Next February/March, IGORRR will embark on a North American headlining tour, featuring Melt-Banana and Vowws as support. Dubbed “Spirituality and Distortion North American Tour 2022”, this will be the first stateside trek in support of Igorrr‘s critically acclaimed album, Spirituality And Distortion, released in March 2020.
Igorrr‘s Gautier Serre comments: “This period of Covid has drove us totally insane, but we are excited to finally play this US tour! New show, new music and new people on stage – can’t wait to finally play ‘Spirituality and Distortion’ on stage! This will be a historic time for us.”
Igorrr “Spirituality and Distortion North American Tour 2022” dates w/ Melt-Banana, Vowws Feb. 17, 22 – Brick by Brick – San Diego, CA Feb. 18, 22 – Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ Feb. 19, 22 – Sunshine Theatre – Albuquerque, NM Feb. 21, 22 – Come And Take It Live! – Austin, TX Feb. 22, 22 – Trees – Dallas, TX Feb. 23, 22 – Warehouse Live Studio – Houtson, TX Feb. 25, 22 – The Orpheum – Tampa, FL Feb. 26, 22 – Hell @ The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA Feb. 27, 22 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC Feb. 28, 22 – Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD Mar. 2, 22 – Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY Mar. 3, 22 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA Mar. 4, 22 – Club Soda – Montreal, QC Mar. 5, 22 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON Mar. 6, 22 – WC Social Club – West Chicago, IL Mar. 8, 22 – Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO Mar. 10, 22 – The Crocodile Showroom – Seattle, WA Mar. 11, 22 – The Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC Mar. 12, 22 – Bossanova Ballroom – Portland, OR Mar. 14, 22 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA Mar. 15, 22 – The Regent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
With 2017’s Savage Sinusoid, Igorrr more than proved to be a truly unique musical force – and 2020’s Spirituality And Distortion cements that well-earned reputation. Slamming together disparate musical styles ranging from death and black metal to breakcore, Balkan, baroque and classical music in a manner that is as unconventional and unpredictable as it is thrilling, Igorrr are unlike any other act, and Spirituality And Distortion displays just as broad a range of emotions as sounds.
Last week (March 27th), IGORRR released their new full-length, Spirituality And Distortion, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the record, a video for the album track, “Downgrade Desert” (produced by Fabian Lüscher & Dynamic Frame GmbH), can be viewed below:
Igorrr‘s Gautier Serre comments: “I’m happy and proud to finally be able to share with you that piece of music which is ‘Spirituality and Distortion‘, that has been in the making for a way more time than you may think. I hope you’ll receive this album as the soundtrack of the apocalypse, as it seems to be it.
We shared 3 tracks of the album already; first one was ‘Very Noise’, then ‘Parpaing’, and two weeks ago, we shared ‘Camel Dancefloor’.
Please, keep in mind that those were only parts of a whole piece, and I created this album having in mind the whole piece of music. If you want to have a real opinion on the album, please listen to the whole album – it was built to be listened this way.”
Stream and purchase Spirituality And Distortion now at: metalblade.com/igorrr – where the album is available in various formats.
Spirituality And Distortion track-listing
1. Downgrade Desert
2. Nervous Waltz
3. Very Noise
4. Hollow Tree
5. Camel Dancefloor
6. Parpaing
7. Musette Maximum
8. Himalaya Massive Ritual
9. Lost in Introspection
10. Overweight Poesy
11. Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano
12. Barocco Satani
13. Polyphonic Rust
14. Kung-Fu Chèvre
Igorrr tour dates
June 6 – Jarny, France – Plein Air de Rock Festival
July 10 – Neskaupstadur, Iceland – Eistnaflug Fesitval
Aug. 13 – Dinkelsbuehl, Germany – Summer Breeze
Aug. 15 – St Nolf, France – Motocultor Festival
Aug. 20 – Alba Iliua, Romania – Dark Bombastic
Nov. 26 – Moscow, Russia – Aglomerat
Nov. 27 – St. Petersburg, Russia – MOD Club
On March 27th, IGORRR will release their new album, Spirituality And Distortion, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the record, a video for the new single, “Parpaing”, can be viewed here:
Igorrr‘s Gautier Serre comments: “We are so honored to welcome the final boss of death metal: George Fisher, to sing on one of the most brutal Igorrr tracks we have ever made.
