Filter and Saliva

USA Tour featuring Filter and Saliva with special guests Anew Revolution plus Heart-Set Self Destruct 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 20. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Advance tickets go on sale June 3 for $18.00 at The Cotillion, the employee clubs, charge tickets by phone at 316-722-4201 or logon to thecotillion.com.. Tickets on the day of the show will be $20.

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Eclecticism has been a hallmark of Richard Patrick's career in Filter, and it's administered with crushing efficiency on The Trouble With Angels. Fans weaned on the industrial outbursts and corrosive beats of 1995's Short Bus and 1999's Title of Record will be ecstatic to hear Patrick's unmistakable scream and unflinching honesty dominating the new album.

The prolific multi-instrumentalist couches intensely personal narratives in throwback industrial crushers subject to multiple interpretations. On the surface, leadoff single "The Inevitable Relapse" details a shattered man succumbing to addiction, but can be read as a study of love lost, consumption or obsession, depending on your perspective. Not to mention its isolated bass line and thudding chord collapse both conjure and modernize Filter's breakthrough smash, "Hey Man, Nice Shot."

The guessing game continues down Angels' track list. Is the hammering "Absentee Father" about the man upstairs or an unreliable blood relation? Does the fist-pumping "No Love" take a nation addicted to warfare to task, or is it a flagellation of the narrator's own selfishness? Patrick prefers ambiguity, but one thing is obvious: The Trouble With Angels boasts his strongest, most aggressive songwriting yet. "I've heard people say, 'Well, Richard is mellowing with age...' and I was like, really?" he exclaims with characteristic intensity. "Mellow?! You know what? I've been looking for an excuse to tear people's heads off again!"

"The first three songs [on the new record] are for people who are super-pissed and want Short Bus, and then everything after that, it's like w

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