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According ==Career==Patrick has stated that he began working on his own music, and attempted to secure a record deal, during the biography on the official Filter website, Patrick was nicknamed "80s. He briefly met [[Piggy#Meaning|PiggyTrent Reznor]]" during in Cleveland in 1985 when his time with Nine Inch Nails. According band, The Akt, was invited to open for the [[Brian LiesegangExotic Birds]]. They later met again at Pi Keyboards and Audio, where Reznor worked. [https://vwmusicrocks.com/an-interview-with-richard-patrick-of-filter/] He was then briefly in a band called [[Trent ReznorKollaps]] was very upset when Patrick left the band and wrote the song "Piggy" about it shortly thereafter, prior to NIN, which also included Reznor.[https://www.facebookyoutube.com/Filter/photos/a.186150516351/10155799437926352/watch?type=3&permPagev=1SDT4UWJ14s4] After The Filter track Akt disbanded in 1989, Reznor asked him to listen to some of the songs he'd recorded including "Head Like A Hole" and "Captain BlighDown In It" was originally rumored and asked him to be about Reznorbecome the touring guitarist in NIN, but Patrick has since debunked thiswhich he did for two and half years.[https://loudwirevwmusicrocks.com/filteran-interview-with-richard-patrick-wikipediaof-fact-or-fictionfilter/] Though their relationship was semi-acrimonious He can be seen in the past[[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]," "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]], Reznor " "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]," and Patrick are "[[Gave Up]]." His only recorded contribution—a droning guitar sound—can be heard at the end of "[[Sanctified]]" on good terms''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].'' He chose to leave the band during the recording of ''[https://www.spin[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in 1993 due in part to Reznor not allowing him any creative input or musical contributions, as well as often taking a lot of onstage physical abuse from Reznor.com/2019/10/filter-richard-patrick-nine-inch-nails-pretty-hate-machine/]

Patrick was nicknamed "[[Piggy#Meaning|Piggy]]" during his time with Nine Inch Nails. According to [[Brian Liesegang]], Trent Reznor was very upset when Patrick left the band and wrote the song "Piggy" about it shortly thereafter.[https://www.facebook.com/Filter/photos/a.186150516351/10155799437926352/?type=3&permPage=1] The Filter track "Captain Bligh" was originally rumored to be about Reznor, but Patrick has since debunked this.[https://loudwire.com/filter-richard-patrick-wikipedia-fact-or-fiction/] Though their relationship was semi-acrimonious in the past, Reznor and Patrick are on good terms.[https://www.spin.com/2019/10/filter-richard-patrick-nine-inch-nails-pretty-hate-machine/] Patrick made a live guest appearance with NIN in 1996 for [[1996/09/05_New_York,_NY|one date]] of the [[Nights Of Nothing Tour]]. He (along with [[Danny Lohner]], [[Charlie Clouser]] and [[Chris Vrenna]]) also joined NIN onstage for six songs at the [[2022/09/24_Cleveland,_OH|Cleveland show]] of the [[NIN 2022]] tour, one of the songs being a cover of Filter's "[[Hey Man Nice Shot]]". ==Career==Patrick has stated that he began working on his own music, and attempted to secure a record deal, during the 80s. He briefly met Reznor in Cleveland in 1985 when his band, The Akt, was invited to open for the [[Exotic Birds]]. They later met again at Pi Keyboards and Audio, where Reznor worked. [https://vwmusicrocks.com/an-interview-with-richard-patrick-of-filter/] He was then briefly in a band called [[Kollaps]], prior to NIN, which also included Reznor.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDT4UWJ14s4] After The Akt disbanded in 1989, Reznor asked him to listen to some of the songs he'd recorded including "Head Like A Hole" and "Down In It" and asked him to become the touring guitarist in NIN, which he did for two and half years. [https://vwmusicrocks.com/an-interview-with-richard-patrick-of-filter/] He can be seen in the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]," "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]," "[[Wish (song)|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 Reznor not allowing him any creative input or musical contributions, as well as often taking a lot of onstage physical abuse from Reznor.

Patrick went on to form his own industrial rock band, [[Filter]], with fellow NIN collaborator Brian Liesegang, though Liesegang left in 1997. He was later considered by Trent Reznor to contribute to the [[Tapeworm]] project.[http://shoutengine.com/UnderneathItAllANineInchNailsPodcast/episode-05-surprise-an-interview-with-richard-patr-1078] He was briefly a part of [[Related_bands_and_artists#The_Damning_Well|The Damning Well]] alongside other former NIN members Danny Lohner and [[Josh Freese]]. In 2005, with both Filter and Stone Temple Pilots on hiatus, Patrick joined with the DeLeo brothers to form the supergroup band Army of Anyone, and in late 2006 the band released their eponymous album. The band split a year later, and Patrick returned to working on Filter and continued to release albums. Brian Liesegang rejoined Filter in 2018 and, utilizing the PledgeMusic platform, the pair began working on a musical sequel to ''Short Bus'' entitled ''reBus''. This was shelved in the wake of the PledgeMusic bankruptcy, Liesegang left Filter, and Patrick stated that he was working on another new Filter album. It was eventually released as ''The Algorithm'' in 2023 and contained two songs written with Liesegang.

Since 2016, Patrick has been composing film scores alongside his work for Filter. His credits include ''Dark Crimes'' (2016), ''The Last Rampage'' (2017), ''Breathe, Nolan, Breathe'' (2019), ''The 2nd'' (2020), and ''Chariot'' (2022). In 2022, Patrick began a side project with Jim Louvau called A Place To Kill. He has also recently appeared alongside Danny Lohner on the Deadly Apples track "Volatile".