Yes, it’s true. The Creed of four years ago is gone. The searing power that Creed held from start to finish in their 1997 debut album, My Own Prison, has been severely turned down. It’s still there, ...

For the last couple of decades, the best mainstream rock has come from total loose cannons with a tenuous grip on reality. In the late '80s, Guns N' Roses were the new loaded guns. With the group's ...