Igorrr

Gautier Serre (born 5 June 1984), better known by his stage name Igorrr, is a French musician. Under the Igorrr alias, he combines a variety of disparate genres, including black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop, into a singular sound. Serre is also part of the now disbanded side-projects Whourkr and Corpo-Mente. The Igorrr project became a full band with the addition of vocalists Laure Le Prunenec and Laurent Lunoir, drummer Sylvain Bouvier, guitarist Martyn Clément and bassist Erlend Caspersen. In 2021, both vocalists left the band and were replaced with JB Le Bail and Aphrodite Patoulidou, who were later replaced by Marthe Alexandre. In 2024, Rémi Serafino took the position of the drummer.

History

Solo work (2004–2016) Serre plays piano, drums, and guitar and primarily uses Steinberg Cubase for recording. He named his band after a pet gerbil called Igorr that he had as a child, adding the extra "r" to "make it harder to pronounce." Serre claims to have synesthesia, in his case perceiving music as colors. which gained the attention of label Ad Noiseam. Serre won a GoPro award for film making for a video of Patrick playing filmed with a GoPro.

Expansion to full band (2017–present)

In February 2017, Igorrr signed with Metal Blade Records. His third album, Savage Sinusoid, was released on 16 June 2017. It was recorded over five years by a collective of musicians. The album was preceded by the single "ieuD". Unlike previous Igorrr albums, it did not feature any samples. It featured collaboration with members of Cattle Decapitation and Secret Chiefs 3. The album received positive critical reception, Metal Injection awarded it "The Bat Shit Crazy Album Of The Year Award", and a perfect 10/10 score, while AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars. Metal Hammer gave the album 4 out of 5 stars as well. The album charted in Belgium on the Ultratop Flanders chart, reaching #173.

Igorrr toured North America for the first time in 2018. In June 2018, Igorrr supported Ministry on their 2018 North American tour. The live show features drummer Sylvain Bouvier and vocalists Laure Le Prunenec and Laurent Lunoir, alongside Serre on vocals and programming.

Igorrr has also performed at several other festivals, including Heavy Montréal festival, Dour Festival (three times, in 2014, 2015 and 2017), Roadburn Festival, Europavox, Montreux Jazz Festival, Metaldays, Durbuy Rock Festival, Motocultor Festival, Download Festival, Brutal Assault, Hellfest Open Air, FortaRock, and Copenhell, among others. Igorrr also had a short film shown at the Orlando Film Festival. They also performed at a rock festival hosted by the opera company Opéra national du Rhin in 2017.

Style and influences Igorrr's sound combines breakbeats, heavy metal riffs, extreme tempo changes, and operatic singing coupled with screaming/growling, among other elements, to create what AllMusic describes as "an intense, disturbing, and undeniably distinct experience". industrial metal, progressive metal, classical music (especially Baroque music), breakcore, and trip hop. It has provoked labels such as "Baroquecore" and has been described as Dadaist.

In a 2017 interview, Serre said of the origin of Igorrr: "It started when I was a teenager looking for a band or an artist destroying all the limits of music, a band able to bring what all the boring mainstream bands could not bring." Serre listed classical composers Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Domenico Scarlatti, alongside contemporary acts Taraf de Haïdouks, Cannibal Corpse, Meshuggah, Aphex Twin, Mr. Bungle (as well as other Mike Patton projects), Igorrr released the Maigre EP, a collaboration with French artist Ruby My Dear. He also collaborated with fellow breakcore artist Bong-Ra Serre worked with The Algorithm on Brute Force.

Serre has remixed songs for Morbid Angel (released on Illud Divinum Insanus – The Remixes The film was screened at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. According to Serre, his initial compositions had a "medieval atmosphere", before the director told him to "just do Igorrr". The score is described as "electro-pop with a dose of heavy metal" and techno-pop.

Band members Current members Gautier Serre – guitar, programming, instrumentations, vocals Erlend Caspersen – bass Martyn Clément – guitar JB Le Bail – harsh vocals Rémi Serafino – drums Gerda Iguchi – mezzo-soprano vocals

Former members Laurent Lunoir – clean and harsh vocals Laure Le Prunenec – clean vocals Aphrodite Patoulidou – clean vocals Patrick the chicken – chicken vocals, piano Sylvain Bouvier – drums, percussion Marthe Alexandre – mezzo-soprano vocals

Recurring studio members Mike Leon – bass guitar Antony Miranda – sitar, guitar, percussion Nils Cheville – acoustic guitar Timba Harris – strings

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums Nostril (2010) Hallelujah (2012) Savage Sinusoid (2017) Spirituality and Distortion (2020) Amen (2025)

Demos oeil (2004, lost media) poison Soluble (2006) Moisissure (2008)

EPs Baroquecore (2010) Maigre with Ruby My Dear (2014)

with Whourkr Demo (2005) Naät (2007) Concrete (2008, reissued 2010) 4247 Snare Drums (2012) Naät + Concrete (2013, vinyl reissue)

with Corpo-Mente Corpo-Mente (2014)

Additional appearances DOROHEDORO Original soundtrack (2016) - "Dorohedoro"