[Icedmofo]

I think he meant the unique sound within the breadth of their work, not compared to other music, you misunderstood him.

No band is a "unique" sound, they all were influenced by the bands that came before them.

It's really not the style or "sound" of their music that makes full circle that much of a departure from their old stuff, it's the lyrical content.

Some writers can just write and write prolifically and all their stuff is great, some get one album then run out of gas, some only have one songs worth.

I think it's a period of adjustment for all of them, they've been apart for a long enough time that the writing chemistry "train" they had going has been derailed and it's going to take writing together for a bit before they get back into the groove of what they used to do.

They've also all gone in totally different directions musically, so all of that is weighing in to what's on the album. Everything emotionally effecting a writer effects what they write. If they got back together and tremonti was feeling cautious about what was going to happen, it would effect his writing. If stapp had something going on in a similar way then it would effect his writing. It's just all speculative and hard to say what the actual reason is.

If, for the sake of argument, things never went bad between the members of creed and they kept on going for the last 6 years, the album would be totally different because they wouldn't have cut off that chemistry they had and had to try to rekindle it.