Weathered - Creed

Creed were an American rock/indie band formed ion the early 1990s under the name Naked Toddler. Under the name Creed they released three studio albums before splitting. Their third album is this one, Weathered, and answered many critics who had slated them for their first two albums. Weathered was released in 2001 to great critical and commercial acclaim. The album showed a good mix of heavy rock tracks and some lighter, mainstream commercial sounding indie records. This is when I first became aware of Creed, as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) used the track 'My Sacrifice' as the theme tune for the wrestler known as Edge. The track was successful ...  Read the complete review

The aptly named album, Weathered, as in a “survived and withstood the storm” sense, is the third and still the most recent offering from Florida-based band, Creed. Released in 2001, it came out on the back of a slating by the critics of their first two albums, and of the band in general. However, along with millions of (predominantly American) Creed fans, I ignored the critics and having enjoyed their second album Human Clay, happily forked out a tenner and added Weathered to my collection. I’ve now listened to it consistently for a couple of years, and it was definitely a tenner well-spent. ...  Read the complete review

Despite all the critisicm they seem to reel in everywhere they go, Creed really have done well with this album, as they did with their previous two. It's very noticable at first that this album is a lot less mournful, uplifting side of Creed. Scott (singer and lyricist) has moved on from a lot of his troubles in life. Still this record doesn't fail to arouse feelings in the listener, like them or not. The album kicks off with 'Bullets,' probably the heaviest song Creed have done. It's basically about the criticism they so commonly take. A very angry song, 'I THINK THEY SHOOT CAUSE THE WANT IT!!!' takes you into a heavily ...  Read the complete review