[Icedmofo]

It's sort of a catch 22 at this point in time. The grunge period has pretty much died out to the current r&b/pop/miley cyrus thing that's going on now.

So the truth is, let's say they wrote another album as kickass as my own prison was, it would STILL not blow them up significantly.

Creed caught the tail end of the grunge movement, which initiated their popularity, but what cemented it were songs like Higher and With Arms Wide Open, which were still rock, but far closer to "pop rock" than anything else they had written up to that point. Note that i am not in any way saying those two songs are pop rock, just that they were about as close as they'd ever come to it, and those were the songs that really shot them into superstardom.

Until the release of Higher and WAWO, creed wasn't really that much bigger than Alter Bridge became, they didn't really start playing the big venue shows until Human Clay.

What i'm also noticing as a trend in the music world is that there are similarities to the business world. People follow a brand. If you know that Sony is a really awesome brand, you will be more likely to invest in buying a playstation 3. If you'd never heard of sony before then you are less likely to buy the PS3. Likewise, if you know that nintendo makes a great product and know nothing about Sony, you are far more likely to buy a Wii than a PS3. The same goes for a lot of music acts.

You notice that a lot of the stuff up top is most of the time not really all that amazing. Not that it's uber terrible (well, some is), but it's nothing earth shattering as far as music is concerned, however, these bands have been around for awhile and have been building up steam, so people will download and buy their stuff simply because they are the Foo Fighters, even if the song isn't really all that great. I personally don't think Wheels is all that great of a song, but it's #1 on the rock singles chart simply because it's the foo fighters, so people are more inclined to listen, and therefore the song will grow on them until they DO like it.

Creed has the same ability to do that and IMO has songs that are just as contagious, but people haven't seen creed in awhile, many don't know they are back together or have released an album, plus add in the old stigma of everyone hates creed, and people just don't give them the chance they need to actually possibly enjoy them. Throw on top of that that they are receiving absolutely no real concrete promotion and it's a no brainer why they aren't very popular right now.

The hiatus hurt them a lot from a business standpoint, just as they were really building up tremendous career steam, they derailed the train and basically had to start all over again. Add on the fact that grunge basically died with them and it's really going to be difficult to revive what they had.

I don't think it's all as impossible as everyone is stating, i just think they need to jump labels to one that will really give them the backing and support they need to get their music heard. I know the reason that i personally started becoming a creed fan was i heard MOP on the radio and thought it kicked ass so i picked up MOP and Human Clay to hear what else they had and fell in love.

But if radio doesn't play the single, tv doesn't run the videos, and there is minimal promotion for the band, no one else is going to have the chance to experience that short of the people that are already fans and LOOK for this stuff actively.

Just my two cents.