Richard Patrick

Richard Michael Patrick (born May 10, 1968) is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He is the frontman and only continuous member of the rock band Filter. He is also a founding member of the supergroups Army of Anyone and The Damning Well, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails.

Career

Nine Inch Nails After a chance meeting with Trent Reznor in a Cleveland music store, Patrick landed a gig as touring guitarist in Reznor's live incarnation of Nine Inch Nails from 1989 to 1993. His only recorded contribution can be heard at the end of "Sanctified" on Pretty Hate Machine. Patrick also appeared in the music videos for "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole", "Wish", and one of the two promo videos for "Gave Up" (along with Marilyn Manson), which was filmed in the living room of the infamous house where Sharon Tate was murdered in 1969, as Reznor had leased the house and installed a recording studio in it. Patrick chose to leave the band during the recording of The Downward Spiral in 1993 following a comment from Reznor to "get up off his ass and go write a record" in response to Patrick asking for more money, further suggesting Patrick to work as a delivery driver at a pizzeria.

In September 2022, Patrick joined other past members of Nine Inch Nails onstage for a special performance, playing classic tracks from his time with the band as well as covering his Filter hit, "Hey Man Nice Shot".

Filter Before his departure from Nine Inch Nails, Patrick formed his own band, Filter, with Brian Liesegang, who left the band after the recording of the band's first album, 1995's Short Bus. Four years later, Richard Patrick released Filter's second album, Title of Record, with help from guitarist Geno Lenardo.

Filter's third album, The Amalgamut, was released in 2002, with Patrick canceling most of the supporting tour to check into rehab for alcoholism, a problem that had been plaguing him for years. An experience where he drank on an airplane inspired Filter's hit single "Take a Picture."

After a five-year hiatus, Filter released a fourth record on May 13, 2008, entitled Anthems for the Damned. Patrick did the vocals and the majority of the instrumentation on the album except for the drumming, which was done by Josh Freese. He also worked with Wes Borland and John 5 on a few individual songs.

For the first time in the band's history, the band released an album without a three-to five-year break in between, with their fifth record, The Trouble with Angels, which was released just over two years after Anthems on August 17, 2010. Patrick recorded the album with the Anthems for the Damned touring band, Mikea Fineo, Mitch Marlow, and John Spiker, but recruited a new guitarist (Rob Patterson) and bass player (Phil Buckman) for touring in support of the album.

Patrick returned to the studio in April 2012, to work with producer Bob Marlette and Kill Hannah guitarist, Jonny Radtke, on his next Filter album, under the working title Gurney and the Burning Books. After Filter was signed to Wind-up Records in September 2012, Patrick released his sixth studio album The Sun Comes Out Tonight on June 4, 2013.

In early 2015, Patrick reunited with Ben Grosse, Michael "Blumpy" Tuller, Brian Virtue and former Filter guitarist Brian Liesegang to begin recording Filter's most recent album. After launching a PledgeMusic campaign, Patrick and contributing artists Oumi Kapila, Chris Reeve and Ashley Dzerigian released Filter's seventh studio album Crazy Eyes on April 8, 2016.

In 2018, Patrick reunited with Brian Liesegang to record a followup to Short Bus entitled Rebus, and funded the project using PledgeMusic. The project remains unreleased due to PledgeMusic going bankrupt. Patrick and Liesegang decided to mount a Title of Record 20th anniversary tour in the Fall of 2019, but the tour was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts with deadlines for film scores that Patrick was working on. In lieu of the Rebus release, Patrick instead released a new Filter album with a different lineup of musicians entitled The Algorithm.

On August 1, 2025 Patrick was featured on the release of the single Blue Sky Mystery by the Canadian rock band Finger Eleven. He was also featured in the single's official music video, performing his guest verse. On the week of November 10, 2025 "Blue Sky Mystery" has currently reached the No. 6 position on the Canadian Rock Billboard music charts.

Army of Anyone

While writing songs for Filter's fourth album, Patrick called up the DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots to help him write a song. The result was a song called "A Better Place." Due to the chemistry the trio had while writing the song, they decided to form a supergroup, which became Army of Anyone.

On September 29, 2005, the formation of Army of Anyone was announced. Along with Dean and Robert DeLeo, future drummer for Korn, Ray Luzier, was also added to the line-up.

Army of Anyone's self-titled debut album was released on November 14, 2006. The album's first single, "Goodbye", peaked at number three on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

On May 26, 2007, Army of Anyone played their last concert to date in El Paso, Texas. The band has since been on hiatus.

Film composition Patrick composed the score for Alexandros Avranas's 2016 film Dark Crimes, a crime thriller based on a 2008 David Grann article published in The New Yorker. In 2017, Richard and his brother Robert Patrick contributed to the film score of Last Rampage.

Writing On August 25, 2008, Patrick wrote an editorial, "Talking About War", for HuffPost. He has since started writing a column, called Filtering The Truth, for Suicide Girls. His first post, about politics and religion, was posted on Election Day 2008.

Personal life Patrick grew up in Bay Village, Ohio. His older brother is actor Robert Patrick. His father was a banker. He was inspired from his mother, whom he described as “Southern Belle from Little Rock” but “rebellious” and told him to be different. He desired to become a guitarist and started playing when he was around 7 years old. He graduated from Bay High School in Bay Village, Ohio in 1987.

Patrick and his wife Tina have a daughter, born in 2008, and a son, born in 2009. After years of alcohol and drug abuse issues, he has been sober since September 2002.

Discography

Year Title Artist Notes 1987 "Walking in Circles"/"Looks Like Rain" The Akt 1988 Exhibit C: Ohio's Undercurrent Various "Broken Glass" (The Akt) 1989 Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails End guitar drone on "Sanctified" 1995 Details Sketchy Dessau Additional guitar 2001 Dualesc Dualesc Producer and additional guitar on "Belief"; tracks rereleased on Through the Floods, Not with Them (2002) 2003 Underworld (Music from the Motion Picture) Various "Awakening" (The Damning Well) 2005 Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Veruca Salt Skit vocals 2006 Army of Anyone Army of Anyone Family Values Tour 2006 Various Vocals on "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (Flyleaf) 2009 The Truth Hurts 1985–2000 Dessau Guitar on "Suffer" 2018 Orogenesis Stayte Vocals on "So Quick to Turn" 2022The Phoenix Grey Daze Vocals on "Believe Me" 2023 "The Killing Field" A Place to Kill B-side to "For the Beaten" (Filter) 7′′ single Machine and Bone The Banishment Vocals on "Max Pain" 2024 Rat Wars Ultra Edition Health "Free to Die" 2025 Contrast Julian Gray Vocals on "Out Here" Last Night on Earth Finger Eleven Vocals on "Blue Sky Mystery" Distress Deadly Apples Vocals on "Volatile"

Film Scoring As composer unless otherwise noted. Year Title Notes 2008 Repo! The Genetic Opera Musician: Guitar 2016 Dark Crimes with Tobias Enhus 2017 The Bye Bye Man Guest vocalist on "Train Song" Last Rampage with Tobias Enhus 2018 Edge of Fear 2019 Comedy Kitchen TV series Breathe Nolan, Breathe 2020 The 2nd 2021 Deadly Excursion: Kidnapped From the Beach TV film Marked Short film 2022 Pursuit With David Wurst and Eric Wurst Chariot Starf*cker Disaster at Devil's Jaw With Jeffrey Gold 2023 Protect the HouseDocumentary 2025 Gunslingers