In a new interview with Kevin McKay of Florida’s 99Rock WKSM radio station, FILTER leader Richard Patrick was asked if he has commenced work on the follow-up to 2023’s “The Algorithm” album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, there’s a brand new [FILTER] record [coming]. I was literally just singing on it when I realized my phone alarm didn’t go off [to remind me about this interview]. [But] it’s all good. I needed a break.”Asked if he knows what he is going to call the new FILTER album, Richard said: “Yeah, we’re gonna call it ‘The Antidote’.”As for a possible release date for “The Antidote”, Patrick said: “I’m hoping this fall, but it might be spring next year. We’re not sure.”Richard recently wrote a song called “The Gunslingers Of Redemption” and composed all the music for writer-director Brian Skiba’s just-released western “Gunslingers”.Richard Patrick had previously composed soundtracks for several films, including “Dark Crimes” (2016) and “Last Rampage” (2017). He also contributed to the soundtrack for “The Last Rampage” with his brother, Robert Patrick. In addition, he has composed music for TV series like “Comedy Kitchen”.”The Algorithm” came out in August 2023 via Golden Robot Records. At the time, Richard told Detroit’s WRIF radio station that FILTER fans would “like the heaviness” of the album. “I love music that makes me just wanna get up and run or drive a car really fast or something like that. But I think people, they’re gonna feel like the way they did during ‘The Amalgamut’ or ‘Title Of Record’ or ‘Short Bus’. It reminds me of the first three records that we did on Warner Brothers. And those are definitely some great years. So it kind of reminds me of that. ‘Cause I took a real heavy hand in production — I really, really, really made sure that I was happy before anybody. For the past 10 years, I’ve really relied on producers and songwriters and stuff like that, which I love, I love working with them, but this year I bought a computer and I sat there and recorded everything on my own with the exception of two or maybe five songs where I asked for outside collaboration… I really did apply myself and I made sure that it sounded like old-school FILTER.”Asked if the throwback to old-school FILTER was intentional or if it just turned out that way, Richard said: “I think it just naturally kind of went that way. ‘Cause I’m not a big planner of what I’m gonna do. I don’t navigate through, like, ‘Oh, it’s getting too much like this’ or ‘It’s getting too much like that. Stay on target, stay with the plan.’ I try and go with the flow on the record and see what it wants to be. And then when I’m done, [I] come up with the title and the visuals and everything like that.”In June 2023, Patrick told Michael Presti of the 99WNRR radio station that “The Algorithm” reminded him of FILTER’s third album, 2002’s “The Amalgamut”. “It’s kind of a little bit of a return to ‘The Amalgamut’,” he said. “It’s so bombastic. There’s so many bangers on this record. And ‘The Algorithm’, it’s a little bit more a part of the times.”Regarding the lyrical inspiration for “The Algorithm”, which previously had the working title “They Got Us Right Where They Want Us, At Each Other’s Throats”, Richard said: “I’m still bitching, but I’m not as outwardly bitching; I’m not taking sides as much on this record. I’m bitching and I’m talking about liars and cheaters and thieves. It’s just that I’m not literally calling everybody out, like I did on the other two songs that came out [in 2020],” referencing “Murica” and “Thoughts And Prayers”.Originally conceived in 2018 as a collaboration between Patrick and fellow FILTER founding member Brian Liesegang, “The Algorithm” was given a tentative title, “ReBus”, as a nod to FILTER’s 1995 debut, “Short Bus”, before being changed to “They Got Us Right Where They Want Us, At Each Other’s Throats” and later to “Murica” and then back to “They Got Us Right Where They Want Us, At Each Other’s Throats” and eventually “The Algorithm”.Photo credit: Chapman Baehler
