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I used to quite like Creed, owning their ‘Human
Clay’ and ‘Weathered’ albums and
I remember it quite well when the band decided to
split up in 2004 due to singer Scott Stapp hitting
the bottle in a bad way and becoming out of control
for a matter of time, the remaining members of Creed
went and formed Alter Bridge a band who have released
two hit albums and are widely recognised all over
the world, Alter Bridge are now on a short break
and Creed have reformed with the same line up they
had before they split up.
I knew nothing of Creed reforming until their
latest album ‘Full Circle’ was posted
through my door; it was a bit of a pleasant surprise
as I never in a million years expected Creed to
reform and secondly the album is the best album
that Creed have ever released and I put that down
to the band members working in their slightly
heavier side project Alter Bridge.
Since Creed formed back in the late 90’s
there has always been a love and hate relationship
for the band from the fans of the alternative
music world and by looking at the sales of all
of Creeds album releases thousands of people have
been enjoying their music for a long time, but
at the same time there have been those haters
who say that Creed are to mellow, there not rock
and label them with the likes of Puddle Of Mudd
and Nickleback two bands which are extremely popular
but at the same time have more people that hate
them and are more than likely to win the best
and worst band in fan based award polls, but that’s
part of Creed’s charm and as long as people
are taking notice of them then they are doing
a good job.
‘Full Circle’ opens up with ‘Overcome’
which happens to be the first single to be released
from the album and it is a song that shows that
time away from the music industry has done Creed
some good as the song is faster and heavier than
anything they have done before, the song features
a massively powerful guitar solo and Scott Stapp’s
are loud, clear and aggressive sounding throughout.
‘Bread Of Shame’ opens up with a
massive blistering distorted guitar riff, instrumentally
the song is really heavy with twangy basslines
and beefy guitar riffs and vocally the song is
melodic with Scott Stapp singing along in a clear
and melodic way.
‘A Thousand Faces’ sounds like Creed
of yesterday, it starts with a soothing acoustic
guitar piece, the vocals soon come in and come
across in a catchy manner, the lyrics are clear
and well written, overall this is the token Creed
song where everyone will reach for their lighters
and mobile phones to wave them in the air at the
bands live shows.
The songs on the album that stand out the most
to me are ‘Rain’, the song is bound
to be released as a single at some point as it
is a big radio friendly happy song that has that
old skool Creed feel about it and, the other song
that stands out to me is ‘Fear’ the
song features some outstanding instrumental work
and Stapp’s vocals work wonders over the
top of it, the song sounds slightly like Nickleback
but that is part of the charm.
‘Full Circle’ is a massive return
to form for Creed, they may have been away from
the music scene for 5 years but that break has
clearly help them come back bigger and stronger
and the good thing about ‘Full Circle’
is that it features heavy moments as well as big
mellow melodic moments which is going to please
the hardcore fans and also help bring in new fans.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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Scott Stapp
Mark Tremonti
Scott Phillips
Brian Marshall |
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1. Overcome
2. Bread Of Shame
3. A Thousand Faces
4. Suddenly
5. Rain
6. Away In Silence
7. Fear
8. On My Sleeve
9. Full Circle
10. Time
11. Good Fight
12. The Song You Sing |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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