Filter: Short Bus

After working with Nine Inch Nails for a few years, Richard Patrick formed his own industrial metal band, Filter. They come out firing with “Hey Man, Nice Shot.” Great song. Enough so that every other song that sounds like it fails to compare and the ones that don’t sound like it don’t seem to fit. For Filter, the emphasis is on heavy: heavy bass lines, heavy drum beats, and heavy distortion on everything. As far as menacing, loud 90s music goes, Filter is fine, but there’s better stuff out there. The album is obscured by the era’s industrial metal scene.

Rating: * * *