Scott Weiland, the frontman best known for his work with Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died, TMZ reports. He was reportedly found on a tour bus before his band Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts' performance in Hamel, Minnesota. He was 48.

In the late 1980s, Weiland started a band called Mighty Joe Young with Robert DeLeo. That band evolved into Stone Temple Pilots (after a blues musician who called himself Mighty Joe Young forced them to change the name). Following the success of their 1992 album Core, the band became extremely popular.

He released a series of solo albums starting with 1998's 12 Bar Blues and his 2011 holiday album The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. His band the Wildabouts' album Blaster was released in March.

Through the years, Weiland struggled with substance abuse.

The bassist for Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts was arrested by Minnesota police on felony drug charges after cocaine was discovered on the tour bus where the legendary rocker was found dead.

Weiland, 48, was found dead in a bedroom on the bus in Bloomington and police arrested Tommy Black, 47, after they located cocaine in the room when they executed a search warrant on Friday.

Authorities also discovered cocaine in a room that Black, who is now facing up to five years in prison and a hefty fine, was occupying on the band's bus while the rock group was touring.

The Bloomington Police Department said Weiland's cause of death will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office at a later time and further information wasn't available.

Photos posted on social media in the days before Weiland's death showed him partying with Black.

He died late on Thursday night, four days after rumors about him using crack cocaine began to swirl, and first responders said the rockstar had died of cardiac arrest, according to TMZ.

A statement on Weiland's Facebook page said the legendary singer passed away in his sleep.

Weiland and the Wildabouts were scheduled to play a show on Thursday night, but it was canceled a week earlier after fewer than 100 tickets were sold for a venue with a capacity of about 1,800.

Medina Entertainment Center general manager Mark Raskob said Weiland was 'bummed out'.

'The guy has just been battling addiction and it's sad to hear that he passed,' Raskob said.

Weiland was the larger-than-life frontman for the Grammy-award-winning Stone Temple Pilots in the 1990s and went on the found supergroup Velvet Revolver with guitarist Slash in the mid-2000s.

R.I.P.

outstanding vocalist