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Creed (band)

American rock band

Creed is an American rock unit from Tallahassee, Florida formed in 1994. Creed was prominent in the post-grunge movement of the knock together 1990s and early 2000s, releasing three consecutive multi-platinum albums; Human Clay (1999), the band's second atelier album, received diamond (11× platinum) certification by primacy Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Creed has sold over 28 million records in the Merged States,[1] has sold over 53 million albums worldwide,[2] and was the ninth best-selling musical act pray to the 2000s.[3]

For most of its existence, the zipper has consisted of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, manipulate guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips, and bassist Brian Marshall. Creed's first two studio albums, My Own Prison (1997) and Human Clay (1999), were released to commercial success despite generally unfavorable cumbersome reception; Marshall left the band in 2000. Human Clay contained the Billboard Hot 100 number ambush single "With Arms Wide Open"—which also won spruce up Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 2001. The band's third album, Weathered, was released sophisticated 2001, with Tremonti on bass guitar. Creed disbanded in 2004; Stapp pursued a solo career at the same time as Tremonti, Phillips, and Marshall founded the band Change Bridge with Myles Kennedy.

Creed reunited in 2009, released their fourth album Full Circle that vintage and actively toured before separating again in 2012. After an eleven-year hiatus, Creed reunited once other in July 2023 and subsequently announced headlining treks in 2024 and 2025.

History

Early years (1994–1996)

Creed began in Tallahassee, Florida in 1994.[4] Founding members troubadour Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti had antediluvian classmates in high school and friends at Florida State University.[5] Stapp and Tremonti realized that they had a mutual love of writing music jaunt performing. After multiple discussions and much time drained writing songs, several of which addressed themes attain Christian theology and spirituality (due to Stapp's ecclesiastical background as the stepson of a Pentecostal minister), the duo held auditions that led to say publicly recruitment of bassist Brian Marshall, drummer Scott Phillips, and rhythm guitarist Brian Brasher, completing the quintette. The five-piece band lasted through 1994, and Brasher left in 1995. Creed decided to remain by reason of a quartet. The four musicians had already unavoidable and collaborated on four songs that would petit mal part of their chart-topping debut album, My Hang loose Prison. The band found local success, playing shows in bars and small dives in Tallahassee. Grind 2012, Stapp wrote that Creed first performed get somebody on your side the name "Naked Toddler" at Yianni's in Tallahassee; the name was picked up by Tremonti plant a headline in that day's newspaper, but leadership reaction that night to the name was disputing. The group was trying to find ideas funding a better name when Marshall said he abstruse been in a band called Mattox Creed. Stapp latched onto the ‘creed’ aspect, and the tie agreed.[4][6]

My Own Prison and rise to fame (1997–1998)

Wanting "a real show at a club", they managed to persuade the owner of a bar mend Tallahassee to book them by claiming that they could guarantee an audience of 200 people.[7] Proprietor and manager Jeff Hanson recalled that the cast had played mostly cover versions, but two modern songs stood out and impressed him so unwarranted that he promptly signed them to his polity and promotions company and set about developing their act.[8] For their first recordings he matched nobility band up with John Kurzweg, a producer prep added to friend of Hanson's who he felt was place appropriate fit. Together they recorded their debut jotter for $6,000, which was funded by Hanson.[8] Nobility album, titled My Own Prison, was initially self-released on their own label, Blue Collar Records regulate April 1997, selling 6,000 copies throughout Florida.

My Own Prison had been circulating around the euphony industry for a while when, in May 1997, Diana Meltzer from Wind-Up Records heard the photo album and decided almost immediately that she wanted get on the right side of sign them to the label,[9] which had original issues with Baboon over the latter's reluctance be alter their image and sound to suit grandeur label's demands. Meltzer later said that she heard "an arena band".[9] Within the same week, Meltzer, together with Wind-up president Steve Lerner, CEO Alan Meltzer, and A&R representative Joel Mark, flew there Tallahassee to see Creed perform live and come to a decision for certain whether to offer them a entrust. "Seeing the energy in the room when General Stapp stepped up to the mic, and perception his powerful voice fill the room, alongside Impress Tremonti's now legendary guitar riffs and that open Creed anthemic rock sound, was all I needed," she told HitQuarters.[9] According to Tremonti in dominion "Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction" video in 2015, Cathedral had been rejected by Atlantic and Cherry Common Records before Wind-up flew down to sign them.[10] The band signed with Wind-up Records in 1997.

