Igorrr: North American Tour 2026

Jam Presents
IGORRR: NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2026
with Secret Chiefs 3 and Violent Magic Orchestra
TUE, 22 SEP 2026 at 07:30PM CDT
Ages: 18 & Over
Doors Open: 06:30PM
OnSale: Fri, 22 May 2026 at 10:00AM CDT
Announcement: Wed, 20 May 2026 at 09:00AM CDT
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. Steadfastly unclassifiable fifth album AMEN maintains this
impact, blindsiding the listener with a new set of exploratory curveballs and continuing to
surprise and unnerve even the most attuned enthusiast. 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, so he's the best
man to ask to describe the indescribable. "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. "Things
were in development in my studio that I haven’t done before, waiting for the right moment
and opportunity to do it," he says. "With this album they found the perfect place. As an
example I have in mind the track Silence, which is basically some very heavy harsh noise
contrasted with beautiful operatic vocals and an orchestra, on a very heavy irregular drum
beat based on a smooth piano. I have also in mind Ancient Sun, which is more like traditional
music, trip hop vibes with a harp and a theremin, but with very unusual melodies. To give
you a hint of how heavy some parts might be, I played a piano with an excavator to end the
track Headbutt. I have always been fascinated and passionate about pushing boundaries in
music, this album is no exception."
Joining the excavator, theremin and church choir in the arsenal of instrumentation utilised
here for the first time on an Igorrr record, we can also experience the deep haunting wail of
the dung-chen - a nine-foot brass horn used in Buddhist ceremonies, described by Gautier as
the "authentic sound of Tibet" - and an "old giant rusty saw, made originally to cut rocks",
pressed into service as a makeshift industrial gong. On the theme of metallic resonances,
Gautier also experimented with the percussive possibilities of a blacksmith's anvil: "I
smashed every snare on the track Pure Disproportionate Black And White Nihilism with a
giant hammer to use the tail of the sound and make it more brutal," he reveals. But it's not
all bad news for the eardrums: "Also for the first time in Igorrr there is a little baroque piece
of music, not destroyed by drums and distortions."
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 I would say
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 lead 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."
As you'd expect from such a restlessly evolving and fervidly creative talent, AMEN is an
intrinsically different beast from previous Igorrr releases, in terms of both the end result and
the process that made it. A huge leap forward for the future of the project came with the
completion of Gautier's DIY custom-built working space: "After three years of hands in the
dust building my personal recording studio, I could finally apply no technical limitation on my
obsession for the perfect sound, I could unleash my madness and spend days and nights in
the studio without restriction. I actually went way deeper on ideas on this album." Once
again, assisting Gautier in bringing his extraordinary, iconoclastic ideas to life are an exciting
cross-section of new musical guests: "The musicians here on AMEN are incredible, the
musicianship is just crazy," Gautier enthuses. "Also some of the guests I’m personally very
happy and pleased to have welcomed on this record, like Scott Ian and Trey Spruance for
example."
Mr 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. Asked
if he's yet found any musical descriptors that he's happy with, Gautier has a perfect
response: "Do you mean a word that describes my music? I didn’t see one, even through the
years. Usually when people ask me what kind of music I do, my answer is « yes ». That’s the
closest I got." He has a similarly shrewd, and endearingly heartfelt, reply to the question
about any remaining unfulfilled ambitions, 20 years into a wholly singular music career. "You
know, just the fact that my very personal vision of the music has such a big impact around
the world makes me feel very, very grateful, so my ambitions are already fulfilled."
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