In a recent interview with Matt Pinfield of 95.5 KLOS’s “New & Approved” show, CREED guitarist Mark Tremonti was asked if there has been any talk of him and his bandmates working on some fresh music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah. Just us coming back together after so long was kind of the big driver to get people to come to the shows [on the first reunion tour in 2024]. But as we keep doing it, we’re gonna need to introduce new music to keep saying, ‘Hey, we’re touring, supporting this new EP or this new record.’ So we’ve all talked about it, and we just have to make the time and figure out… We’re all spinning plates right now. Scott’s [Stapp, CREED singer] got his new [solo] record out. I’ve got my new [TREMONTI] record coming out. We got an ALTER BRIDGE record we’re gonna record [in 2025]. And then new CREED music, to try to start planting those seeds and get those things going. It just all can’t happen at one time. We’ve gotta put everything in its place.”In the summer of 2023, after an 11-year hiatus, CREED announced their long-awaited reunion — returning to the stage for the first time in April 2024 at the sold-out Summer Of ’99 cruise and Summer Of ’99 And Beyond cruise. In May 2024, meanwhile, the band’s multiplatinum-selling “Greatest Hits” collection made its wide debut on vinyl (via Craft),landing the collection back into the Billboard Top 200, as well as hitting Top Hard Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Alternative Albums, and moving up the Top Hard Rock Albums rankings. Originally issued in 2004, the 14-track compilation spans the band’s first three albums (1997’s “My Own Prison”, 1999’s “Human Clay” and 2001’s “Weathered”).Last summer, CREED completed the “Summer Of ’99” tour, joined by the likes of 3 DOORS DOWN, FINGER ELEVEN, SWITCHFOOT, FUEL, BIG WRECK and DAUGHTRY. The band then headed into arenas last November and December on the “Are You Ready?” tour with 3 DOORS DOWN and MAMMOTH WVH in the U.S. and MAMMOTH WVH and FINGER ELEVEN in Canada.CREED kicked off its first tour in 12 years, “Summer Of ’99”, on July 17, 2024 at Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin.In an August 2024 interview with Michael Christopher of Vanyaland, Mark was asked how many riffs and other ideas he has stockpiled for CREED’s next album. He responded: “Oh, I’ve got thousands. Literally thousands. I hoarded my ideas since I was, gosh, since I bought my first little handheld tape recorder — the little micro cassettes — saved my ideas since I was maybe in junior high school, high school.”Earlier that same month, Tremonti told Guitar Interactive magazine that he would like to work on some fresh music with his CREED bandmates. He said: “Yeah, I love writing music and I love doing it in many different ways. I love challenging ourselves, I love to be challenged, and writing for all these different acts, when you get into it, you’re, like, how am I gonna differentiate this from my other projects? How are we gonna make this its own thing and not sound like this other band with just a different vocalist on it?”Elaborating on CREED’s possible mindset while working on new music, Tremonti said: “I think putting a fresh look, but also um realizing what people loved about the band and trying to trying to keep that intact and not get too progressive in any way with CREED. We keep that to [my other bands] ALTER BRIDGE and TREMONTI and we keep CREED a little more the way it was back in the day — the big melodies, just the stuff that worked back in the day. I think on [CREED’s last album, 2009’s] ‘Full Circle’ record, we got somewhat a little more — I think we strayed a little bit from our original sound with that album. So I think it’d be good to try to get back to that original sound a little more.”With more than 53 million albums sold worldwide, CREED remains one of modern rock’s most successful acts. Now, 30 years into their incredible journey, CREED is bigger than ever. In late 2023, the Texas Rangers made “Higher” their unofficial anthem, as it spurred them to their first World Series win. In early 2024, the song appeared in a high-profile Paramount+ Super Bowl commercial, while a NASCAR Daytona 500 campaign also incorporated the hit single. Along the way, CREED has gained a new generation of fans, thanks to countless TikTok videos that feature their songs.Photo credit: Chuck Brueckmann[embedded content]