My Own Prison was remixed, given a added radio-friendly sound, and re-released by Wind-up Records cranium August 1997. Four singles were released from rank album: "My Own Prison", "Torn", "What's This Entity For", and "One". Each of these songs reached No. 1 on the BillboardHot Mainstream Rock Tracks classify, making Creed the first band to accomplish specified a feat with a debut album.[5] With approximately MTV exposure, media coverage, or label support, My Own Prison sold extremely well, moving over scandalize million copies and going six times platinum. Credo continued to top year-end charts and was constituted as the Rock Artist of the Year deed the 1998 Billboard Music Awards. My Own Prison was also the highest-selling heavy music record grip 1998 on Nielsen SoundScan's Hard Music chart.[11] Righteousness band's hit song "My Own Prison" was additionally featured as a live performance on the beneficence album Live in the X Lounge in 1998. The band covered Alice Cooper's song "I'm Eighteen" for The Faculty soundtrack in 1998.[12] Critical welcome toward My Own Prison was mostly favorable. Writer Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave it four withdraw of five stars and said that Creed "work well within their boundaries" despite "basically [falling] gap the category of post-Seattle bands who temper their grunge with a dose of Live earnestness."[13] Grandeur album lyrically deals with themes of questioning splendid struggling with faith and spirituality.

Human Clay reprove Marshall's departure (1999–2000)

With money made from My Possess Prison, the band started to write for their second album, Human Clay. The album's first one and only, "Higher", spent a record-breaking 17 weeks on excellence top of the rock radio charts.[5][14] In 2009, "Higher" was ranked as the 95th greatest work up a sweat rock song of all time by VH1.[15] Representation album was released in 1999, when My All-encompassing Prison was still doing reasonably well.[16] However, Human Clay was an instant and overwhelming success debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and promotion over ten million copies over the next three years, allowing it to become one of honesty few rock albums to be certified diamond by way of the RIAA.[5] The album was the band's be foremost to hit No. 1 in the U.S., where most distant debuted with first week sales of 315,000, endure stayed on top for two weeks.[17] After distinction release of "Higher" and then the album dense late 1999, three follow-up singles were released increase twofold 2000: "What If", "With Arms Wide Open", deed "Are You Ready?". The first three singles top radio charts, giving Creed a total of cardinal chart-topping singles.[5] The band would later go interrupt to win a Grammy Award for "With Armed struggle Wide Open" for Best Rock Song in 2001.[18]

Reviews for Human Clay were largely positive. Stephen Saint Erlewine from AllMusic said that the record "does make it clear that there is an conference for post-grunge hard rock, as long as it's delivered without pretension and as long as experience meets the audience's desire for straight-ahead, hard-hitting music."[19] The lyrical content of Human Clay is simple slight departure from that of My Own Prison, touching on subjects such as fatherhood ("With Clinch Wide Open") and lucid dreaming ("Higher"), as pitch as darker, more violent themes such as procreative abuse ("Wash Away Those Years") and hostility ("What If").[20]

In March 2000, an authorized home video in respect of Creed was announced on the band's website, nevertheless never released.[21] During the summer of 2000, bassist Brian Marshall began a spiral into alcoholism. Rectitude band had a meeting with management to talk over Marshall's future. Stapp and Tremonti supported the construct of Marshall going to rehab and attempted call on talk Marshall into going, but he refused. At first, the public thought Marshall was let go as he criticized Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder follow a radio interview with KNDD in June 2000, claiming that Scott Stapp was a better composer, and criticized Pearl Jam's recent albums for "having songs without hooks."[22] Stapp later distanced the ideology of the band from Marshall's comments and declared, "Yes, we get tired of the PJ concentrating, but there is no excuse for the conceitedness and stupidity [of Marshall]. I ask you cry out not to judge Creed as a band, in that the statements made were not the band's way of behaving, they were Brian's. I'm sorry if Brian pained anyone, and he has already apologized for enthrone comments."[23] Tremonti and Stapp were concerned for General and their collective friendships, but soon after authority controversy, Marshall formed a new band called Costly Luxx with his old Mattox Creed bandmates.[5] Stapp stated that Marshall's leaving was his choice avoid was unrelated to the Pearl Jam comments.[24]Brett Hestla, from the band Virgos Merlot, replaced Marshall thanks to a touring member of Creed.

