FILTER will release its fifth studio album, "The Trouble With Angels", this August on Rocket Science Ventures. Fans of the band's "Short Bus" and "Title of Record" will be ecstatic to hear Richard Patrick return to his industrial roots.

Rocket Science owner Kevin Day says, "I have known Richard for a good while and have been a fan of his music and the FILTER 'sound' since their first release. 'The Trouble With Angels' is exciting because it's a strong return to the sonically dark jet engine growl that FILTER invented and defined."

Produced by Bob Marlette (BLACK SABBATH, ATREYU, SALIVA), the album's debut single, "The Inevitable Relapse", features thundering chords and an isolated bass line that both conjure and modernize FILTER's signature sound. "People think 'The Inevitable Relapse' is about addiction, consumption, and obsession, but they're wrong," says Richard Patrick. "It's a love song." The single will be impacting Active Rock and Alternative radio June 21.

FILTER will also be releasing a limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single, exclusively for the Record Store Day coalition of stores on July 6, featuring "The Inevitable Relapse" album version and a Rob Patterson 666 re-mix on the B-side.

Richard Patrick has taken "Angels" to the next level both lyrically and musically, employing some of the best in the business for the upcoming tour. The live band features Patrick on vocals and guitar, guitarist Rob Patterson (KORN, OTEP), bassist Phil Buckman and longtime FILTER drummer Mika Fineo.

"The Trouble With Angels" track listing:

01. The Inevitable Relapse
02. Drug Boy
03. Absentee Father
04. No Love
05. Fades Like a Photograph (Dead Angel)
06. Down With Me
07. Catch A Falling Knife
08. The Trouble With Angels
09. Clouds
10. No Re-Entry

@Rocket Raccoon

For one thing, guitars go out of tune for many reasons, not just the bridge. Loose or slightly worn tuners, imprecise tremolo system, binding nut, humidity... I mean the list goes on. I'd have to see how this thing actually works but I would doubt it accounts for everything - the only really foolproof system I could think of would be one that is constantly tuning while you're playing and making micro-adjustments at the source, ie. the tuning peg. But like others have said about this system, that would negate any trem bar use.

You seem to be assuming that a guitar string is of a constant tension and length, so why not just lock it in place and never have to tune again? But that's not the case. Many guitars have tremolo systems, for example, and the whole way they work is by varying the string tension - and in order to do that, they need to "float". How they float varies by guitar, but the point is the bridges on these guitars can't be locked in place without turning them into hard tail guitars.

Even on a hard tail guitar, though, every time you bend a string (and just pressing down is bending a string), you're risking putting your guitar out of tune because that string is going to come back to rest at a slightly different tension than it started out at - it's being pulled over the bridge and nut, and it's not always going to rest exactly the same way. Over a short period of time, that's going to throw your guitar out of tune.

No guitarist has a guitar that they never have to tune. Most guitarists have to re-tune their guitars every few songs during a live set - it's one reason why professionals have a bunch of guitars for each show, so they can rotate them in and out while a roadie re-tunes. (Or if you ever see a singer bantering with the crowd for a long period of time, chances are the guitarist is using that time to tune.)

I'm generally distrustful of new technology when it comes to guitars, so I wouldn't doubt that this system will create more problems than it solves. But going out of tune is a real problem that all guitarists face, regardless of what make or model they play. Some guitars are better at staying in tune than others, but it's only a matter of degree. No guitar stays perfectly in tune forever, and most don't last more than a couple full songs.