Editing Weathered (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r560790|title=Weathered|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Cross Rhythms]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|10|10}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cummings|first=Tony|title=Creed - Weathered|journal=Cross Rhythms Magazine|date=January 15, 2002|issue= 67|url=https://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Creed/Weathered/4165/|access-date=January 25, 2023|author-link=Tony Cummings|publisher=[[Cross Rhythms]]|format=online}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' 
| rev3Score = C−<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2001/12/07/weathered-2/|date=December 7, 2001|title=Weathered|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev4Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=theguardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/dec/14/shopping.artsfeatures2 |title=More frills, please |last=Sullivan |first=Caroline |date=December 14, 2001 |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 18, 2021}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|8|10}}<ref name=rockhard>{{cite web|last=Kupfer|first=Thomas|title=Rock Hard|url=https://rockhard.de/reviews/creed-weathered_269907.html|work=issue 176|access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref> 
| rev6      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="rs">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/107185/review/5946743/weathered|title=Weathered : Creed : Review|last=Hunter|first=James|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=January 2, 2002|access-date=April 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224033404/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/107185/review/5946743/weathered|archive-date=February 24, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7      = ''[[Slant Magazine]]''
| rev7Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=slant>{{cite news|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/creed-weathered|work=Slant Magazine|title=Creed: Weathered: Music: Slant Magazine|date=November 19, 2001|access-date=October 28, 2009|author=Cinquemani, Sal}}</ref>
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The album received mixed reviews, with some critics feeling that the album lacked creativity and liveliness, labeling ''Weathered'' as being "unimaginative", "predictable" and too serious and pretentious. [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] wrote in his 2 out of 5 star review that: "Their hearts are in the right place -- let it never be said that they're only in this for the money or the fame; they even advertise Stapp's With Arms Wide Open Foundation charity in the liner notes -- but the earnestness in their approach is magnified by their resolutely unimaginative neo-grunge." Although he praises the band's more experimental efforts noting the Cherokee Indian prayer on "Who's Got My Back" and bringing in the Tallahassee Boys' Choir for "Don't' Stop Dancing", he felt Creed had failed to break from their template and that the album was "simply another Creed record."<ref name="allmusic"/> ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' also gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, with reviewer Sal Cinquemani praising the track "Bullets", but felt many songs including "My Sacrifice", "Freedom Fighter" and "Lullaby" were overly self-righteous and that "the song's message gets lost in the same hollow pit of obscurity as the band's previously uplifting efforts." He also praised the song "Who's Got My Back", but states that the song predictably trumpets into typical testosterone-rock.<ref name=slant/>

Some reviewers were more receptive to the album, commending the band's restrained, and morose approach as well as the nuance of the album. James Hunter of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album 3 and half stars out of 5, citing tracks such as "My Sacrifice", "Who's Got My Back" and "Stand Here With Me" as album highlights. He writes: "Weathered is rock of unusual focus and arrest, a beautifully distressed dance of sustained style and unapologetic emotion."<ref name="rs"/> Caroline Sullivan of ''[[The Guardian]]'' gave the album 3 out of 5 stars. She notes that although the album's lack of levity begins to take its toll over the course of the record, ''Weathered'' is still worth listening to "for those who want a dose of spirituality with their nu metal."<ref name=theguardian/> In his 8 out of 10 star review of the album, Thomas Kupfer of ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]'' states: "The new album proves once again that Creed doesn't work according to the truisms of big business. As with its predecessors, the production was carried out under the guidance of producer John Kurzweg and the original sound was only refined with nuances." He asserts that the title track is the band's "most compact performance of the trio to date", as well as praising some of the calmer moments on the album including "Who's Got My Back".<ref name=rockhard/>