The Amalgamut

The Amalgamut
Studio album by Filter
Released	July 30, 2002
Recorded	2001 - 2002
Genre	Alternative metal, industrial metal, alternative rock
Length	57:35
Label	Reprise
Producer	Ben Grosse & Richard Patrick with Rae DiLeo & Geno Lenardo
Filter chronology
Title of Record (1999) The Amalgamut (2002) Anthems for the Damned (2008)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68%[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Alternative Press	[1]
Blender	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
Q	[1]
Rolling Stone	[5]
Spin	(6/10)[1]

The Amalgamut is the third studio album of industrial rock band Filter released in 2002 by Reprise Records. It includes the hit single "Where Do We Go from Here". Sales of the album stalled at 90,000 copies upon lead singer Richard Patrick entering a rehab facility. The song "The Only Way (Is the Wrong Way)" was used in a Hummer commercial.

This was the last album to feature Geno Lenardo, Frank Cavanagh and Steve Gillis.^[6]

Release and promotion

On the eve of the beginning of the touring in support of the album, Patrick cancelled all tour dates in order to enter drug rehabilitation.^[7]

Track listing

1. "You Walk Away" (Patrick/Lenardo) – 4:36
2. "American Cliché" (Patrick) – 3:37
3. "Where Do We Go from Here" (Patrick/Lenardo) – 5:34
4. "Columind" (Patrick) – 3:36
5. "The Missing" (Patrick) – 4:46
6. "The Only Way (Is the Wrong Way)" (Patrick/Lenardo) – 5:13
7. "My Long Walk to Jail" (Patrick/Lenardo) – 4:07
8. "So I Quit" (Patrick/Lenardo/Cavanagh/Gillis) – 3:23
9. "God Damn Me" (Patrick) – 4:15
10. "It Can Never Be the Same" (Patrick/Lenardo/Cavanagh/Gillis) – 4:32
11. "World Today" (Patrick/DiLeo) – 5:50
12. "The 4th" (Patrick/DiLeo) – 8:07

Chart performance

Album

Singles

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