Filter‘s Richard Patrick is not interested in making things comfortable for you.
Filter’s singer is stepping into new territory with his new project, A Place To Kill. Expect industrial trap metal with singer Jim Louvau. And this isn’t a side experiment. It’s a deliberate shift into something heavier, sharper, and harder to ignore.
“Jim is a famous photographer. But Jim Louvau has this amazing scream, this ability to just scream his butt off,” Patrick said in an interview with Donny Fandango of 105.7 The Point. “It’s industrial… It’s like dubstep, but deathstep, is what we’re calling it. It’s super heavy and just amazing. And I’d love it if it ever got on the radio, but I kind of doubt it, ’cause it’s just really over-the-top industrial.”
The project first surfaced in early 2023 with “The Killing Field,” released as the B-side to Filter’s “For The Beaten” limited vinyl.
Patrick isn’t front and centre on the mic this time.
“I sing a little. But Jim is the main singer. I’m kind of the musician. I came up with all the music and everything. I let him do the screaming.”
And Louvau delivers exactly what the project demands.
Patrick calls him “the jet engine of ‘fuck you.’”
A Place To Kill is set to arrive as an EP, likely in early June ’26.
“This is absolutely music for fast driving and destroying a television set, and craziness and anger. It’s the angriest thing I’ve ever done. You’d think that I’d mellow with age or something, but I’m not mellowing. I’m getting more and more bitter and crazy and harder. It’s… in-your-face industrial music for the apocalypse, basically. It’s all inspired by the recent political events of the United States and the craziness that’s going on… It’s inspired by just the nuttiness of this world.”
Meanwhile, Filter isn’t slowing down. A new album called The Antidote is currently in progress, with 16 or 17 songs already recorded.
“We’re gonna chop it down to, like, 12 and then release those extra tracks later, maybe as an EP… It’s probably gonna come out this fall, hopefully.”
From the song above, Is A Place To Kill the rawest version of Richard Patrick we’ve ever heard?
