In a brand new interview with KLAQ 95.5 FM El Paso’s Finest Rock 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 have talked about stuff, however nothing is definitive, nothing’s been deliberate. We’re letting this all simply sort of develop organically, reconnect as human beings and as a band. And I feel that if we proceed to try this, in some unspecified time in the future in time it is inevitable that probably new music would come out of that. I do not suppose it is out of the query. However, once more, like I stated, there’s nothing deliberate, and nothing to announce proper right here on KLAQ.”
Stapp beforehand talked about the opportunity of new CREED music this previous June in an interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station. He stated on the time: “We’re speaking about it. We’re taking issues sluggish. We’re rebuilding, we’re relearning about one another. We’re reconnecting. I feel this expertise has been sort of like a — it is placing on an previous glove, however we have all modified. We’re all older, now we have youngsters, now we have totally different duties and priorities in life. And we’re all extraordinarily centered. And I feel that when that day comes once we resolve to make a CREED file, I feel it will be most likely, if not on par, higher than something we have ever carried out. Simply primarily based upon the life expertise that now we have, all the things we have carried out the final two years of taking part in collectively, I feel that units the stage that when it is the proper time, it is gonna be unimaginable.”
Stapp additionally talked about what it has been like for him and his CREED bandmates to reunite in the summertime of 2024 for the “Summer time 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 exhausting to place into phrases,” Scott stated about returning to taking part in arenas. “After all, the cliché phrase could be it is surreal. However, man, it was thrilling. There was simply a lot power and connection between the band guys. We had 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 feel that that motivates us to play each present prefer it could possibly be our final, as a result of we have been in that scenario the place we had that final present after which all the things went away. So I feel that offers us a brand new sense of urgency, power and keenness for each present. And to listen to the followers sing each music and the power that is within the room, man, it is a dream come true, and we do not take a second of it as a right.”
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 time Of ’99 cruise and Summer time Of ’99 And Past cruise. In Could 2024, in the meantime, the band’s multiplatinum-selling “Biggest Hits” assortment made its large debut on vinyl (through Craft),touchdown the gathering again into the Billboard Prime 200, in addition to hitting Prime Arduous Rock & Various Albums, Prime Various Albums, and shifting up the Prime Arduous 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 time Of ’99”, on July 17, 2024 at Resch Middle in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin.
With greater than 53 million albums bought worldwide, CREED stays one in every of trendy rock’s most profitable acts. Now, 30 years into their unimaginable journey, CREED is greater than ever. In late 2023, the Texas Rangers made “Larger” their unofficial anthem, because it spurred them to their first World Sequence win. In early 2024, the music appeared in a high-profile Paramount+ Tremendous Bowl industrial, whereas a NASCAR Daytona 500 marketing campaign additionally included the hit single. Alongside the way in which, CREED has gained a brand new era of followers, due to 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 time Of ’99” cruise festivals in April 2024, adopted by two separate U.S. tour legs final yr. Scott stated: “There was a time that I did not suppose that issues would come collectively. We started having conversations, I feel, in 2020 once we began to note this sort of viral factor taking place organically on-line. And so conversations had 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 sort of had been feeling it. Calls had been made. Then administration was speaking. And all of us simply sort of migrated to one another organically, sort of the identical method we did in 1994 once we began the band. After which once we acquired collectively and began rehearsing, the power inside the band — there was a lot love within the room, a lot assist within the room. All of us sort of went from again in 2001, [200]2 and [200]3, once we sort 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 tasks and had been again on the market [sweating] it out in golf equipment and bars. And I do know it is sort of most likely exhausting for folks to imagine, nevertheless it’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 feel it was a crucial factor for us to develop as people and human beings, but in addition to essentially respect what had occurred to us between ’96 and 2000, into 2003, 2004.”
Scott added: “I feel all the things occurred so quick and so fast on our first three CREED information and the rise to arenas was, like, 12 months. I feel that is not typical. It is exceptional. And I feel when it occurs like that, you miss out on what paying your dues does to you when it comes to your stage of appreciation, your stage of maturity, your skill to deal with the expansion at such a speedy tempo when it occurs, your gratitude, your gratefulness, your maturity, your understanding of the large image and your affect. And so I feel we sort 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 taking part in golf equipment, they had been taking part in golf equipment, after which right here we’re all these years later greater than we had been once we went away in 2004. And so I feel 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 affect 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 taking part in music. I like doing this. It did not occur like CREED, so initially I used to be sort of, like, ‘What am I purported to do? I like making music.’ However I simply saved at it, saved at it, saved at it. And right here we’re with [my solo single] ‘Larger Energy’ breaking the Prime 10 and now ‘Black Butterfly’ Prime 5 and with extra music to come back. And so it is actually been only a full full-circle expertise with CREED and my solo profession all sort of peaking on the identical time.”
Requested what it’s like seeing the love that CREED is getting another time, and a complete new era is studying concerning the band, Scott stated: “It is most likely one of the vital gratifying and humbling experiences you’ll be able to have as an artist, particularly the place all of us are in our hearts and in our minds and in our spirits immediately. To see a complete new era that by no means noticed a CREED present — most of them weren’t even born once we broke up. I imply, I feel the numbers, if I am quoting them appropriately, I feel over 80 % of our tickets bought out of the near-million tickets we bought final yr had been between [people between the ages of] 18 [and] 35. We have now a complete new era 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 need to give the followers what they deserve. I wanna symbolize my kids and my buddies in the easiest way that I can, so 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 had been very public and at instances very humbling. And so this is a chance to sort of finish the film the proper method. However I nonetheless suppose the film’s being written. However I feel you get what I am saying by that.”
