[Cover photo credit to Ophélie Legriffon]
French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name Igorrr for twenty years now, and has announced his fifth album, Amen, set for release on September 19th, 2025, via Metal Blade Records. The single and video for the track “ADHD” are out now.
Gautier says about the album:
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. 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.
Gautier has spent a lot of time cultivating multiple new modes and methods of working since 2020’s Spirituality And Distortion. 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.
Gautier comments on the new single:
‘ADHD’ is kind of an autobiographical piece of music starting from one point and moving to another, with no clear link except for the person itself. From simple thoughts, symbolized here as simple dots of sound in the silence, to a complex pathological chaos that somehow still stands. It’s getting worse and worse until the final giant lets go. We know the use of AI in art might be polemic right now, plus we with Meat Dept actually started the clip in 3D, like we did for ‘Very Noise,’ but at some point we were laughing so hard trying to do creepy things in AI that the clip ended as a mix of both technologies. The music, however, is 100% homemade.
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
