Born from Richard Patrick’s departure as Nine Inch Nails’ touring guitarist, Short Bus arrived in 1995 as a furious, personal answer to Trent Reznor. Built almost in tandem with Brian Liesegang, the record marries industrial fury, abrasive guitars and surprisingly memorable melodies. Patrick sings of anger, alienation and emptiness with raw, exposed intensity.

Hey Man Nice Shot, inspired by the public suicide of politician Budd Dwyer, became its uneasy anthem and biggest hit, often wrongly read as a screed about Kurt Cobain. Around it, Dose and Under alternate brutality with introspection. Short Bus remains a milestone of 1990s industrial rock, more organic and rock-driven than its models, and the work that lastingly defined Filter’s identity.