De Oekraïense metalband Jinjer heeft hun nieuwe, vijfde studioalbum aangekondigd. Op 7 februari a.s. komt Duél uit. Vooruitlopend is afgelopen week de derde single uitgebracht: Kafka, nadat eerder al Someone's Daughter en Rogue een tipje van de sluier oplichtten.
Kafka begint redelijk rustig, met cleane zang van frontvrouw en metalicoon Tatiana Shmayluk, maar slaat halverwege om in vette grunts en screams die we gewend zijn van Jinjer. Het geheel gaat gepaard met een kunstzinnige, onheilspellende lyricsvideo.
Tatiana over Kafka: "Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal. As our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note, we‘re expected to be on point all-the-time … and when we aren’t, we are scandalized. A true artist is vulnerable but the crowd is most often plagued with vultures who pick at every single move you make. It’s a slippery slope when music means the world to us but how quickly praise turns into prosecution… We are all Kings and Queens for a day but most of the time it feels like a Kafka novel for a lifetime. It‘s exciting but surreal and absurd at the same time."
Jinjer is zondag 3 november a.s. live te checken bij Sepulfest in Den Bosch en twee dagen later in Brussel.
Lees:
Through their relentless hard work, non-stop touring and critically acclaimed, chart-breaking releases gaining millions of streams/views across all platforms globally, JINJER are truly one of modern metal's hottest and most exciting bands around today. The band has become synonymous with doing things their own way and breaking every rule in the heavy metal handbook - which they proved loud and clear on their hugely successful fourth studio album, Wallflowers. The four-piece progressive groove metal wrecking machine known as JINJER have carved their very own place in the metal landscape. JINJER was formed in 2009, but consider the official start of the band to have happened with the addition of incredible vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk in 2010.
