![]() Now 20 years sober and more focused than ever, Patrick is in the middle of recording a much-anticipated new Filter album (set to release in 2023 on Golden Robot Records). Patrick refocused on Filter, releasing Anthems for the Damnedin 2008, The Trouble with Angels in 2010, The Sun Comes Out Tonight in 2013 and Crazy Eyes in 2016, and two singles in 2020. The album still spawned such classic songs as “Where Do We Go from Here” and “American Cliché.”Īfter rehab in 2006, the Army of Anyone project – a supergroup led by Patrick with Dean and Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots and Ray Luzier of Korn – came to light, releasing one album and a tour before each went back to their respective bands. Patrick played with the band from 1989-1993, appearing in numerous music videos including “Down in It,” “Head Like a Hole, “Wish” and “Gave Up.”įilter was formed in Cleveland, OH in 1993 when Patrick left Nine Inch Nails.įilter’s debut album Short Buswas released in 1995 and went platinum, largely due to the success of their first single “Hey Man Nice Shot.” The follow up, 1999’s Title of Record, also went platinum driven by the huge crossover success of the song “Take a Picture.”įilter’s third album, The Amalgamut, was released in 2002, though sales stalled when Patrick checked into rehab after years of heavy alcohol and drug abuse just as touring and promotion began for the album. The two became close friends and then bandmates. Patrick had met NIN’s founder Trent Reznor in the late ‘80s in a music store in Cleveland. Patrick’s initial foray into the public eye was as Nine Inch Nails’ first touring guitarist. When you can take a song from 1995 and not only make it relevant in 2020 but make it better than the original, that’s saying something!įor more info on Them Fixes, please visit them on Facebook.Richard Patrick’s career is a vision of multifaceted creativity, which he has delivered throughout his 30+ years producing music professionally through his band Filter, various collaborations, side projects, super groups, scoring films and writing for soundtracks. In just a few short years, Them Fixes have been well on their way to becoming one of hard rock’s most promising young acts. ![]() By the time the chorus hits, it no longer sounds like someone channeling their best Trent Reznor, it’s someone who means every word. Some of the 90s ‘xtreme dood’ energy has been replaced with poise and focus. ![]() However, with the modern advances in technology, the urgency has been heightened and the all-around intensity kicked up a few levels. The bass is still gnarly, the verses brooding, and the intensity is catastrophic. Produced by George Pauley of The By Gods and mastered by Dan Shikes, (who has worked with 50Thirdand3rd’s favorite Transylvania Stud) Them Fixes’ is a modern take with minimal changes to the arrangement. On this go around, the Nashville twosome offers up their take of “Hey Man Nice Shot”. I’ve covered releases from Them Fixes here at 50Thirdand3rd in the past and it feels like I’ve watched this band grow with each track they put out. Enter one of my current favorite rock acts, Them Fixes. But where Filter might not be burning up the charts or headlining festivals, their music can live on. It’s very…90s.įast forward to 2020 and just about every fad from yesteryear has made a comeback in some compacity. Regardless of how you feel about Filter or that song, it doesn’t hold up well these days. But all things must come to an end and once simplified industrials jams were replaced with simplified metal riffs of nu-metal, acts like Filter were left behind. The lyrical content about the public suicide of Pennsylvania of Budd Dwyer coupled with a mechanical-esque pulsing bass riff, “Hey Man Nice Shot” became the band’s signature song. Their breakout single was “Hey Man Nice Shot” in 1995. Knowing all the bells and whistles Reznor utilized, Patrick was able to make Filter a more guitar-driven version of Nine Inch Nails. How 90’s is that?) went out on his own and formed Filter. As part of Nine Inch Nail’s touring band, Richard Patrick (brother of Terminator 2’s Robert Patrick. But at the very least Nine Inch Nails being 90s darlings allowed for other acts to get in on the action. The big mainstream industrial act was Nine Inch Nails and if we’re being honest, anything good from Trent Reznor was done by Al Jourgensen a decade before. That was in 1993 and pretty much the golden age for industrial bands. I was introduced to Ministry at ten years old and they instantly became one of my favorite bands.
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