Creed - Full Circle (2009)

Creed - Full Circle (2009)

When I started receiving mails from Wind Up (Creed’s record label) in the middle of 2009 announcing a new single and then a new full lenght album I thought they was going to release a Greatest Hits album or something like that, I was completely disconnected from Creed news since their breakup in 2004. I thought they never gonna come back since their last release Weathered a not so good album that was so far away from that crude and hard rock riffs from their first 2 albums.

In this new album we listen to a revitalized Creed, after 8 years of no recording new material, Overcome the opening track shows us that Creed is alive and well, first half of the album follows this way, then we listen a ballad, Rain, this is the typical Creed ballad, reminds me a little bit to My Sacrifice, but better, I never liked so much that song, with Rain I think they’ve done a better job (track A thousand faces is better too), maybe it’s the experience and the magic the band has when they play together.

Some more heavy tracks follow this album, Bread of Shame, Fear and On my Sleeve are remarkable and fill this album with energy and that good old rock n’ roll vibe Creed had in the early times of My own prison.

Best track I think is Full Circle, it really shows the escence of the sound of Creed and it shows that they recorded this album to make a big comeback and not just a “I need money right now let’s make an album” band reunion so typical in the recently past, let’s hope there’s some more Creed for a few more years.

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Gil Cepeda

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