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The Trouble with Angels is the fifth studio album by American band Filter. It was released on August 17, 2010 through Rocket Science Ventures in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe. The first single from the album, "The Inevitable Relapse", was released for free on the band's official website on May 26, 2010. The album debuted at number 64 on Billboard's Top 200, selling 6,300 copies.

Filter started working on a fifth album shortly after the release of the remix and greatest hits albums, with Bob Marlette as a producer. The album, as said by Richard Patrick, would be a lot heavier than Anthems for the Damned and is to have a song written for The Amalgamut on it. In an interview for the album, Patrick confirmed that song to be "Drug Boy". He also stated he would be moving away from the political lyrical content present in Anthems for the Damned. When asked about the direction of the music style in an interview with Suicide Girls on September 13, 2008, Patrick said, "...is actually way more heavy industrial, more electronic. There’s probably not going to be that many live drums on it."

Through the end of 2009 and into 2010, Filter released a series of fourteen studio updates chronicling the progress made on the album. Each update touched on a certain part of the album process, such as "recording guitar parts" or "mixing the album". The last studio updates confirmed that the album recording had been completed.

The official track listing was later announced. The album features an alternative version of "Fades Like a Photograph", a song that had previously been released in 2009 for the 2012 movie soundtrack. The track now has the added appendix of (Dead Angel) and could be considered a remix of the original.

During this recording of the album, various interviews and studio updates mentioned a number of other song titles. "My Life Before" ended up being part of the "Deluxe Edition" of the album. It is unknown if the song titles "Tried to Trust", and "Cutter", were renamed, or if they were left off the album.

Patrick has commented on the meanings and inspirations for a number of the songs he put on the album. The title track, "The Trouble with Angels", actually originates from Patrick's thoughts about Galileo, stating "When Galileo discovered the telescope and he noticed the planets weren't revolving around the earth, they were revolving around the sun, that went against the church and they turned it in to the inquisition imprisoned him. That's the trouble with angels, he was holding back, the church was holding back scientific discoveries because it went against what they were talking about. In life there's a dichotomy to every situation, you would think that angels are good, but for Galileo and the rest of science, not so good."

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