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This Cleveland, Ohio USA-based Industrial Alternative-Rock group, consisting
of ex-Nine Inch Nails Richard Patrick
on vocals & bass+guitar and Brian Liesegang on guitars+keyboards &
drums, started out as a two-man outfit in 1993.
The pair produced, recorded and engineered "Short Bus" between
the summer and fall of 1994; their debut full-length disc was released
on Reprise in 1995 and detuted at #59 on The Billboard 200 chart, it included
the provocative single "Hey Man, Nice Shot", which crashed into
the top 10 of The Modern Rock chart, propelling the album to gold sales
status.
After Liesegang departed in 1997, Patrick began working on Filter's second
release, he recruited guitarist Geno Lenardo, bassist Frank Cavanagh and
drummer Steve Gillis, signed a new deal with Warner Brothers and in August
of 1999 issued "Title Of Record", it peaked at #30 on The Billboard
Top 200 Albums chart and went platinum on the back of the Modern Rock
top 3 smash hit "Take A Picture", this track also stormed The
Billboard's Hot 100 hitting #12 and topped the Dance charts; followed,
"Welcome To The Fold", which rose to #8 on Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart and another Modern Rock top 20 hit, "The Best Things".
The group resurfaced in the summer of 2002 with "The Amalgamut",
the record reached the #32 in U.S. Albums chart and its main single, "Where
Do We Go From Here", peaked at #11 and #12 respectively on Modern
and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, the second single cut, "American
Cliché", made top 40 on Active Rock list.
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