"We don't take vacations," says Filter founder and frontman Richard Patrick, and The Amalgamut, the band's long-awaited third album on Reprise Records, is all the proof anyone could ask for. These dozen fierce and formidable tracks were conceived and executed after two solid years on the road and without so much as a pause to catch their collective breath. "What's the point of chilling out in the Bahamas for a couple of weeks?" Patrick asks.
You start unwinding, you lose your edge. We had a job to do. It was time to get on with it.