“I’ve been a huge fan of George since the legendary albums “Gallery of Suicide” and “Bloodthirst” from Cannibal Corpse which had a pretty serious influence on my music.
“His participation makes a complete sense to me and to this track: who’s got a better voice than George Fisher’s voice and could fit better on chiptune 8-bit music? Heaviness versus its opposite, I found on this track the perfect match, the perfect balance.“
The previous video for “Very Noise” can be seen at: metalblade.com/igorrr – where Spirituality And Distortion can be pre-ordered in various formats.
With 2017′s Savage Sinusoid, Igorrr more than proved to be a truly unique musical force – and 2020′s Spirituality And Distortion cements that well-earned reputation. Slamming together disparate musical styles ranging from death and black metal to breakcore, Balkan, baroque and classical music in a manner that is as unconventional and unpredictable as it is thrilling, Igorrr are unlike any other act, and Spirituality And Distortion displays just as broad a range of emotions as sounds. “Getting stuck in only one emotion is very boring to me; life is a wide range of emotions – sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, angry, pissed off, nostalgic or blown away,” states mastermind Gautier Serre. “Life is not only one color. These 14 tracks are a journey through different states of mind I’ve been through.”
At no stage was there any plan, embracing the freedom offered in the wake of achieving Savage Sinusoid and going wherever ideas took him, embracing a small army of specialist musicians to help him attain his vision. Importantly, like its predecessor, this is not a predominantly electronic record. “The organization part has been more complicated as we had to fly traditional instrumentalists to our studio, so, lots of planes, trains and cars were involved to make it happen, but all the acoustic instruments have been recorded traditionally, with no help of the computer.” These included violinist Timba Harris, bassist Mike Leon, pianist Matt Lebofsky, Oud player Mehdi Haddab, accordion player Pierre Mussi, Kanoun player Fotini Kokkala and harpsichordist Benjamin Bardiaux, among others. Vocally, the most prominent performer is Laure Le Prunenec, whose operatic strains are a longtime part of the Igorrr mix, while regular collaborator Laurent Lunoir also appears on a few tracks. Serre also invited Pierre Lacasa and Jasmine Barra back to the studio (known from their appearance on previous tracks like “Vegetable Soup” and “Cheval”) to appear on “Kung-Fu Chèvre” and got to realize a dream with one guest performer. “We had the honor to welcome my personal favorite musical hero on this album: George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher of Cannibal Corpse. He screams on the track ‘Parpaing’, and his legendary voice brings the heaviness this track deserved. George is like the final boss of death metal. Like on a video game you have the final boss who is the strongest, George is the best in death metal singing. Due to the extreme heaviness and violence of his voice, I found it very much coherent to contrast it with a cheap tune of 8bit music which is the least heavy music on earth. The contrast is beautiful to my ears.” However, lyrics are less important when he is creating, and often these are delivered in languages he does not even speak. “As with the previous albums, I’m entirely focused on the sound itself and how the sonorities of the voice speaks to the heart, not the intellectual meaning of the words.”
Spirituality And Distortion track-listing
1. Downgrade Desert
2. Nervous Waltz
3. Very Noise
4. Hollow Tree
5. Camel Dancefloor
6. Parpaing
7. Musette Maximum
8. Himalaya Massive Ritual
9. Lost in Introspection
10. Overweight Poesy
11. Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano
12. Barocco Satani
13. Polyphonic Rust
14. Kung-Fu Chèvre
Igorrr tour dates w/ Author & Punisher, Otto Von Schirach
Mar. 26 – Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
Mar. 27 – Lille, France – L’Aeronef
Mar. 28 – Nantes, France – Le Stereolux
Mar. 29 – Tours, France – Le Temps Machine
Mar. 31 – Poitiers, France – Le Confort Moderne
Apr. 1 – Toulouse, France – Metronum
Apr. 2 – Madrid, Spain – Shoko
Apr. 3 – Barcelona, Spain – Salamandra
Apr. 4 – Nimes, France – Paloma
Apr. 5 – Zurich, Switzerland – Dynamo
Apr. 7 – Munich, Germany – Backstage
Apr. 8 – Bochum, Germany – Zeche
Apr. 9 – Stuttgart, Germany – Wizeman
Apr. 10 – Bruxelles, Belgium – Botanique
Apr. 11 – Schijndel, Netherlands – Passpop Festival
Apr. 12 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli – Pandora
Apr. 14 – Hamburg, Germany – Gruenspan
Apr. 15 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
Apr. 16 – Berlin, Germany – Colombia Theater
Apr. 17 – Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
Apr. 18 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palac Akropolis
Apr. 19 – Budapest, Hungary – Barba Negra Music Hall
Apr. 21 – Vienna, Austria – Szene
Apr. 22 – Ljubljana, Slovenia – Kino Siska
Apr. 23 – Milan, Italy – Legend Club
Apr. 24 – Lyon, France – Ninkasi Kao
Apr. 25 – Reims, France – La Cartonnerie
Apr. 26 – Paris, France – La Cigale
Apr. 28 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Apr. 29 – London, UK – Scala
Igorrr tour dates
June 6 – Jarny, France – Plein Air de Rock Festival
July 10 – Neskaupstadur, Iceland – Eistnaflug Fesitval
Aug. 13 – Dinkelsbuehl, Germany – Summer Breeze
Aug. 15 – St Nolf, France – Motocultor Festival
Aug. 20 – Alba Iliua, Romania – Dark Bombastic
Nov. 26 – Moscow, Russia – Aglomerat
Nov. 27 – St. Petersburg, Russia – MOD Club
On March 27th, IGORRR will release their new album, Spirituality And Distortion, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the record, a video for the new single, “Very Noise”, can be seen at: metalblade.com/igorrr – where Spirituality And Distortion can be pre-ordered in various formats.
With 2017′s Savage Sinusoid, Igorrr more than proved to be a truly unique musical force – and 2020′s Spirituality And Distortion cements that well-earned reputation. Slamming together disparate musical styles ranging from death and black metal to breakcore, Balkan, baroque and classical music in a manner that is as unconventional and unpredictable as it is thrilling, Igorrr are unlike any other act, and Spirituality And Distortion displays just as broad a range of emotions as sounds. “Getting stuck in only one emotion is very boring to me; life is a wide range of emotions – sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, angry, pissed off, nostalgic or blown away,” states mastermind Gautier Serre. “Life is not only one color. These 14 tracks are a journey through different states of mind I’ve been through.”
At no stage was there any plan, embracing the freedom offered in the wake of achieving Savage Sinusoid and going wherever ideas took him, embracing a small army of specialist musicians to help him attain his vision. Importantly, like its predecessor, this is not a predominantly electronic record. “The organization part has been more complicated as we had to fly traditional instrumentalists to our studio, so, lots of planes, trains and cars were involved to make it happen, but all the acoustic instruments have been recorded traditionally, with no help of the computer.” These included violinist Timba Harris, bassist Mike Leon, pianist Matt Lebofsky, Oud player Mehdi Haddab, accordion player Pierre Mussi, Kanoun player Fotini Kokkala and harpsichordist Benjamin Bardiaux, among others. Vocally, the most prominent performer is Laure Le Prunenec, whose operatic strains are a longtime part of the Igorrr mix, while regular collaborator Laurent Lunoir also appears on a few tracks. Serre also invited Pierre Lacasa and Jasmine Barra back to the studio (known from their appearance on previous tracks like “Vegetable Soup” and “Cheval”) to appear on “Kung-Fu Chèvre” and got to realize a dream with one guest performer. “We had the honor to welcome my personal favorite musical hero on this album: George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher of Cannibal Corpse. He screams on the track ‘Parpaing’, and his legendary voice brings the heaviness this track deserved. George is like the final boss of death metal. Like on a video game you have the final boss who is the strongest, George is the best in death metal singing. Due to the extreme heaviness and violence of his voice, I found it very much coherent to contrast it with a cheap tune of 8bit music which is the least heavy music on earth. The contrast is beautiful to my ears.” However, lyrics are less important when he is creating, and often these are delivered in languages he does not even speak. “As with the previous albums, I’m entirely focused on the sound itself and how the sonorities of the voice speaks to the heart, not the intellectual meaning of the words.”
