Hey Man! Nice Shot

“ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED” – Release Date:
JUNE 9th 2008 on Pulse Recordings

FILTER is back.

After a five-year hiatus and a successful run with Army of Anyone, RICHARD PATRICK has reclaimed his legacy with FILTER for ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED, out June 9th.

Produced by Josh Abraham (Slayer, 30 Seconds to Mars, Velvet Revolver, Staind, Courtney Love), PATRICK calls ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED his “howl in the night,” a harsh indictment of civilization that doesn’t exclude himself from its vision of a world falling apart.

The album’s first single “Soldiers of Misfortune” will be released later this month. PATRICK describes the soaring anthem--with its U2/Bowie flavor and stacked backdrop of buzzing electric guitars--as a “sardonic anti-war/pro-troops song.” The first-person narrative was inspired by a letter from a FILTER fan, who had enlisted in the Army reserves to get his college tuition paid; in his final year of college, he was shipped off to Iraq where he died from a rocket attack and small arms fire after just a few days of duty.

FILTER recently previewed tracks from ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED alongside such FILTER classics as “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” “Take a Picture” and others when they performed for the troops alongside Disturbed, The Pussycat Dolls and Jessica Simpson at the Operation MySpace show in Kuwait.

ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED features such collaborators as guitarist/songwriter John 5, guitarist Wes Borland and drummer Josh Freese and marks FILTER’s first release in five years since The Amalgamut. Pointed and passionate, the new album traces PATRICK’s own anger and shame with the state of things, from the intense alternative industrial blast of “The Take,” “What’s Next” and “Hatred is Contagious,” the ultimate resignation of “Kill the Day” and “Lie After Lie” to the tentative hope expressed by “Only You” and the ambient soundscape of the closing “Can Stop This.”

The Band will be in Europe this summer making the following appearances:

June
6th Rock Am Park, Nuremburg, Germany
7th Rock Am Ring, Nurberg, Germany
9th Islington Academy, London, England

The European album will have bonus tracks. Full track listing is as follows:

1. Soldiers of Misfortune
2. What's Next
3. The Wake
4. Cold (Anthem For The Damned)
5. Hatred Is Contagious
6. Lie After Lie
7. Kill The Day
8. The Take
9. I Keep Flowers Around
10. In Dreams
11. Only You
12. Can Stop This
13. Soldiers Of Misfortune (Richard Patrick and Timmy The Terror Brade Runna Mix)
14. Kill The Day (Ben Wise Club Mix)
15. The Take (Stormin Norman Mix) (J.O'B.)
16. Soldiers Of Misfortune (Video)

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