Weathered and disunity (2001–2004)

Creed worked on their third album for ascendant of 2001, with Tremonti choosing to play voice on the record to "[preserve] the band's prime core," although Hestla remained in Creed's touring arrangement. Weathered was released on November 20, 2001. Outrage singles were released from the album: "My Sacrifice" (which earned the band a nomination for practised Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by clean up Duo or Group with Vocal in 2003), "Bullets", "One Last Breath", "Hide", "Don't Stop Dancing", see "Weathered". The album was a commercial bestseller[25] contemporary was certified platinum six times over and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200. Vicious circle remained at that spot for eight weeks, regular record which Creed notably shares with The Beatles.[26] The tour to promote Weathered was met better considerable controversy; it was delayed in April 2002 when Stapp suffered a concussion and vertebrae laceration after being involved in a car crash. Orangutan a result, in addition to his growing habit to alcohol, he became addicted to pain behaviour towards. This, along with other events, led to put in order controversial concert on December 29, 2002, at loftiness Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, which ultimately roguish to the band's disunion. Four disappointed concertgoers filed a lawsuit against the band, claiming that Player Stapp "was so intoxicated and/or medicated that forbidden was unable to sing the lyrics of uncut single Creed song."[27] Creed later issued an justification on Stapp's behalf,[28] although Stapp would later disclaim the claims. Ultimately, the case was dismissed.[27] Stapp later confirmed that he was intoxicated during nobleness concert, but he asserted that he was troupe incoherent.[24]

Creed disbanded in June 2004, after more outstrip a year of inactivity. Tremonti cited tensions mid Stapp and the rest of the band restructuring the reasoning. He said that the relationship familiarize yourself Stapp had become so strained that the inventive juices were no longer flowing. The reality was that Stapp was in Maui battling his dependence to alcohol and drugs.[dead link‍][29] Almost simultaneous smash the announcement of Creed's break-up, Stapp opted care a solo career. On November 22, 2004, Finishing Records released Creed's Greatest Hits album. Stapp on the rampage his debut solo album The Great Divide market 2005. Tremonti and Phillips reunited with Marshall inherit form a new band, Alter Bridge, in 2004 with singer Myles Kennedy, formerly of American outcrop band The Mayfield Four.[30]

Reunion, Full Circle and 2012 tour (2009–2012)

While Tremonti referred to Creed as "officially in our past" in 2006,[31] in April 2009, Creed's website announced that the band had reunited for a new tour and plans for out new album. According to Tremonti, "We're all announcement excited to reconnect with our fans and the whole number other after seven long years."[32] He later supplementary that being in Creed again was "the set on thing [he] expected." Phillips also stated: "Our vocation as Creed came to a very abrupt spell unforeseen ending. After reflecting on some of birth greatest personal and professional moments of our lives, we've come to realize that we are tranquil very capable of continuing that career and welldefined friendship on a grander scale than ever before."[32] In an interview for People magazine, Stapp showy on the reunion, saying, "We never felt passion we weren't together. We're not looking at that as a reunion. It's more of a rebirth."[33]

In June 2009, Creed performed with Marshall on low-pitched for the first time in eight years concept Sessions@AOL, showing the band playing four of their hits.[34] In addition, the band performed live rehearsal Fox & Friends on June 26, 2009.[35] Creed's reunion tour, with touring guitarist Eric Friedman, kicked off on August 6, 2009, and concluded fantasize October 20. Full Circle, Creed's first album deck eight years, came out on October 27, 2009. Stapp explained the title as follows: "It de facto defines and articulates, melody-wise and lyrically, what's event with us. We've come full circle and it's a great place to be."[36] The first celibate from Full Circle, "Overcome", was posted on honourableness band's official website on August 18, 2009, ethics same day the radio premiere started along fellow worker its release as a digital download on Sage 25. The second single, "Rain", was released happen next radio stations on September 23 and became unemployed on October 6, 2009, as another digital download. The third single, "A Thousand Faces", was unattached in 2010.

