Human Clay is an album by the former American rock band Creed. Human Clay was realesed on September 28, 1999. The album has four singles including "Higher", "With Arms Wide Open", "What If", and "Are You Ready?". The record label is Wind-Up Records. Mark Tremonti, the lead guitarist for Creed, says the cover for Human Clay represents a crossroad which every human finds himself in his life and the man of clay represented our actions, that what we are is up to us, that we lead our own path and make our own destiny. The artwork for was rated a tie with Creed's next album, Weathered, as the "worst album cover(s) in the first hundred years of recorded music" by review site Drop the Anvil. Human Clay is the last Creed album to feature Brian Marshall.