son’s of Metallica and Guns N’ Roses after letting Scott Weiland’s son go due to alleged drug use.
The hard rock band publicly announced Noah Weiland’s departure from the group in a now-deleted post on their social media, saying that, “he was heading down a dark path of drug use.”
The post read: “As many of you know, we let our singer, Noah, go. We were really close to him and it is the last thing we would’ve ever wanted to do, but it had to be done for his safety, as well as the longevity of the band.
“This decision was made by the band because it was the last thing we could do to keep going.”
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Noah’s late father, Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver’s Scott Weiland spoke about his addiction to substances prior to his untimely death.
“I always had to do heroin with coke. Fuckin’ do coke for a few hours straight until you’re going out of your mind, the fucking demons are trying to smash through the mirror, and then after that, it’s time to run down the hallway and get into the fucking bag as soon as you can, put that fuckin’ needle in the arm and get that shit in you quick to…to slow the fuckin’ world back down and close that fuckin’ hole to the next dimension,” he told Rolling Stone in 2007.
Scott Weiland was convicted of buying crack cocaine in 1995. He also admitted that he first tried heroin in a back room of New York City’s Royalton Hotel in 1993.
“When I tried heroin for the first time,” Weiland recalled in 1998, “it seemed to make all those insecurities just go away. I suddenly felt: ‘Wow, this is how normal people feel on a day-to-day basis.’” Within a year he was spending upwards of $3,000 a week on smack,” he told Esquire magazine.
Despite claiming 13 years of sobriety, on December 3, 2015, Scott Weiland was found dead on his tour bus from a toxic mix of drugs. His death was ruled accidental.
We wish Noah all the best and pray that he doesn’t head down the same tragic path as his father.
Suspect208 has posted on their Instagram that they are looking for a new LA-based singer, aged between 18 and 24 to audition by sending a cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’.
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