– Could twenty first, 2025 –
“Amen” Full-Size To See Launch September nineteenth On Metallic Blade Data
Photograph by Ophélie Legriffon
“Blastbeat Falafel” is the newest single from IGORRR. The observe comes by means of the band’s gorgeous fifth album, Amen, set for launch on September nineteenth by way of Metallic Blade Data.
French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been working below the title IGORRR for twenty years now, but every new document nonetheless resounds with a startling freshness and radical vitality. IGORRR‘s “Blastbeat Falafel” options visitor appearances by Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) And Timba Harris (Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3). Spruance’s important band, Mr. Bungle has lengthy been a savvy comparability for IGORRR‘s ethos of tightly managed musical anarchy and gleeful boundary-smashing depth, the Californian loons one other motivating power for the younger Gautier. Like Mr. Bungle, IGORRR stubbornly repels the kind of generic pigeonholing that sure media and followers like to bask in.
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On “Blastbeat Falafel,” Gautier additional elaborates, “The observe is an unnatural and unorthodox connection between metallic and conventional oriental music. A metalhead who really loves oriental music tried to slot in with the codes of oriental music however didn’t succeed. He tried too laborious, misplaced his id, and ended up in a psychiatric hospital.”
Watch IGORRR‘s “Blastbeat Falafel” video HERE.
Watch IGORRR‘s beforehand launched video for “ADHD” HERE.
Keep tuned for more information on Amen to be unveiled within the coming weeks.
Amen Observe Itemizing:
01. Daemoni
02. Headbutt
03. Limbo
04. Blastbeat Falafel
05. ADHD
06. 2020
07. Mustard Mucous
08. Infestis
09. Historical Solar
10. Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
11. Étude n°120
12. Silence
IGORRR Reside w/ Grasp Boot Report, Imperial Triumphant:
10/01/2025 Le Rocher de Palmer – Bordeaux, FR
10/02/2025 Le Bikini – Toulouse, FR
10/03/2025 Santana 27 – Bilbao, ES
10/04/2025 Apollo 1 – Barcelona, ES
10/05/2025 La Riviera – Madrid, ES
10/07/2025 L’Usine – Istres, FR
10/08/2025 Les Docks – Lausanne, CH
10/09/2025 Batschkapp – Frankfurt, DE
10/10/2025 Soulcrusher Competition – Nijmegen, NL
10/11/2025 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE
10/12/2025 Reside Music Corridor – Cologne, DE
10/14/2025 Markthalle – Hamburg, DE
10/15/2025 Nancy Jazz Pulsation – Nancy, FR
10/16/2025 Le Transbordeur – Lyon, FR
10/17/2025 L’Olympia – Paris, FR
10/19/2025 Stereolux – Nantes, FR
10/21/2025 Prospect Constructing Crane – Bristol, UK
10/22/2025 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London, UK
10/23/2025 O2 Ritz – Manchester, UK
Extra on IGORRR’s Amen:
Since signing to Metallic Blade in 2017, the IGORRR title has expanded from one man’s pseudonym to develop into a full group id, however Gautier stays the challenge’s guiding gentle and mastermind. Steadfastly unclassifiable, Amen blindsides its listeners with a brand new set of exploratory curveballs and continues to shock and unnerve even essentially the most attuned fanatic. “This album is certainly darker than its predecessors, it has such a really weighty and solemn vibe that has by no means been reached earlier than in IGORRR,” explains Gautier. “The truth that I recorded an actual choir in a church helped this rather a lot, however above all there was very lengthy and meticulous work on the sound and the selection of devices, and deep experimental analysis to create a singular sound design. In fact, as a result of it’s an IGORRR album, there are some extra colourful tracks, like ‘Blastbeat Falafel,’ ‘ADHD’ and so forth… They distinction very a lot with the ambient heaviness. I would like tracks like these on an album, it helps to actually get by means of it totally targeted, like a shot of limoncello earlier than the subsequent meal.”
With an urge to repeatedly take IGORRR‘s multifaceted and difficult sound additional ahead with every launch, Gautier has spent plenty of time cultivating a number of new modes and strategies of working since 2020′s breathtaking, critically acclaimed opus Spirituality And Distortion, which even reached quantity twelve on the official German album chart. Gautier has all the time made clear that IGORRR is as a lot in regards to the affect of Bach and Chopin as it’s about Cannibal Corpse, Aphex Twin, and Meshuggah, however the supply of particular stimuli will get more durable to determine as the method is refined.
“It’s all the time troublesome for me to know from the place the inspiration comes,” he muses. “Music is an expression of life, and every part, even what appears essentially the most insignificant factor, is usually a supply of inspiration. I’d say there hasn’t been one occasion or one expertise that has led me on a artistic course of, it’s extra like a cumulation of every part. I really like making music. My mind processes music on a regular basis. You can not think about the quantity of albums and concertos I create throughout my sleep. The problem is extra methods to type these concepts to maintain those with the very best potential, those that I gained’t get tired of, those that I actually Love, with a giant letter L.”
IGORRR:
Gautier Serre – machines
Jb Le Bail – vocals
Marthe Alexandre – vocals
Remi Serafino – drums
Martyn Clément – guitars
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