Amen

IGORRR and the Sacred Abyss of Amen

Since its earliest steps, IGORRR has stood out for merging the extreme with the erudite, electronic chaos with classical grandeur, like a craftsman melting opposite worlds in the same forge. Led by Gautier Serre, the project has always been a shapeshifting organism, but now, with Amen, it feels as if it has crossed a darker and heavier threshold. Serre doesn’t just build, he tears down expectations, summoning everything he has created so far to revisit, challenge, and expand his deepest limits.

The mind behind the chaos: Gautier Serre

To speak of IGORRR is to speak of Gautier Serre. The French composer carries a rare artistic personality: obsessive in detail yet guided by an almost anarchic intuition. Serre doesn’t see genres as boundaries but as tools: baroque, metal, breakcore, Middle Eastern music, all become raw material in his hands. His creative restlessness is evident both in interviews and in the way he builds albums: always questioning patterns, always pushing beyond the comfort zone. He embodies a modern alchemist, someone who prefers strangeness over predictability and finds beauty precisely in discomfort. On Amen, this side of him grows stronger, as though he were channeling a personal manifesto into sound, liturgical, chaotic, and sublime.

Portals of madness and liturgy: the first impact

When I pressed play, I was immediately struck by the almost ritualistic tension lingering from the opening seconds. Amen is not just a sequence of songs, it’s a full-on rite, where incense of noise, choral chants, and electronic explosions coexist in an insane unison. The opening tracks unleash invasive riffs, dense atmospheres, and relentless heaviness. This macabre liturgy collides with metallic beats, creating a disturbing marriage of beauty and ferocity. Operatic voices, classical lines, and chaotic electronic kits aren’t there by accident, they feel like Serre wants to dig into the soul while tearing at the flesh of sound. Each transition hits like a twist of fate, and soon it’s clear that Amen demands not just listening but emotional endurance.

Controlled chaos: diversity with purpose

What makes this album so captivating is its ability to leap between extremes with precision. There are nearly meditative passages, such as in 'Limbo', where choir and melody rise over a dark backdrop, creating sharp contrast with aggressive eruptions like 'Blastbeat Falafel' or 'Mustard Mucous'. Ethnic flavors, synths, electronic rhythms, and blast beats intertwine. Breakcore disrupts, metal punches deep, baroque elevates drama. Even in its most chaotic moments, there’s intention, the madness is crafted, not accidental. Amen gives the impression that every noisy eruption is the product of refined calculation, not mere disorder.

Atmosphere and aggression intertwined

Beyond unleashed technique, Amen carries an emotional density that feels almost tangible. The production reinforces this by letting every color (vocals, electronics, instruments) breathe within the dark universe Serre has constructed. The album sounds heavier, graver, more ominous, not just because of metal’s weight, but through metaphor, inverted prayers, and electronic ruins. This is not experimentation for its own sake. It’s as though Serre is investigating a personal mythology, using choirs, synths, and guitars to build altars and tear down taboos. The quieter, more classical moments don’t ease the impact, they magnify it, setting the stage for what follows.

Coherence between the unsettling and the sublime

Despite its abundance of styles, Amen sustains a clear narrative: from liturgical darkness to mechanical rebellion, the album keeps brutal tension alive throughout. There are no fillers, every track contributes to a total immersion into IGORRRs shadowy vision. It’s striking how the most absurd, electronic bursts feel connected to the heaviest, metallic moments, as if all strangeness were part of the same fever dream. Of course, the extreme edges won’t resonate with everyone. But for those who embrace audacity as a principle, this record pulses like a chaotic yet cohesive work of art.

Conclusion: Amen as transcendence and destruction

With Amen, IGORRR delivers not just music but a manifesto. It’s sonic destruction, electronic elegy, baroque chant, and brutal assault all at once. For those following the world of extreme metal, this album confirms that Serre remains one of the genre’s most restless creators, unafraid to challenge norms, blend tradition with noise, and push human creativity past conventional boundaries. Listening to Amen feels like entering a bizarre liturgy, leaving intoxicated, and being compelled to return. It’s metal elevated into a strange sacrament disturbing, magnificent, and absolutely essential.