Life Of Agony and its frontwoman Mina Caputo is back this year with a new album called A Place Where There's No Pain, and the music we've heard thus far has been great. While Caputo seems to have full faith that the new album will be excellent, she's got her eyes set on something else entirely as well – being the new frontwoman of Stone Temple Pilots.
Caputo has a lot to say in her interview with Alternative Nation, so here's the gist of it, and that's that Caputo really wants the DeLeo brothers to know that she gets its and that she's up to the task.
"I feel like I know the DeLeo brothers and Eric Kretz. But I'm much more closer to rock 'n' roll than a lot of people — I was born with a Led Zeppelin record in my hand, y'know? And that being said, the Stone Temple Pilots — to me — have always been like the modern-dayLed Zeppelin. And I really always felt like I understood Scott's melodic sensibility. I always understood his masculine/femininity. I just feel like it's so meant to be. I feel like I'm the right person for the right equation, because not only would I do my damndest to honor the Stone Temple Pilots catalog — which is extremely Biblical to me — but more so than ever, I would love, love, love to create new music with the Stone Temple Pilots. With the DeLeo brothers. They are pretty much my top favorite of all musicians of all time. And I just feel like lyrically, melodically, the shit I've been through, that I would be able to deliver really."
Seriously, I don't think you understand how much Mina Caputo really wants to front Stone Temple Pilots. Caputo is all about this right now.
"I honestly don't think they really know the true essence and limitlessness of who I am as an individual, or a vocalist, or a front person. I think the only really good way for them to judge would be to actually get me in the room with them, or doing something new with them — to show them. Because I definitely have the sensibility. I know what they're looking for. I know what they want. I've watched many, many interviews with Dean and Robert, talking about kind of singer they want. And I'm the person. I know I am. And I know as far as loyalty… and if they wanted to do a lounge version of 'Plush', or a bossa nova version of 'Big Bang Baby', or a Spanish version of 'Where The River Goes' or 'Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart', I know they're looking for that singer that if they present like a jazz version of, let's just say, 'Dead & Bloated', they need a vocalist that can 'chameleon' their way vocally, lyrically, melodically into a new song or this already-existing song that they would want to do, and make it into this different kind of version. "
No word on if Scott Weiland's ghost has also come to Caputo to give her some words of encouragement, but we'll totally keep you posted.
