Igorrr presents 'Blastbeat Falafel' single featuring Trey Spruance and Timba Harris • GRIMM Gent

“Blastbeat Falafel” is the latest single from IGORRR. The track comes by way of the band’s stunning fifth album, Amen, set for release on September 19th via Metal Blade Records.

French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name IGORRR for twenty years now, yet each new record still resounds with a startling freshness and radical vitality. IGORRR‘s “Blastbeat Falafel” features guest appearances by Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) and Timba Harris (Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3). Spruance‘s main band, Mr. Bungle has long been a savvy comparison for IGORRR‘s ethos of tightly controlled musical anarchy and gleeful boundary-smashing intensity, the Californian loons 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.”

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

Amen Track Listing:
01. Daemoni
02. Headbutt
03. Limbo
04. Blastbeat Falafel
05. ADHD
06. 2020
07. Mustard Mucous
08. Infestis
09. Ancient Sun
10. Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
11. Étude n°120
12. Silence

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 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