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Patrick spent two and a half years as the touring guitarist in NIN and can be seen in the videos for "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]," "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]," "[[Wish]]," and "[[Gave Up]]." His only recorded contribution—a droning guitar sound—can be heard at the end of "[[Sanctified]]" on ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].'' He chose to leave the band during the recording of ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in 1993 due in part to [[Trent Reznor]] not allowing him any creative input or musical contributions, as well as often physically abusing Patrick on stagetaking a lot of onstage physical abuse from Reznor.

Patrick went on to form his own industrial rock band, [[Filter]], with [[Brian Liesegang]] and have released three albums: ''Short Bus'' (1995), ''Title of Record'' (1999), and ''The AmalgamatAmalgamut'' (2002).

==Trivia=Filter===*Richard Patrick is the brother of actor Robert Patrick, who is famous for his roles in ''Terminator 2: Judgment DayShort Bus'' and (1995)*''The X-Files.Title Of Record'' Robert Patrick can be seen wearing a Nine Inch Nails jacket in some interviews for (1999)*''Terminator 2.The Amalgamut''(2002) *The song "Captain Bligh" was written about Reznor's notoriously anti-social habits by Patrick after he left Nine Inch Nails.===Army Of Anyone===*Patrick was part of the supergroup [[The Damning Well]], featuring ex-NIN bassist [[Danny Lohner]], which has only released one track on the ''UnderworldArmy Of Anyone'' movie soundtrack in 2003 (also produced by Lohner2006), despite an entire album's worth of recording.