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🎧🎶 IGORRR Unveils “Blastbeat Falafel” Video / Single Featuring Trey Spruance and Timba Harris – “Amen” Full-Length Arrives September 19th! 🎧

IGORRR is set to unleash their latest single, “Blastbeat Falafel,” taken from the band’s stunning fifth album, “Amen,” which will see its release on September 19th via Metal Blade Records. This new track features guest appearances by Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) and Timba Harris (Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3).

Watch IGORRR’s “Blastbeat Falafel” video HERE

French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the moniker IGORRR for two decades, yet each new record still resonates with a startling freshness and radical vitality. Mr. Bungle, Spruance’s main band, has long been a savvy comparison for IGORRR’s ethos of tightly controlled musical anarchy and gleeful boundary-smashing intensity, serving as another motivating force for the young Gautier. Like Mr. Bungle, IGORRR stubbornly repels the sort of generic pigeonholing that certain media and fans love to indulge in.

On “Blastbeat Falafel,” Gautier further elaborates, “The track is an unnatural and unorthodox connection between metal and traditional oriental music. A metalhead who truly loves oriental music tried to fit in with the codes of oriental music but didn’t succeed. He tried too hard, lost his identity, and ended up in a psychiatric hospital.”

Watch IGORRR’s previously released video for “ADHD” HERE

Stay tuned for more info on “Amen” to be unveiled in the coming weeks.

“Amen” Track Listing:

  1. Daemoni
  2. Headbutt
  3. Limbo
  4. Blastbeat Falafel
  5. ADHD
  6. 2020
  7. Mustard Mucous
  8. Infestis
  9. Ancient Sun
  10. Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
  11. Étude n°120
  12. Silence

Photo by Ophélie Legriffon / Artwork by Adrian Baxter

IGORRR Live w/ Master Boot Record, 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 Festival – Nijmegen, NL
  • 10/11/2025 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE
  • 10/12/2025 Live Music Hall – 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 Building Crane – Bristol, UK
  • 10/22/2025 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London, UK
  • 10/23/2025 O2 Ritz – Manchester, UK

More on IGORRR’s Amen:

Since signing to Metal Blade in 2017, the IGORRR name has expanded from one man’s pseudonym to become a full group identity, but Gautier remains the project’s guiding light and mastermind. Steadfastly unclassifiable, “Amen” blindsides its listeners with a new set of exploratory curveballs and continues to surprise and unnerve even the most attuned enthusiast. “This album is definitely darker than its predecessors, it has such a very weighty and solemn vibe that has never been reached before in IGORRR,” explains Gautier. “The fact that I recorded a real choir in a church helped this a lot, but above all there has been very long and meticulous work on the sound and the choice of instruments, and deep experimental research to create a unique sound design. Of course, because it’s an IGORRR album, there are some more colorful tracks, like ‘Blastbeat Falafel,’ ‘ADHD’ etc… They contrast very much with the ambient heaviness. I need tracks like these on an album, it helps to really get through it fully focused, like a shot of limoncello before the next meal.”

With an urge to continually take IGORRR’s multifaceted and challenging sound further forward with each release, Gautier has spent a lot of time cultivating multiple new modes and methods of working since 2020’s breathtaking, critically acclaimed opus Spirituality And Distortion, which even reached number twelve on the official German album chart. Gautier has always made clear that IGORRR is as much about the influence of Bach and Chopin as it is about Cannibal Corpse, Aphex Twin, and Meshuggah, but the source of specific stimuli gets harder to ascertain as the process is refined.

“It’s always difficult for me to know from where the inspiration comes,” he muses. “Music is an expression of life, and everything, even what seems the most insignificant thing, can be a source of inspiration. I would say there hasn’t been one event or one experience that has led me on a creative process, it’s more like a cumulation of everything. I love making music. My brain processes music all the time. You cannot imagine the amount of albums and concertos I create during my sleep. The challenge is more how to sort these ideas to keep the ones with the best potential, the ones that I won’t get bored of, the ones that I really Love, with a big letter L.”

IGORRR is:

Gautier Serre – machines
Jb Le Bail – vocals
Marthe Alexandre – vocals
Remi Serafino – drums
Martyn Clément – guitars

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🧠 IGORRR Unveils Amen – New Album Drops September 19 via Metal Blade Records 💀

French sonic chaos-conductor Gautier Serre, better known as IGORRR, is set to release his fifth full-length album Amen on September 19th via Metal Blade Records. As always, IGORRR defies genre, logic, and expectations, weaving together breakcore, baroque, metal, and absurdism into something that sounds like nothing—and everything—all at once.
The first single, “ADHD”, arrives with a video that’s as demented as it is mesmerizing. Directed by Meat Dept, the visual journey is part therapy session, part brain meltdown, with an AI-glitched aesthetic that takes cringe into addictive territory.

🎥 Watch “ADHD”
🎧 Pre-save/Pre-order Amen

🎼 A Darker, Heavier IGORRR

“This album is darker and more solemn than anything I’ve done before,” says Serre. “I recorded a real choir in a church, and did deep experimental sound design to create something that truly resonates.”
Despite the somber tone, Amen doesn’t skimp on IGORRR’s trademark absurdity. Tracks like “Blastbeat Falafel” and “ADHD” serve as sonic palate cleansers, injecting manic energy and unpredictability into the album’s bleak weight.
“Those wild tracks are necessary,” Gautier explains. “Like a shot of limoncello between courses.”

🧬 The Mind Behind the Mayhem

Gautier describes his process as a constant stream of subconscious composition. “Music happens even in my sleep,” he says. “I create concertos in my dreams—the challenge is filtering through them to find the ones worth bringing into reality.”
On the new video, he adds: “ADHD is kind of autobiographical. It starts in silence and ends in chaos, like a brain spinning out of control but somehow still standing.”
The video’s collaborators, Meat Dept, also known for IGORRR’s viral “Very Noise,” blended 3D visuals with AI for a surreal, twisted vibe. “We leaned into ‘mental cringe’ with aesthetic influences from James Bond to Fantômas,” they say.

📀 Amen Tracklist

  1. Daemoni
  2. Headbutt
  3. Limbo
  4. Blastbeat Falafel
  5. ADHD
  6. 2020
  7. Mustard Mucous
  8. Infestis
  9. Ancient Sun
  10. Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
  11. Étude n°120
  12. Silence

🎤 IGORRR Live w/ Master Boot Record + Imperial Triumphant

Oct 1 – Bordeaux, FR – Le Rocher de Palmer
Oct 2 – Toulouse, FR – Le Bikini
Oct 3 – Bilbao, ES – Santana 27
Oct 4 – Barcelona, ES – Apollo 1
Oct 5 – Madrid, ES – La Riviera
Oct 7 – Istres, FR – L’Usine
Oct 8 – Lausanne, CH – Les Docks
Oct 9 – Frankfurt, DE – Batschkapp
Oct 10 – Nijmegen, NL – Soulcrusher Festival
Oct 11 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
Oct 12 – Cologne, DE – Live Music Hall
Oct 14 – Hamburg, DE – Markthalle
Oct 15 – Nancy, FR – Nancy Jazz Pulsation
Oct 16 – Lyon, FR – Le Transbordeur
Oct 17 – Paris, FR – L’Olympia
Oct 19 – Nantes, FR – Stereolux
Oct 21 – Bristol, UK – Prospect Building Crane
Oct 22 – London, UK – Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Oct 23 – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz

🎹 IGORRR Lineup

Gautier Serre – machines
Jb Le Bail – vocals
Marthe Alexandre – vocals
Remi Serafino – drums
Martyn Clément – guitars

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