If you don't name your source, then you are simply starting and passing rumors, simple as that. If you refuse to name your source, then you are simply starting and passing rumors, simple as that.
And as far as everything that has been released, the band is not in the studio. The band has gone on their own ways for the time being. Tremonti, Marshall, Phillips, and an unknown singer may be in the studio working on their own album, and Stapp may be doing the same, but the band Creed as we know it is not working together at the moment.