Creed – Full Circle

Releasedate: 27-10-2009; Label: Wind-up records
By: Lara Cappelli

Creed is a Post Grunge band formed in 1995. Because of several problems within the band, they disbanded in 2004. In the meanwhile, all the members of the band have been busy with their own projects: singer Scott Stapp released two solo albums and the rest of the band formed Alter Bridge in 2004. On April they announced their reunion and now they’re back with a new album.

I have to admit it, I was pretty sceptical about Creed’s reunion as I thought it was somehow a hasten decision. And I still think the same after having listened to Full Circle. It is doubtless a good album, the listening of it is flows quite well and all in all is pretty enjoyable, but it lacks of the typical sound the band had. Let’s say Creed style evolved into a more Rock sound, but on the other hand I must face it, the atmosphere is way more easy-listening and all the songs are quite predictable from a structure viewpoint. Despite that, there still are some good tracks on it: “Overcome”, for example, is the heaviest one of the album and it’s quite catchy. “A Thousand Faces” and “On My Sleeve” are also good enough, but then you find songs like “Rain” or “Fear” which are far from original and make the album slightly limp. The highlights are surely Mark Tremonti’s riffs which are greatly written and performed and bring, as always, that something extra to the listening, but that is not enough to make the whole album really outstanding.

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