Spirituality And Distortion track-listing
1. Downgrade Desert
2. Nervous Waltz
3. Very Noise
4. Hollow Tree
5. Camel Dancefloor
6. Parpaing
7. Musette Maximum
8. Himalaya Massive Ritual
9. Lost in Introspection
10. Overweight Poesy
11. Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano
12. Barocco Satani
13. Polyphonic Rust
14. Kung-Fu Chèvre
Igorrr tour dates w/ Author & Punisher, Otto Von Schirach
Mar. 26 – Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
Mar. 27 – Lille, France – L’Aeronef
Mar. 28 – Nantes, France – Le Stereolux
Mar. 29 – Tours, France – Le Temps Machine
Mar. 31 – Poitiers, France – Le Confort Moderne
Apr. 1 – Toulouse, France – Metronum
Apr. 2 – Madrid, Spain – Shoko
Apr. 3 – Barcelona, Spain – Salamandra
Apr. 4 – Nimes, France – Paloma
Apr. 5 – Zurich, Switzerland – Dynamo
Apr. 7 – Munich, Germany – Backstage
Apr. 8 – Bochum, Germany – Zeche
Apr. 9 – Stuttgart, Germany – Wizeman
Apr. 10 – Bruxelles, Belgium – Botanique
Apr. 11 – Schijndel, Netherlands – Passpop Festival
Apr. 12 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli – Pandora
Apr. 14 – Hamburg, Germany – Gruenspan
Apr. 15 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
Apr. 16 – Berlin, Germany – Colombia Theater
Apr. 17 – Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
Apr. 18 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palac Akropolis
Apr. 19 – Budapest, Hungary – Barba Negra Music Hall
Apr. 21 – Vienna, Austria – Szene
Apr. 22 – Ljubljana, Slovenia – Kino Siska
Apr. 23 – Milan, Italy – Legend Club
Apr. 24 – Lyon, France – Ninkasi Kao
Apr. 25 – Reims, France – La Cartonnerie
Apr. 26 – Paris, France – La Cigale
Apr. 28 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Apr. 29 – London, UK – Scala
Igorrr tour dates
June 6 – Jarny, France – Plein Air de Rock Festival
July 10 – Neskaupstadur, Iceland – Eistnaflug Fesitval
Aug. 13 – Dinkelsbuehl, Germany – Summer Breeze
Aug. 15 – St Nolf, France – Motocultor Festival
Aug. 20 – Alba Iliua, Romania – Dark Bombastic
Nov. 26 – Moscow, Russia – Aglomerat
Nov. 27 – St. Petersburg, Russia – MOD Club
France’s IGORRR have confirmed that they will embark on a brief tour of North America in early 2018 in support of their latest album and Metal Blade Records debut, Savage Sinusoid. The shows include stops in Montreal, New York, Mexico City, and more. The complete listing of dates can be found below.
IGORRR spent their summer on tour with performances in Israel and Turkey, as well as shows all over Europe in clubs and at notable fests: Dour Festival, Hellfest, UK Tech Fest, Brutal Assault, and more. For a preview of the group’s unique brand of sonic maelstrom, check out their Dour Festival performance in its entirety on the band’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/igorrrofficial
IGORRR‘s Gautier Serre comments on the upcoming tour: “This will be our first time in America and we have no idea how people will react to our music, this is very exciting, we cannot wait to blast some harpsichord and accordion in the American continent!”
Due to high demand, more vinyl has been pressed and made available for Savage Sinusoid. European imported pale blue marbled vinyl is available in limited quantities at Indiemerch here: indiemerch.com
Igorrr tour dates w/ Spotlights
Jan. 31 – Montreal, QC – Petit Campus
Feb. 1 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club
Feb. 2 – Philadelphia, PA – Voltage Lounge
Feb. 3 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Feb. 4 – New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
Feb. 6 – Chicago, IL – Reggies
Feb. 9 – Mexico City, MX – Circo Volador*
Feb. 10 – Guadalajara, MX – C3 Stage*
Feb. 12 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex*
*=no Spotlights
On June 16th, IGORRR – the brainchild of French musician and eclectic composer Gautier Serre – will release their new album, ‘Savage Sinusoid‘, via Metal Blade Records. On this record, electronic manipulations, accordion, saxophone, sitar, harpsichord, mandolin and strings sit comfortably alongside ruthless blastbeats, chunky riffs, death grunts and soaring operatic vocals – and as chaotic as this might sometimes seem, there is no lack of heart behind everything thundering from the speakers.
