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Cracking The Code With ROBERT PATRICK From FILTER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Richard Patrick. I am the lead singer and guitar sometimes guitar
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  player for the band Filter, and we are releasing a brand new record called
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  The Algorithm and it comes out August twenty five. Yeah, out of for
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  Richard, thanks for joining us today. Thanks for having me, h my
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  pleasures. As you mentioned, Filter returned with your first album in seven years,
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  titled The Algorithm on August twenty fifth. So how you feeled about it?
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  The closer it gets, I am really psyched. I mean, I
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  think it's really a great body of work and I'm I'm excited. It reminds
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  me of the old days, like title of record amalgamat that that era,
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  and I'm super pumped and I can't wait to hear the reaction from the fans.
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  It was liked a dive in a bit deeper about the album musically and
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  what you've gone for with it. Well, I love working with new artists
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  as well. When I work on Filter records, I love working I loved
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  working with Sam Tinnez and Zach Monowitz and my bandmates Johnny Radkey and Elias Mullen
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  and Rotten Bobby and it's uh, it's it's just It was really fun because
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  I wanted to make something that was really agro and crazy, but it's something
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  that also had hooks, you know, something that you could you could walk
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  away with and get hummed to your you know yourself, and uh, yeah,
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  I think we did that. You've released this thing goes up interration for
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  the Baton and feast down, So I would decided decided a good sonic representation
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  of what do you expect? Yeah, but there's always a few curveballs with
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  Filter. There's always going to be a lighter song like take a Picture.
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  There's there's a song called Burnout the Sun, which reminds me of take a
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  Picture, and another song called command Z, which is really kind of just
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  a beautiful, little weird instrumental well not instrumentally, it's very like light and
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  airy, but the subject matter is really heavy and I'm just super proud of
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  it. But yeah, there's gonna be some curveballs on this record. I
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  hope everybody's ready for it. And I noticed that the Algorithm this is one
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  of the subtitles on the album, So where does that name fit in with
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  it? The algorithm is Everybody's got an algorithm, Everybody's got a problem that
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  they need to solve and whether it's you know, whether it's for me.
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  My biggest problem in life was my drinking problem that I had when I was
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  in my thirties and twenties. And you know, I solve that issue every
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  day just by not drinking. And but everybody's got their own fight, and
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  so the algorithm is is the challenge that you face that you can overcome.
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  The press release says that you have given the classic field of sound a modern
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  sonic edge on this album. Right, firstly, do you agree with that?
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  And if you do, how do you how do you the old sound
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  a modern modern edge? I don't know. I mean it was basically I
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  I I you know, I live in the now. You know, I'm
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  I'm I'm I'm inspired by today's you know, music, but not necessarily today's
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  rock music. I'm inspired by like guys like Scar Lord I think he's amazing,
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  or or this EMD artist named rez ari Zz, and I I kind
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  of focus on that more than I do like what's going on with rock,
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  because when I hear rock today, I just think of what I would do,
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  you know what I mean, Like, I don't know if I'd go
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  to that chorus or I don't know if I would do that that that verse,
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  you know what I mean? So I and just you know, a
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  lot of what inspires me as well is the movie scores that I do a
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  lot of. Thus, you got into this album with the said idea of
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  way and wanted the sounding guys, I wanted to take shape more during the
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  creative process. No, it totally took shape in the creative process. Like
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  I literally jumped in feet first and just and just explored and just and just
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  swam around musically and did whatever I wanted to do. There was touch on
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  this before. But you're collaborating with a number of artists, including Zach Metowitz,
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  Sam Sineza, he said, Mark Jackson, and he and Scott said,
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  what was the reason behind bringing so many different people in? I just
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  like to like to I love collaborating with different artists that I think are really
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  cool. You know. I love Sam, He's an amazing lyricist, an
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  amazing melody writer. Zachack Monowitz brings insane guitar parts like for for the Beaten
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  and he did up against the Wall and he did, uh say it again,
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  and uh, you know, I just love working with different artists that
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  that can help me kind of explore where Filter can go. You know,
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  take Filter on a little bit of a journey. Yeah, I you know,
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  I really recommend that to all my fellow artists. Is just you know,
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  shake it up a little bit. You know, they got back in
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  tom of Bit Brian, like you started Filter out the leaving naughtedge styles in
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  ninety ninety three. So what was your early vision for the Bad and how's
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  it? China Suns. The earliest vision was that we would make records that
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  would move people, and and that vision has not changed. You know.
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  I got into this industry because I really just thought I had something to say.
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  And when I left nine H Nails, I I I just promised myself
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  that I was gonna do as as good a job as I possibly could,
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  and and and and make music that really made move people. Yeah, that
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  would like this year thirtieth anniversary Brod Scaring Opsolo, Like, is that sort
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  of given you scout to reflect on the band and your achievements. Yeah,
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  thirty years is a long time, and I it's it's it's I if I
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  if I stop and and and just uh pat myself on the back, I
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  feel like I've I've I've stopped too early, like I for me, you
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  know, music is is a constantly evolving thing, and I don't know.
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  I I'm I'm glad that I've been in it as long as I have,
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  but I feel like I still have a long way to go. And you're
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  off onto This might be Rob Zombie, Alice Scooper and Minister. It should
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  be a hell of a lot of fun. Yes, we are going on
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  tour. It's called the Freaks on Parade Tour and it's Rob Zombie, Alice
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  Cooper, Ministry and Filter and we are really looking forward to it. All
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  the bands are friends. Like I've known Rob for thirty years, I've known
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  al for like forty I've known I've known Alice Cooper for like six years.
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  So everybody's friends and we all just want to have a good time and bring
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  forth the rock and play the hits. You know what I'm saying now,
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  I'm not expecting that line up to make it IV but if you personally gone
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  as far as booking anything for Australia, Australia is going to happen. We
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  are going to announce an Australian tour within the next couple of days, oh
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  with that lineup, or just just yourself, No, just ourselves, just
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  headlining ourselves. Yeah, very cool. All right there, before we go,
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  mate, I've just started a new heavy spot a couple of new heavy
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  Spotify playlists up. So I'm just gonna ask you to give me three of
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  your own songs for each playlist. One song going to get you in the
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  mood to party, one of your songs it'll save your marriage, and one
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  of your songs it could potentially end to marriage. Okay, the first one
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  is the drowning to get the party started. The second one is to save
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  my marriage is burn out the sun. And then to end my marriage,
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  I would probably say something like based down. No, no, no,
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  no, not face down, Say it again, Lay it again, Yeah,
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  say it again. That would be the one that that would be the
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  one that when I would play at the at the end of my wedding marriage
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  because that literally that was written about like the fact that my wife always tells
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  me stuff and I can't hear her, like for some reason, I just
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  don't listen, and and I I'm gonna I'm gonna use that in a song
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  when I when I was listening to the song. We were on a walk
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  and she was talking to me and I was like, say it again.
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  I'm sorry I wasn't listening and she's so that's what I would sing it for
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  the end of our marriage, if I hope that never happens. Beautiful,
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  Richard All, Well, thanks very much for each toad that I made.
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  It's been a pleasure of The Algorithm is out August twenty fifth, and she
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  has a Buddy good album made. I listened to it before the interview and
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  well done. And she's a cracker. So and we'll see you over here.
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  When you announced you to OW, I guess yes you got it,
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  and absolutely thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it,
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  and I'm really looking forward to coming out and supplying some rock