Filter – The Amalgamut

Filter The Amalgamut vinyl marks a genuine first: this is the debut vinyl pressing of Filter’s third studio album, issued by Craft Recordings (catalog CR 636) to celebrate the record’s 20th anniversary.

Filter and The Amalgamut

Filter is the project of Richard Patrick, and by 2002 the band had already built a serious following on the strength of their platinum-selling second album, Title of Record. The Amalgamut arrived as the follow-up to that commercial and critical high point, a record that deepened the band’s industrial-tinged rock sound and delivered fan favorites that have stayed in the rotation of dedicated listeners for two decades. It was a record that rewarded people who stuck with it, and its audience has.

A First-Ever Vinyl Pressing Worth Noting

For twenty years, The Amalgamut existed only in digital and CD formats. That is a long time for a record with this level of dedicated fandom to remain off wax entirely. Craft Recordings corrects that here, pressing the album on LP for the first time and doing so under catalog number CR 636. The anniversary context is not just marketing framing. It means this pressing was produced with deliberate intent, and for collectors who track anniversary releases from labels like Craft, that distinction matters when it comes to production quality and care.

Why This Copy Belongs in Your Collection

If you were a Filter fan in the early 2000s and have spent any time rebuilding your collection on vinyl, you already know this gap. The Amalgamut simply was not available in this format, full stop. This pressing closes that gap for the first time. For anyone building a complete Filter discography on wax, this is the piece that was missing. For collectors who focus on anniversary pressings from established reissue labels, Craft Recordings has a consistent track record and this release fits squarely within their catalog of carefully considered reissues. It is a straightforward case: the album exists on vinyl now, it did not before, and this is the copy to have.