Cracking The Code With ROBERT PATRICK From FILTER

Interview by Kris Peters
Ever since leaving Nine Inch Nails to form Filter back in 1993, the
name Richard Patrick has been synonymous with industrial tinged
rock.
With their debut album Short Bus spawning the hugely successful
single Hey Man Nice Shot, Filter's trajectory started on the up and
has only soared higher over the ensuing years.
Despite having to overcome potentially crippling personal problems
along the way, Patrick has managed to constantly maintain the rage
musically. He flirted briefly playing alongside Dean and Robert
DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots and Ray Luzier of Korn in the project
Army Of Anyone, but after a triumphant return to Filter with 2008s
Anthem For The Damned Patrick rekindled his love affair with music
and the band that gave him life.
After a seven year wait, Filter is set to return once more with The
Algorithm on August 25, bringing Filter into the modern music era
while still endorsing the band's signature sound.
HEAVY caught up with Patrick to find out more.
"I am really psyched," he enthused of The Algorithm. "I think it's
definitely a great body of work and I'm excited. It reminds me of
the old days, like Title Of Record, that era, and I'm super pumped
and can't wait to hear the reaction from the fans."
We ask him to dive deeper into the album musically.
"Well, I love working with new artists when working on Filter
records," he began. "I love working with Sam Tinnezs and Zack
Munowitz and my bandmates Johnny Radtke, Elias Mallin and Bobby
Miller, and it's... it was really fun because I wanted to make
something that was really agro and crazy, but something that also
had hooks. Something that you could walk away with and hum to
yourself, and I think we did that."
In the full interview, Patrick talks more about what to expect on
The Algorithm, the singles released and how they represent the
album, the album title and where it comes from, developing the
album musically, his guest artists and what they brought to the
table, the early days of Filter, how his vision for the band has
changed over the years, their 30th anniversary and reflecting on
his achievements, his upcoming tour with Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper
and Ministry and more.