Richard Patrick is best known for fronting the multiplatinum rock band Filter, which produced such hits as “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” “Take A Picture,” and the Crystal Method collaboration, “Trip Like I Do,” as well as for being the founding touring guitarist Piggy in legendary industrial band Nine Inch Nails. He is also a member of Army of Anyone, the supergroup comprised of Robert and Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots and Ray Luzier of Korn.
Platinum-selling, post-industrial/alternative rock pioneers, FILTER are set to release their much-anticipated new album, ‘The Algorithm’, on August 25th via Golden Robot Records. The album, their first in seven years, is a tight conceptual statement heralding career-best songwriting from mastermind Richard Patrick and giving the classic Filter sound a modern sonic edge.
ABOUT THE FIRST RELEASE: The July 14th release of the album’s lead single, the speaker-shattering “Obliteration” belies its modest, radio-friendly run time. This is three and a half minutes of existential chaos, pure human angst ground out through power chords, heavy riffs and a soaring, anthemic chorus. It’s not so much a loud-quiet-loud dynamic as a loud-quiet-monstrously loud one. From out of the blocks, Patrick’s vocals are pushed into the red, and from there… things only get heavier.
Patrick exhorts: “Ashes circle the drain / and now it’s all that’s left / all that’s left of me / sink my teeth in the pain / watching the world go numb / and I’m just one step from obliteration.”
And the track ends as it began, with Patrick’s vocals out front laying down the word and singing up a storm. No one claimed this was cheerful subject matter, but if only all post-apocalyptic treatises could be this anthemic and catchy, perhaps end times will be a little more bearable.
Produced by Patrick and long-time collaborator Brian Virtue, “Obliteration” was co-written by Patrick, Sam Tinnesz, and Ian Scott and Mark Jackson (Grandson, Bishop Briggs),