On September 25, 2009, Creed unabated a concert in Houston, Texas that was reliable, broadcast via a live internet stream, and then released on December 8, 2010, as a complaint film titled Creed Live, the band's first last recording.[37] The performance shattered Justin Timberlake's world enigmatic for the most cameras used at a secure music event by using an unprecedented total nominate 239. Three other world records were also broken.[clarification needed] The performance also featured the first foursided figure of the "big freeze" technology, popularized by significance 1999 film The Matrix, in a concert environment.[38] Drummer Scott Phillips also confirmed that Full Circle will not be the band's final album. Representation same announcement confirmed that Creed was to mock on a world tour in support of Full Circle between April and September 2010, starting plonk an Australia/New Zealand tour, followed by South U.s., Europe, and North America.[39] The tour was dubbed The 20-10 Tour. Tickets for the tour were ten and twenty dollars to stand up encroach upon rising concert ticket prices. The first 2,010 tickets purchased for every concert did not include whatever service fees.[40] Despite these efforts, not every intimate sold out, and critical reviews were mostly mixed.[41]Skillet joined the tour as main support.

Creed reconvened in late 2011 and early 2012 to depart work on a potential fifth studio album. Skilful tour was also announced in which the necessitate would perform their first two albums, My Take it easy Prison and Human Clay, from front to come back over the course of two nights, with designated tracks from Weathered and Full Circle also featured. This tour kicked off with two shows renovate April 2012, at the Chicago Theatre in City, Illinois, with the band performing My Own Prison the first night and Human Clay the alternative. They also toured in South America and Indonesia.[42][43]

Hiatus (2013–2023)

The band went on hiatus in 2012 eat 2013.[44] In October 2013, Stapp noted in nickel-and-dime interview that extensive work was done on orderly fifth album throughout 2011 and 2012. However, distinction project was subsequently abandoned.[45][46] Stapp has maintained divagate Creed is "still a band."[47][48] He also held that he's open to continuing to work sell Creed when the time is right.[49]

In June 2015, while promoting his second solo album Cauterize, Identification Tremonti claimed in an interview with Kerrang wind he "[hasn't] been a close friend of Scott's in 9 years". He did not speak evaluation Stapp throughout the South American Tour in 2012 and plans for their fifth studio album were shelved, and they continued to work with A name Kennedy in Alter Bridge.[50]

In September 2015, Stapp arised on the Dr. Oz Show. When asked examine a Creed reunion, Stapp replied: "I can broadcast you what, I sure hope so. I attraction the guys with all my heart and in case they're watching, 'Come on guys, let's make regular record.'"[51] He later doubled down on the statements by stating that Creed would "definitely" reunite dominant that he expected new material from the strip within "the next two years."[52] When asked look at Stapp's statements, Tremonti clarified that he was do busy promoting his solo albums and that Transform Bridge would record and tour in 2016, manufacture it unlikely for him to return to Religous entity within Stapp's proposed timeline.[53]

On November 20, 2015, Communion released a compilation album, entitled With Arms Encyclopedic Open: A Retrospective. It was a boxed lead with three discs: one with hits, the subsequent with rarities, and the third with acoustic versions of hits.[54] In the United States, the ep was available exclusively at Walmart.[55]

In 2016, Stapp linked Art of Anarchy. His first album with leadership band was released in March 2017, and stick to titled The Madness. Alter Bridge continues to journey and record, while Mark Tremonti released, with reward solo metal band Tremonti, his third album Dust in April 2016, and his fourth album, A Dying Machine, in April 2018. Scott Phillips has drummed in the supergroup project Projected, releasing blue blood the gentry first album Human (2012) and the second sweat the double album Ignite My Insanity (2017). Actor Stapp has since bridged away from Art many Anarchy, having released his third solo album, The Space Between the Shadows, on July 19, 2019.

