“It is difficult to give soul to such beast of an album” – interview with Tatiana Shmayluk of Jinjer

One of modern metal’s most talked-about artists, Ukrainian progressive groove metal icons Jinjer, unleashed their highly anticipated new full-length album, “Duél” on February 7th via Napalm Records. Bassist Eugene Abdukhanov has said about the album:

“First of all, it‘s hard to believe that we’re about to release our fifth full length album! After all the releases we’ve made, finally having Duél in our hands and ready to be shared with the world, makes us very proud that our band still hasn’t run out of creativity and inspiration. The fact that we still

challenge ourselves to release the best music we have ever made with each new release, is what keeps JINJER moving forward. This upcoming album was the longest songwriting process we’ve ever had and it took almost two years to complete. We worked very hard with every free minute we weren’t on tour, recording demos over and over again and always searching for the perfect sound for guitars, bass and drums. It was also the first time that Tatiana did vocal pre-productions, so it’s safe to say that none of our releases were so well thought out and calculated as this one. It pulverizes the boundaries of the modern progressive metal genre but still remains sophisticated, exciting and extreme all at the same time. We took up the challenge to expand our musical horizons even wider than before in order to cement Duél to be the next step in JINJER‘s musical growth and hopefully the evolution of metal music in general.”

Chaoszine sat down with the band’s vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk to discuss about what kind of process it was to create lyrics for the band’s new album and what kind of relationship the band has with Finland. You can check out the entire video interview below:

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You can listen to Jinjer‘s brand new album “Duél” in full below: