Current members

Scott Stapp - Vocals
Mark Tremonti - Guitar, vocals, bass guitar on Weathered
Scott Phillips - Drums, percussion, keyboards
Brian Marshall (departed in 2000) - Bass guitar

Creed was a Grammy Award-winning rock band from Tallahassee, Florida that became a very successful mainstream rock band of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band announced its break-up in 2004 after three multiplatinum albums.

Creed originally came together in Tallahassee, Florida in 1995 as Naked Toddler when Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti, college friends, got together and started writing songs. They soon added bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. Brian Marshall came up with the band name "Creed", taken from the name of his former band, Mattox Creed.

Their debut album My Own Prison was independently released and only cost them $6,000 to produce, and distributed to Florida radio stations. This drew the attention of several labels that agreed to see the band, only to pass. Rejected, Creed was playing a small gig when Diana Meltzer from Wind-Up Records heard the group. She had heard their independent album, and after hearing them live, signed the band to her label.

Their second album, Human Clay, was released in 1999 and debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at number one, based on the strength of its first single, "Higher", which spent several weeks on the top of the rock radio charts. It wasn't until early 2000 that the single crossed over onto pop radio going to the Top Ten on the Billboard Pop Chart, and Creed became a household name. Its follow-up, "With Arms Wide Open," also hit number one that fall.

In the fall of 2001, "My Sacrifice", the first single off of Creed's last album Weathered, was used in a series of promotional tribute videos made by World Wrestling Entertainment. The song went on to be one of many inspirational songs post-9/11. They also had "Young Grow Old," a B-side to the 1999 release Human Clay, featured as the official theme song for World Wrestling Entertainment WWE's Backlash pay-per-view event in April 2002.

Despite the band's continual dismissals of the label, Creed is sometimes labeled Christian rock due to the fact that earlier albums focus on questions of faith, Christianity, and eternity. The band was never signed to a Contemporary Christian music label, nor did it perform in Christian Music venues or get any widespread regular play on Christian Radio.

Discography

1997 My Own Prison
1999 Human Clay
2001 Weathered 
2004 Greatest Hits