Track Listing

1. You Walk Away
2. American Cliche
3. Where Do We Go From Here
4. Columbind
5. The Missing
6. The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)
7. My Long Walk To Jail
8. So I Quit
9. God Damn Me
10. It Can Never Be The Same
11. World Today
12. The 4th

Product Details

• Released on: 2002-07-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
The Amalgamut, the third album from Filter, finds them deep in the process of refining their bleak industrial rock design. Frontman Richard Patrick was part of the touring incarnation of Nine Inch Nails back in the early 1990s, but gave it all up to perform his own brand of mildly controversial schlock-rock. Seven years on, The Amalgamut finds Filter a much slicker beast, polished up with the latest studio tricks and touting a fresh, mainstream-friendly songwriting nous that points the way forward, but never quite delivers in full. You’ve got to respect the way that "American Cliché" and "The Only Way (Is the Wrong Way)" can take carbon-black rage and meld it into chrome-smooth alternative pop songs. The trouble is, all too often, Filter successfully cop the glossy stadium-rock sound and sound-of-the-future production techniques, but forget to throw in the populist hooks to keep anyone interested. "Columind" is rage of the most sterile, impotent kind, while the drippy "The Missing" breaks out the acoustic guitars for a quiet moment that falls dismally flat. Why anyone needs an album like The Amalgamut while similar groups of the calibre of Radiohead and Tool exist is, frankly, something of a mystery. --Louis Pattison

Chronique amazon.fr
Comme beaucoup dans le milieu du metal, Richard Patrick, chanteur, guitariste et âme de Filter, peut être considéré comme musicalement schizophrène. Cette tendance, déjà décelée sur Title Of Record se confirme sur cet Amalgamut. Rien d'alarmant, au contraire : les symptômes sont pour l'auditeur extrêmement plaisants. Ainsi Filter, un instant solidement retranché derrière un mur de riffs lourds et tranchants, un chant guttural, s'évade l'instant ou la plage suivante vers des horizons légers voire aériens. Il en résulte une progression colorée à travers un album chargé en ambiances et changements de tempos. "Where Do We Go From Here", premier single, en est le parfait concentré : en reprenant la recette qui avait fonctionné pour "Take A Picture" sur Title Of Record, Filter marie guitares acoustiques et saturées pour un single imparable, marqué de son sceau déjà. Au stade du troisième album, le groupe a par ailleurs pris de la bouteille : ce qui n'était à l'origine qu'un projet parallèle d'un ancien de Nine Inch Nails semble s'affiner, le son se travailler, tout en s'éloignant des racines à tendance plus indus de Short Bus. Quelle que soit la forme, Richard Patrick semble ne devoir finalement conserver sur le fond qu'un seul principe : la mélodie à tout prix. En douceur "The Missing", à consonance pop "The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)", ou metal (voir notamment "Columind" en référence à la tuerie de Colombine, ou "You Walk Away"). Personne ne s'en plaindra et chacun au contraire pourra trouver dans cet Amalgamut matière à satisfaction, selon son humeur ou ses aspirations. Ce qui est bien, avec les schizophrènes, c'est qu'on ne s'ennuie jamais... --Julien Capraro

Album Description
2002 release, this CD is enhanced with the 'Where Do We Go From Here' video along with the short film 'Plague of a Thousand Deceptions'. Featured tracks include 'Where Do We Go From Here', 'American Cliche' and 'The Only Way' (Is The Wrong Way).

Customer Reviews

Dynamic!
The Amalgamut is a successful combination of the previous stylings of Short Bus and Title of Record. The innovation and heaviness of Short Bus has been combined with the lyrical advances and softer aspects of Title of Record. Richard Patrick has emphasized a new high in contrast and dynamics. Filter's continueing improvement proves that Industrial Rock isn't dead.

Great Industrial and Metal CD
I Love this album "The Amalgamut" with such my favorite songs american cliche and it will never be the same those are my two favorites by them but the whole album is very good i recomend you should by this

God bless Filter
I've been a big filter fan for some time now and I will always be a huge fan of them. This cd is filled with hard and light guitar playing with killer vocals. Richard Patrick is one of my fav. singers. Why? He's got a powerful and edgy voice. When Filter first started out, the music and lyrics were only done by Richard and some other guy. Where did he come before Filter? From Nine Inch Nails. He played guitar in the band but eventually lost interest in it because of having to play with other industrial sounds. So he formed his own band. Filter's style is still the same and hasn't changed. The only thing you'll find different is that the lyrics are alittle more darker than his last two cd's. But it's so worth the money. So buy it and if you haven't got his last two cd's, buy them too. You'll thank me later.