Weathered by Creed

Weathered, Creed's third album, came out on Wind-up in November 2001, and it was made by a band down a man. Bassist Brian Marshall had left in August 2000, so Mark Tremonti covered the bass parts on top of his guitar, making this the only Creed record cut as a trio, with Scott Phillips on drums and Scott Stapp out front. Tremonti and Stapp wrote most of it in a three-week burst late in 2000, then set up with longtime producer John Kurzweg in a rented house with a studio in Ocoee, Florida, where the sessions ran four months from July 2001.

Stapp called it two records in one, and he had a point: some of the band's heaviest, most bruising riffs sit beside experiments and big, swelling ballads, and "My Sacrifice" and "One Last Breath" became the hits. The lyrics wrestle with faith, depression, loneliness, fame and the band's critics. Reviewers were split, but it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and stayed there eight straight weeks.

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