In a brand new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, CREED singer Scott Stapp was requested if there was any speak of him and his bandmates engaged on some contemporary music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’re speaking about it. We’re taking issues gradual. We’re rebuilding, we’re relearning about one another. We’re reconnecting. I believe this expertise has been form of like a — it is placing on an outdated glove, however we have all modified. We’re all older, we’ve youngsters, we’ve totally different duties and priorities in life. And we’re all extraordinarily centered. And I believe that when that day comes after we determine to make a CREED file, I believe it will be in all probability, if not on par, higher than something we have ever completed. Simply primarily based upon the life expertise that we’ve, every part we have completed the final two years of enjoying collectively, I believe that units the stage that when it is the best time, it is gonna be unbelievable.”
Stapp additionally talked about what it has been like for him and his CREED bandmates to reunite final summer time for the “Summer season Of ’99” tour, joined by the likes of 3 DOORS DOWN, FINGER ELEVEN, SWITCHFOOT, FUEL, BIG WRECK and DAUGHTRY. The band then headed into arenas final November and December on the “Are You Prepared?” tour with 3 DOORS DOWN and MAMMOTH WVH within the U.S. and MAMMOTH WVH and FINGER ELEVEN in Canada. “Man, it is arduous to place into phrases,” Scott mentioned about returning to enjoying arenas. “In fact, the cliché phrase can be it is surreal. However, man, it was thrilling. There was simply a lot power and connection between the band guys. We have been having a very good time, and I hope the viewers noticed it. And we’re fired up up there. I imply, we’re soaking all of it in, we’re all current, we’re all within the second. And everyone knows what it is wish to have that after which not have that, so there is a new stage of appreciation for these moments. And I believe that that motivates us to play each present prefer it may very well be our final, as a result of we have been in that state of affairs the place we had that final present after which every part went away. So I believe that offers us a brand new sense of urgency, power and fervour for each present. And to listen to the followers sing each track and the power that is within the room, man, it is a dream come true, and we do not take a second of it without any consideration.”
In the summertime of 2023, after an 11-year hiatus, CREED introduced their long-awaited reunion — returning to the stage for the primary time on the sold-out Summer season Of ’99 cruise and Summer season Of ’99 And Past cruise. In Might 2024, in the meantime, the band’s multiplatinum-selling “Biggest Hits” assortment made its broad debut on vinyl (through Craft),touchdown the gathering again into the Billboard Prime 200, in addition to hitting Prime Laborious Rock & Various Albums, Prime Various Albums, and transferring up the Prime Laborious Rock Albums rankings. Initially issued in 2004, the 14-track compilation spans the band’s first three albums (1997’s “My Personal Jail”, 1999’s “Human Clay” and 2001’s “Weathered”).
CREED kicked off its first tour in 12 years, “Summer season Of ’99”, on July 17, 2024 at Resch Heart in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin.
With greater than 53 million albums bought worldwide, CREED stays one among trendy rock’s most profitable acts. Now, 30 years into their unbelievable journey, CREED is larger than ever. In late 2023, the Texas Rangers made “Greater” their unofficial anthem, because it spurred them to their first World Sequence win. In early 2024, the track appeared in a high-profile Paramount+ Tremendous Bowl business, whereas a NASCAR Daytona 500 marketing campaign additionally integrated the hit single. Alongside the way in which, CREED has gained a brand new technology of followers, because of numerous TikTok movies that characteristic their songs.
This previous January, Stapp was requested by Sylvia Alvarado of the Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3 what the dialog was like about getting CREED again collectively in July 2023, initially for 2 totally different “Summer season Of ’99” cruise festivals in April 2024, adopted by two separate U.S. tour legs final yr. Scott mentioned: “There was a time that I did not suppose that issues would come collectively. We started having conversations, I believe, in 2020 after we began to note this type of viral factor taking place organically on-line. And so conversations have been had about doubtlessly doing one thing. And I simply felt on the time — I did not wanna rush it. I did not wanna simply toss something collectively, and I needed it to be actual. I needed it to be genuine. I needed it to be the place everybody’s coronary heart was in it.”
He continued: “I can not actually say it was one individual or the opposite [who initiated the discussions]. All of us form of have been feeling it. Calls have been made. Then administration was speaking. And all of us simply form of migrated to one another organically, form of the identical approach we did in 1994 after we began the band. After which after we obtained collectively and began rehearsing, the power throughout the band — there was a lot love within the room, a lot assist within the room. All of us form of went from again in 2001, [200]2 and [200]3, after we form of ended our run there, doing a number of nights in the identical metropolis and sold-out arenas, having stadiums on maintain, all of us went our separate methods and began over with our solo careers and our different initiatives and have been again on the market [sweating] it out in golf equipment and bars. And I do know it is form of in all probability arduous for folks to consider, but it surely’s true. The opposite guys did, and I did as nicely. And it was fairly the distinction to what we had simply skilled in CREED, however I believe it was a vital factor for us to develop as people and human beings, but additionally to actually respect what had occurred to us between ’96 and 2000, into 2003, 2004.”
Scott added: “I believe every part occurred so quick and so fast on our first three CREED information and the rise to arenas was, like, 12 months. I believe that is not typical. It is exceptional. And I believe when it occurs like that, you miss out on what paying your dues does to you by way of your stage of appreciation, your stage of maturity, your means to deal with the expansion at such a fast tempo when it occurs, your gratitude, your gratefulness, your maturity, your understanding of the massive image and your impression. And so I believe we form of did that in reverse. So we had all of it after which went again and paid our dues in reverse. I went again to enjoying golf equipment, they have been enjoying golf equipment, after which right here we’re all these years later greater than we have been after we went away in 2004. And so I believe all of that contributed to our gratitude and the way we walked in, as a result of we’re all far more mature and have a deeper appreciation. And it undoubtedly had an impression on me in my solo profession, as a result of I used to be on the market slugging it away on my first three solo information, questioning, ‘Ought to I proceed?’ I like enjoying music. I like doing this. It did not occur like CREED, so initially I used to be form of, like, ‘What am I presupposed to do? I like making music.’ However I simply stored at it, stored at it, stored at it. And right here we’re with [my solo single] ‘Greater Energy’ breaking the Prime 10 and now ‘Black Butterfly’ Prime 5 and with extra music to return. And so it is actually been only a full full-circle expertise with CREED and my solo profession all form of peaking on the identical time.”
Requested what it’s like seeing the love that CREED is getting yet again, and a complete new technology is studying in regards to the band, Scott mentioned: “It is in all probability probably the most gratifying and humbling experiences you may have as an artist, particularly the place all of us are in our hearts and in our minds and in our spirits at present. To see a complete new technology that by no means noticed a CREED present — most of them weren’t even born after we broke up. I imply, I believe the numbers, if I am quoting them accurately, I believe over 80 p.c of our tickets bought out of the near-million tickets we bought final yr have been between [people between the ages of] 18 [and] 35. We’ve got a complete new technology of followers. And all I can say is I am grateful, and I imply that from the underside of my coronary heart. I perceive how uncommon that is. I’ve an appreciation for it, and I simply wanna do it proper. And I wish to give the followers what they deserve. I wanna signify my kids and my pals in one of the simplest ways that I can, in order that they’re pleased with me, and depart a legacy that they are pleased with, as a result of it is no secret I went by means of my struggles, and so they have been very public and at occasions very humbling. And so this is a chance to form of finish the film the best approach. However I nonetheless suppose the film’s being written. However I believe you get what I am saying by that.”