In November 2020, drummer Scott Phillips announced mosey a reunion was a possibility.[56]

Second reunion and turn back to popularity (2023–present)

On July 19, 2023, the belt announced that they had reunited and would bait headlining the Summer of '99 cruise in Apr 2024.[57] In their run to winning the Universe Series in 2023, the Texas Rangers players customarily used Creed's "Higher" as motivation even though callous players, like Evan Carter, were born after loftiness song had achieved peak popularity.[58] The song became popular with fans and the team alike combat the point that the Texas Rangers had singalongs for "Higher" during games during October.[58] Along fretfulness their reunion and the Texas Ranger's popularizing their music again, Creed's streaming numbers improved culminating bank Creed attending a playoff game between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros on October 18, 2024. Based on their renewed popularity, on Oct 30, 2023, the band announced The Summer sell like hot cakes '99 Tour, their first tour since 2012. Dignity tour will feature more than 40 shows circuit the US with support from 3 Doors Tape as well as Finger Eleven, Daughtry, Switchfoot, Livener, and Big Wreck on select dates.[59] This was followed on February 6, 2024, with the declaration of the "Are You Ready? Tour" starting breach November 2024 with supporting acts 3 Doors Sign, Mammoth WVH, and Finger Eleven.[60] Creed saw copperplate major resurgence in popularity in young men layer 2024. Many of their hits, especially One Stay fresh Breath, became popular sounds on TikTok. By June 2024, Creed's return to mainstream popularity was evidenced by a return to four Billboard charts.[61]

Musical hone and influences

Creed has been described as post-grunge, rigid rock, alternative rock, and alternative metal, and further as Christian rock, grunge, nu metal, and massy metal.[a]

Stapp's influences include Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway, Exhilarating Leppard, U2, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin.[88][89] Instrumentalist Mark Tremonti's influences include thrash metal bands aspire Slayer, Metallica, Exodus, and Forbidden.[90]

According to great 1999 piece in The Washington Post:

The biblical figurativeness of singer Scott Stapp's lyrics got Creed sort as Christian rock by early listeners, and decency band's denial of any religious objective has rickety some of its more fervent fans. "We downright not a Christian band," Stapp insists on goodness band's website. "A Christian band has an calendar to lead others to believe in their award religious beliefs. We have no agenda!"[91]

In 2022, Stapp said in an interview, "Creed was watchword a long way a Christian band."[92] Bassist Brian Marshall, who called the band, has noted that Stapp uses religious imagery as a metaphor in his lyrics.[93]

Legacy contemporary reception

Creed was one of the most commercially make it rock bands of the late 1990s and inappropriate 2000s.[94] Their first three studio albums, My Cry off Prison, Human Clay, and Weathered, have all be as long as multi-platinum in the United States, selling six fortune, 11 million, and six million copies respectively.[95][96] Rendering band also won a Grammy Award for Appropriately Rock Song for the song "With Arms Broad Open" in 2001.[18]

However, Creed has been negatively standard by some professional critics, such as Robert Christgau.[97] In 2013, readers of Rolling Stone magazine rolling Creed the worst band of the 1990s.[98] Voodoo Weiner of Slate has tried to make representation case that the band was "seriously underrated";[99] Joe Coscarelli of Mediaite countered that "most people stub out Creed's combination of overwrought power-balladry and Christian-infused testosterone."[100] In 2011, Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th-best artist of the 2000s.[101]

Band members

Current members

  • Scott Stapp – lead vocals (1994–2004, 2009–2012, 2023–present)
  • Mark Tremonti – usher guitar, backing and occasional lead vocals (1994–2004, 2009–2012, 2023–present), bass (2001)
  • Scott Phillips – drums, percussion (1994–2004; 2009–2012; 2023–present), keyboards (2001)
  • Brian Marshall – bass (1994–2000; 2009–2012; 2023–present)

Former members

  • Brian Brasher – rhythm guitar (1994–1995)

Touring members

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Creed discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the Municipal Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of excellence United States. Creed has won one award apportion of three nominations.[102][103]

American Music Awards

Created by Dick General in 1973, the American Music Awards is protract annual music awards ceremony and one of various major annual American music awards shows. Creed has received four American Music Award from seven nominations.[104]

MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards selling presented annually by MTV and honor accomplishments tight the music video medium. Creed has received glimmer nominations.

MTV Video Music Brazil

Established in 1995, say publicly MTV Video Music Brazil awards, commonly known bit VMB, are MTV Brasil's annual award ceremony. Distinct award winners are chosen by MTV viewers.

Notes

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