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Filter Hits The Road For The Damned
The trek kicks off April 24 at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin and will see the band on the road in the U.S. and abroad through early June.
Highlights include stops at the KDGE Edgefest at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas (April 27), Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (May 8), a record release party at Mercury Lounge in New York City (May 13), Masquerade in Atlanta (May 20), Bogart’s in Cincinnati (May 24), 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. (May 29), and Rams Head Live! in Baltimore (June 2).
International dates on Filter’s itinerary include Rock in Park in Nurnburg, Germany (June 6) and Rock am Ring in Nurnburgring, Germany, as well as a show at Islington Academy in London (June 9).
Additional U.S. and European dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
Filter has been on hiatus for the last five years, during which time frontman Richard Patrick enjoyed a successful run with supergroup Army of Anyone featuring Stone Temple Pilots‘ Dean and Robert DeLeo and drummer Ray Luzier.
Patrick said the experience made him long for Filter.
“I’ve always loved collaborating with other people, but the stuff I do on my own is the most fulfilling. It was an amazing experience to be in a group with such talents as Robert, Dean and Ray, but I felt I had some unfinished business with Filter. And I think they understood that. Filter will always be my legacy.”
Anthems is due May 13 on indie label Pulse Recordings – Patrick says, “I’d rather not subject myself to the insanity of the major label system at this point in time” – and was produced by Josh Abraham (Slayer, 30 Seconds to Mars, Velvet Revolver, Staind, Courtney Love).
The album’s first single, “Soldiers of Misfortune, was inspired by a letter from a Filter fan who enlisted in the Army reserves to get his college tuition paid off. 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.