Creed are reuniting for a massive tour in 2024, but what about new music? In a new interview, singer Scott Stapp discusses the possibility of the band writing and recording new songs.
“[Guitarist] Mark [Tremonti] and I were together a couple days ago doing something like, some secret thing I can’t share,” Stapp told host Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. “But we were hanging out for a couple days and as we were hanging out, we just began talking about how we wrote [our 1999 album] Human Clay, and we wrote Human Clay while on the road touring My Own Prison.”
He continued, “And we wrote it at, during soundchecks, 80%, 90% of that record was written on stage during soundcheck. And you know what we’d do? We’d write a song and we’d get it tight and play it within three or four days of writing it, because we didn’t have enough material with just that one record to be a headliner. But we were headlining shows, so we didn’t want to fill our set with covers. So we were writing on the fly and just playing new songs, as we wrote them.”
Stapp went on, “Those were good times and both of us connected. And I could see in his eye, and I was feeling it too, that I think there’s gonna be some writing happening and it’s gonna be organic and I think it’s gonna be beautiful, man, if we get back to that place and that chemistry, which I think we’re gonna fall right back into once we start playing these songs together and we reconnect with through our relationships, through the songs that we created together. … I think we’re all in a fresh space and I definitely think the creative juices are gonna flow. And so I definitely think there’s hope for some new music.”
As for the future of Creed beyond the tour, Stapp said, “There’s definitely been some dialogue and some conversations, about this being something that continues. But again, there’s still a little bit of that ‘let’s see how it goes’ kind of deal. So I think part of us are in the moment saying, yeah, let’s, the excitement of this let’s make this something we do all the time. And then the other half of us is, alright, well let’s see how it goes. So with both of those, headspace is kind of living together, I think that’s a positive recipe. So if everyone just shows up with that, with that right attitude, I think, not to sound cliche, but it is cliche, I think the best is yet to come for Creed.”
Tremonti also expressed interest in writing new music with Creed. In a recent interview with Audio Ink Radio, he said that if the band “had known this was going to do so well,” meaning the cruise and reunion tour, “we would have planned ahead of time and done new music beforehand.”
Creed will headline two “Summer of ’99” cruises in April before kickoff their extensive North American tour in July. Tickets to their upcoming shows are available here.
Meanwhile, Stapp will release his new solo album, Higher Power, on March 15th via Napalm Records.
