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The Amalgamut is the third studio album by industrial rock band Filter released on July 30, 2002 on Reprise Records. Contrary to their prior two albums, Short Bus and Title of Record, which were both certified platinum, indicating over one million copies sold, The Amalgamut stalled prior to hitting 100,000 copies sold, in part due to frontman Richard Patrick cancelling the album's main tour in order to enter a rehab facility. The album still had two singles release in its promotion, "Where Do We Go from Here" and "American Cliché".

This was the last album to feature band members Geno Lenardo, Frank Cavanagh and Steve Gillis, with Patrick starting up a new band, Army of Anyone upon getting out of rehab. It was the last Filter album to be released until six years later, when Patrick reformed the band, with new members, and released 2008's Anthems for the Damned.

In 1995, Filter found great success with their debut album, the industrial rock Short Bus, which went platinum in the United States, based on the strength of their single "Hey Man, Nice Shot". However, many complications arose upon attempting to create a follow-up in the late 1990s. The first album had written and recorded by the band's two sole members frontman Richard Patrick and band member Brian Liesegang. When the two attempted to record a follow-up, they found they had wanted to take the band in different directions; Liesesgang wanted to go into a more electronic direction, whereas Patrick wanted to pursue a more rock-oriented direction. Liesegang eventually left, leaving Patrick as the sole member of the band. He attempted to create an album by himself with producer Rae Dileo, but after some unsuccessful sessions, Patrick decided he did not want to create an album alone, and proceeded to attempt to recruit Short Bus touring members Geno Lenardo, Frank Cavanaugh, and Matt Walker. Lenardo and Cavanaugh joined up, but Walker had temporarily joined The Smashing Pumpkins, so they recruited a new drummer, Steven Gillis.

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