Now IGORRR have announced a full European tour for the fall in support of the new album! Check the dates below!
IGORR
04/10/17 IL – Tel Aviv – Gagarin
06/10/17 FR – Nimes – Paloma
07/10/17 ES – Barcelona – Razzmatazz
08/10/17 ES – Madrid – Caracol
09/10/17 FR – Bordeaux – Iboat
10/10/17 FR – Nantes – Le Ferrailleur
11/10/17 FR – Brest – La Carène
13/10/17 NL – Rotterdam – Rvlt Festival
14/10/20 NL – Arnhem – Willemeen
15/10/17 FR – Reims – La Cartonnerie
16/10/17 FR – Rouen – Le 106
17/10/17 FR – Lille – Aeronef
19/10/17 FR – Metz – Les Trinitaires
20/10/17 FR – Séléstat – Rock Your Brain Festival
21/10/17 FR – Cannes – Make Some Noise Festival
22/10/17 IT – Milano – Magnolia
23/10/17 IT – Calenzano – Cycle Club
25/10/17 SK – Bratislava – Randal
26/10/17 HU – Budapest – Durer Kert
27/10/17 CZ – Praha – Nova Chmelnice
28/10/17 DE – Berlin – Bi Nuu
29/10/17 DE – Dresden – Scheune
30/10/17 DE – Hamburg – Logo
01/11/17 DE – Hannover – Glocksee
02/11/17 GR – Athens – t.b.a.
04/11/17 BE – Antwerpen – GrindWaarpen Festival
05/11/17 UK – Milton – The Craufurd Arms
07/11/17 UK – Birmingham – The Flapper
08/11/17 UK – London – 02 Academy Islington
09/11/17 UK – Glasgow – Audio
10/11/17 UK – Manchester – Rebellion
13/11/17 FR – Toulouse – Rex
14/11/17 FR – Clermont-Ferrand – La Coopérative De mai
15/11/17 FR – Paris – La Maroquinerie
16/11/17 FR – Lyon CCO
17/11/17 CH – Bulach – Wooz Club
18/11/17 CH – Bulle – Ebullition
Other IGORRR live dates
17/06/17 FR – Clisson – Hellfest
07/07/17 FR – Vendargues – What The Fest?!
09/07/17 UK – Winthorpe – UK Tech Fest
15/07/17 BE – Dour – Dour Festival
11/08/17 CZ – Jaromer – Brutal Assault
26/08/17 FR – Cormeilles – True Normand
For previews and making-of-videos of ‘Savage Sinusoid‘, the album’s first single, ‘ieuD’, and the ‘Opus Brain’ video (directed by Garrick J. Lauterbach // vimeo.com/letterboxcollective) head over to metalblade.com/igorrr where you can also pre-order the album in these formats:
–Digipak CD
–pale skin clear vinyl (limited to 500 copies)
–cream/white splatter (limited to 200 copies – EU exclusive)
–golden yellow vinyl (limited to 100 copies – Bandcamp exclusive)
–tan-marbled vinyl (limited to 200 copies – US exclusive)
*exclusive bundles with a shirt, plus digital options are also available!
To realize ‘Savage Sinusoid‘ as a completely sample-free record, Serre reunited with vocalists Laurent Lunoir and Laure Le Prunenec, along with drummer Sylvain Bouvier, and collaborated with more musicians than on any of his previous releases – one of those guests being Cattle Decapitation‘s Travis Ryan, who lends his vocals on “Cheval”, “Apopathodiaphulatophobie” and “Robert”. While ‘Savage Sinusoid‘ draws from a plethora of genres, Serre has no intention of baffling or alienating potential listeners. As he explains: “I just want to make the music I love, without asking myself if it’s gonna be too complex or too far from what people like. I want to make the music which has sense to me, with no restrictions, like a big party with metalheads, electronics nerds, classical and baroque-heads and gypsy violinists getting drunk and joining together to bring the best of every genre.“
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