Creed disbanded in 2004 but reunited in 2009 for their “Full Circle” album and an extensive tour. Singer Scott Stapp has since recorded and toured as a solo artist, and guitarist Mark Tremonti has his hand in many fires with his solo work, Alterbridge and a new Frank Sinatra covers album. Tremonti previously told Jamey Jasta that he had an album’s worth of new Creed material written. “People say, ‘Is it done? Is it over? Is there new music coming out?’” Tremonti told Jasta. “I’m sitting on an entire Creed album… When we were together doing the reunion tour, we put a lot of music together and I have like really sketchy little demos of probably 13 songs. I listened to them maybe a year ago and they’re good songs.”
“It’s just, there’s no time. Is it good enough for me to put everything on the back burner that I’ve been working on for the past 14 years? No. Is it good enough to maybe 10 years from now or seven years from now… or some big resurgence happens or there’s an anniversary where everybody’s like, ‘We want to see Creed and the world demands it like they used to.’ I wouldn’t say no.”
Tremonti was again recently asked by Ghost Cult magazine about the possibility of a Creed reunion. “You never know,” he said. “It’s just one of those things where whenever it comes up, either our camp or Scott has something going on at the moment. So our stars have to align. In fact, right now if a promoter said, ‘Hey, we wanna do a huge Creed tour,’ I’d have to bypass all the stuff we’re working on at the moment. So we just have to wait till the time is right.”
Tremonti told The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn that being known as the guitarist from Creed has been a mixed bag. “Definitely both a blessing and a curse,” he said. “It’s a blessing because I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you right now if it weren’t for Creed; I wouldn’t have this career, this long career,” he said. “But at the same time, for my entire life, I will be that guy from the band Creed, which is good and band. ‘Cause certain people loved Creed, certain people hated Creed. So no matter what I do artistically, I’m gonna be the guy who was in Creed that was, at certain points critics liked to come after us. So I’ve kind of lived in both worlds — I was in a band that sold lots of records but got some critical attacks, but I also got to be in a band that didn’t sell as many records but got critical praise. So I got to see both sides of it. It would be great to have it all in one. But it’s tough.”
