Creed

Scott Stapp * Lead Vocals
Brian Marshall * Bass
Scott Phillips * Drums
Mark Tremonti * Guitar, Vocals

Wind-up Records recording artists Creed have announced plans to release their highly anticipated second album on September 28th. The band has been recording the album, entitled Human Clay, in a house just outside of Tallahassee, Florida, with producer John Kurzweg. Kurzweg also produced Creed's TRIPLE-PLATINUM debut My Own Prison. 

On Human Clay, lead singer and lyricist Scott Stapp contemplates how responsibilities, choices and actions impact people. The album's first single "Higher" is about envisioning a perfect world while dreaming. Other songs explore fears of growing up and letting go of youth ("Never Die," "Young Grow Old"), conscience ("Faceless Man") and betrayal ("Beautiful") among other topics. Creed challenges their listeners to think without preaching or pretending to have all the answers. 

Creed warmed up for their fall tour during the summer by playing festivals in Europe and delivering an awesome performance on the main stage at Woodstock '99. The band gave fans at Woodstock '99 something positive to remember the festival by when they invited Robbie Krieger, guitarist for The Doors, to join them during their set. When frontman Scott Stapp introduced Krieger, the crowd of approximately 200,000 erupted in cheers and shouted along to Doors favorites "Roadhouse Blues" and "Riders On The Storm." Krieger stayed on to play slide guitar on Creed's "What's This Life For." The set also included the songs "Say I" and "Faceless Man" from the band's forthcoming album Human Clay. 

Creed was named Rock Artist of the Year at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards. My Own Prison was awarded Album of the Year by music industry polls in two radio trade magazines (Friday Morning Quarterback and Album Network) and ranked as the #1 selling Hard Music album for 1998 according to SoundScan.

FMQB also honored Creed as Best New Artist and declared the band's #1 Rock single "What's This Life For" Track of the Year. Three of Creed's #1 singles - "My Own Prison," "What's This Life For," and "Torn"-- earned spots in the Top 10 of Radio & Records' 1998 End of Year Active Rock Chart. "Torn" was named the 1998 #1 Active Rock Track of the Year by R&R. The band's most recent chart success has been with the song "One," which earned the band the distinction of being the first recording artists to have four #1 Rock singles from a debut album. "One" also reached #2 on the Modern Rock chart.

Creed stands out as a grassroots phenomenon, built fan-by-fan from the ground up. The Tallahassee, Florida quartet combines big guitars, dramatic vocals and bold lyrics to make music that is real – music with which real people can identify. Fans also jam radio station request lines, helping Creed to become the first band to ever have three songs in the top 20 of Billboard Monitor’s Rock chart at the same time. 

Creed is also a live band of rare potency. "Each performance is an intense experience for us," says singer Scott Stapp. "We play from the heart. I think that’s important the first time you see a band that you’re in love with. When we play, you can see the sweat dripping off my face and the spit coming out of my mouth. You can reach out and almost touch us. And I want to be able to see the audience. I want to be able to make eye contact with everyone in the room. It’s a show for the band, too. We’re looking at all these faces in the crowd and they’re putting on a show for us." Candor, commitment, and fervor are the hallmarks of Creed, comprised of Stapp and fellow songwriter/guitarist Mark Tremonti, and the assertive rhythm section made up of bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. Creed is a young band, but somehow they play together like seasoned pros. 

In 1997, Creed released My Own Prison (recorded for $6,000 with local producer John Kurzweg with funding from a local concert promoter. The album garnered local radio airplay, which fueled regional sales of 3,000 albums in just two months. Wind-up signed Creed shortly thereafter. My Own Prison was remixed by Ron Saint-Germain (Tool, Soundgarden, 311) and re-released in August of 1997. 

Creed continues to live up to their promise, every week gaining new followers to join their swelling ranks. "At the gigs," Scott says, "We find that about half the audience knows the record really well. The other half have heard of us. They seem to want to hear more. So we play even harder." 

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