- 2024-12-03
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MUSIC
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Jinjer Releases New Song “Green Serpent”
Back in October, Ukrainian metalcore band Jinjer, consisting of Tatiana Shmayluk (Vocals), Roman Ibramkhalilov (guitars), Eugene Abdukhanov (bass) and Vlad Ulasevich (drums), announced their upcoming fifth studio album “Duél” on February 7, 2025.
From the album, the band released fourth single called “Green Serpent” on November 26, 2024.
The track was written by Ievgen Abdiukhanov, Roman Ibramkhalilov, Tetiana Shmailiuk, and Vladyslav Ulasevych. Produced by Jinjer and Max Morton.
The band said of the song, “This track has quickly become one of our favorites from the upcoming album. It sonically captures everything we’ve been, where we are now, and where we’re headed. It‘s the quintessence of all our musical endeavors!”
The accompanying music was directed by Vicente Cordero , who filmed in Los Angeles.
They added, “Filmed in Los Angeles by Vicente Cordero between our North American and European tours.”- The new album is their first body of work in four years since the 2021 album “Wallflowers” and comprises 11 songs, produced by Max Morton.
The band bassist Eugene Abdukhanov said of 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.”
He continued, “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.” -
Lead singer Tatiana Shmayluk said, “It’s gonna be different, first of all, because I feel that the music differs a lot. And to my mind, the whole - I won’t say how many songs are there; I guess 12 or even 15; let’s say 13; I don’t remember - but they all have… not all of them, but half of them, at least, they have a similarity in them. They’re similar to each other or they remind me. They have this concept within - without any lyrics, they still sound like they belong to one box. They are a set of songs. And I already think about all the... I’m not even thinking about like the lyrics - I think about the topics and stuff, but I think about the booklet or the cover or even the music videos and what I’m gonna wear there. And it has a certain flavor to me that... I feel like it has this flavor of 19th century. It’s very romanticism from the 19th century. If you listen to it, you will think, ‘Oh.’ You know, when you listen to MUSE, you feel he was inspired by a lot of classical composers - obviously. So our new music has this flavor. And I’m so excited.”
Photo by Lina Glasir
Background photo by Ilona Gerasymova - source : Apple Music
