IGORRR have released “Opus Brain,” a fitting document to the bands atmospheric and experimental live performance. The video was filmed live during the band’s performance at Pol’and’Rock Festival on July 30th, 2021, and comes off the 2017 album Savage Sinusoid, deemed by Metal Injection as “an awe-inspiring work of chaos and technicality.”
Watch “Opus Brain” here:
Led by architect Gautier Serre, IGORRR welcomes two new vocalists, Aphrodite Patoulidou and JB Le Bail. Rounded out by drummer Sylvain Bouvier and guitarist Martyn Clément, IGORRR has become something of a collective, rather than the work of one man alone, which has further broadened the scope of Gautier’s music without sacrificing integrity. “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. 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!“
US fans will finally get to enjoy the genre-mashing sounds of IGORRR as the band lands on US soil this February.
IGORRR On Tour with Melt Banana, Vowws 02/17 – USA – San Diego – Brick By Brick 02/18 – USA – Mesa – Nile Theater 02/19 – USA – Albuquerque – Sunshine Theatre 02/21 – USA – Austin – Come and Take it Live 02/22 – USA – Dallas – Trees 02/23 – USA – Houston Warehouse Live Studio 02/25 – USA – Tampa – The Orpheum 02/26 – USA – Atlanta – Hell @ The Masquerade 02/27 – USA – Camboro Cat’s Cradle 02/28 – USA – Baltimore – Baltimore Soundstage 03/02 – USA – New-York – Grammercy Theatre 03/03 – USA – Boston – Brighton Music Hall 03/04 – CAN – Montreal – Club Soda 03/05 – CAN – Toronto – Lee’s Place 03/06 – USA – Chicago – WC Social Club 03/08 – USA – Denver – Gothic Theatre 03/10 – USA – Seattle – The Crocodile 03/11 – CAN – Vancouver – Rockshaw Theatre 03/12 – USA – Portland – Bossanova Ballroom 03/14 – USA – San Francisco – Great American Music Hall 03/15 – USA – Los Angeles – The Regent Theater
IGORRR – the brainchild of French composer and musical mastermind Gautier Serre – releases a new live video for “Camel Dancefloor”, recorded at the Pol’And’Rock Festival in July 2021. The full video can be watched below.
Gautier Serre comments: “We have been waiting over one year and a half to be able to play this track live, this has been a very important moment for us as we were discovering how it really sounds like on a stage, and we were surprised of how strong the vibe is when we play “Camel Dancefloor,” especially with our unbelievable guitar player Martyn Clément, and the 2 new vocalists. I really feel we reached a kind of next level of heaviness on stage with Igorrr, it’s brutal.“
In March 2020, right at the beginning of the global pandemic, Igorrr released their 4th and most successful album to date: Spirituality and Distortion. Praised as a record that “will keep your brain spinning for a few weeks at least” by Blabbermouth (US). With entering the Official German Album charts on #12, Switzerland on #57 and climbing to #61 in the Billboard Top Current Album charts, the band continued to write their worldwide success story. To stream Spirituality and Distortion head over to: metalblade.com/igorrr
In November and December 2021, the band is going on tour with Horskh and Autarkh. Check the dates below:
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Autarkh Nov. 25, 2021 – Caen (FR) – BBC Nov. 26, 2021 – Tours (FR) – Le Temps Machine Nov. 27, 2021 – Rouen (FR) – Le 106 Nov. 30, 2021 – Nantes (FR) – Stereolux Dec. 01, 2021 – Genève (SW) – Post Tenebras Rock Dec. 02, 2021 – Nîmes (FR) – Paloma Dec. 03, 2021 – Poitiers (FR) – Le Confort Moderne Dec. 04, 2021 – Toulouse (FR) – Metronum Dec. 06, 2021 – Nijmegen (NL) – Doornroosje Dec. 07, 2021 – Utrecht (NL) – Tivoli Dec. 08, 2021 – Lille (FR) – Aeronef Dec. 09, 2021 – Bruxelles (BE) – La Madeleine Dec. 10, 2021 – Strasbourg (FR) – La Laiterie Dec. 11, 2021 – Paris (FR) – Le Trianon Dec. 12, 2021 – Nancy (FR) – L’Autre Canal Dec. 14, 2021 – Lyon (FR) – Ninkasi Kao Dec. 15, 2021 – Clermont-Ferrand (FR) – La Coopérative de Mai Dec. 16, 2021 – Auxerre (FR) – Le Silex Dec. 17, 2021 – Bordeaux (FR) – Rock School Barbey Dec. 18, 2021 – Limoges (FR) – CCM John Lennon
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.“
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
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