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"Creed are simultaneously looking back and ahead these days. While the band is hitting the road April 13th in Chicago for a month-long tour that will find them playing their first two albums, My Own Prison and Human Clay, from start to finish, the band is also well into working on a new album, their first since 2009&amp;apos;s Full Circle.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;We spent about three to four weeks together jamming and writing new material,&amp;quot; frontman Scott Stapp tells Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;We feel five [new songs] have the symmetry and continuity within themselves and will make the record. So if you want to look at it from that perspective, we&amp;#x2019;re halfway there.&amp;quot;\r\nRight now there is no timeline for the record, though Stapp says, &amp;quot;We could begin tracking as soon as March, and [if that happens] of course we&amp;#x2019;ll have a record out this summer.&amp;quot; Regardless, the whole band is in agreement that the top priority is making the best record they can. &amp;quot;We&amp;#x2019;re gonna continue to write until we feel we have the strongest, best album we&amp;#x2019;ve ever done. That&amp;#x2019;s our goal. If it takes all year to do that and the album doesn&amp;#x2019;t come out until next year, then so be it.&amp;quot;\r\nGiven their excitement about the new record, is there a chance the band could preview some new material on the upcoming tour? &amp;quot;We would love to. If we get it where it needs to be, we&amp;apos;ll definitely play it,&amp;quot; guitarist Mark Tremonti says.\r\nTremonti agrees with Stapp&amp;apos;s assessment that they have about five tracks locked in to make the record. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s two that you might hear on the radio,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s one heavier, high-energy type of tune. And there&amp;apos;s kind of a moodier, slower, longer finger-picked song, like &amp;apos;Faceless Man.&amp;apos; It&amp;apos;s kind of all over the place, but we&amp;apos;re very happy with what we&amp;apos;ve got so far.&amp;quot;\r\nThere will also be some clues to the new album in the older material when the band revisits the first two albums on their upcoming tour. &amp;quot;It just reminds you to not overcomplicate things,&amp;quot; Tremonti says. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ll stick to making a record formed around these big melodies that I think were always kind of the essence of the band.&amp;quot;\r\nAdds Stapp: &amp;quot;As we&amp;#x2019;re going through this material, jamming and stuff, I think it brings back the memories of how things were before the success &amp;#x2013; our relationships and how we looked at what to do, an appreciation for it all. It&amp;#x2019;s definitely rubbing off on the new music.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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