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Brace Yourself: IGORRR’s Amen Arrives September 19, 'ADHD' Single Out Now
- The Curator
- Apr 4
- 4 min read
IGORRR Unveil Amen: A Genre-Smashing Odyssey Arrives September 19
For two relentless decades, French sonic anarchist Gautier Serre — better known as IGORRR — has been bending genres like spoons at a psychic fair. And just when you think you’ve figured out his formula, he tears up the blueprint. His fifth studio beast, Amen, is set to detonate on September 19th via Metal Blade Records, and it’s anything but a safe play. Packed with left-hooks of sound that’ll rattle even the most battle-hardened audiophile, this record keeps IGORRR’s freak-flag flying high, hurling curveballs that hit like sonic molotovs. Expect to be surprised. Expect to be unnerved. Mostly, expect the unexpected.
Since hitching his sonic circus to the Metal Blade wagon back in 2017, IGORRR has morphed from a one-man mind warp into a full-blown collective of chaos. But make no mistake — Gautier Serre is still the mad scientist behind the mayhem, the puppet master pulling every glorious, unpredictable string. If anyone can attempt to explain this beautiful monstrosity, it’s the man who dreamt it into existence in the first place.
"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."
Gautier Serre isn’t the type to sit still and ride the wave of past glories. Since the jaw-dropping madness of Spirituality And Distortion dropped jaws (and somehow clawed its way to #12 on the German charts), he’s been hellbent on pushing IGORRR’s sonic Frankenstein even further into uncharted territory. Between 2020 and now, he’s been brewing fresh methods and warping new modes of madness in the lab. Sure, he’s always worn his influences on his sleeve — a head-spinning cocktail of Bach, Chopin, Cannibal Corpse, Aphex Twin, and Meshuggah — but these days? The lines are so blurred, you’d need a forensic analyst to pick apart the origins. And honestly, that’s exactly how he likes it.
"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."
In anticipation of the upcoming release of Amen, today IGORRR unveils the record’s first single, “ADHD,” alongside an accompanying video.
“‘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.” Gautier continues, “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.”
Adds Meat Dept, a creative duo known for their unique style of hyper-realistic CG animations, “After ‘Very Noise,’ we explored the possibilities of AI for this new IGORRR music video, ‘ADHD.’ We embraced almost all existing tools, both proprietary and open source, diverting and mixing them with our 3D tools. This video is a symbolic journey into an experimental therapy for treating a patient with ADHD, brimming with nods to ‘Very Noise.’ The ambition was to push further into the ‘mental cringe,’ with an aesthetic that blends 1960s James Bond and the ineffable charm of the Fantômas universe. We pushed the discomfort dial even further into a pleasurable realm, and we hope the audience will watch the video on repeat, like an addictive treat.”
Amen Track Listing:
Daemoni
Headbutt
Limbo
Blastbeat Falafel
ADHD
2020
Mustard Mucous
Infestis
Ancient Sun
Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
Étude n°120
Silence
IGORRR "Amen" Album Art:
IGORRR is:
Gautier Serre – machines
Jb Le Bail – vocals
Marthe Alexandre – vocals
Remi Serafino – drums
Martyn Clément – guitars