Jinjer announce new album ‘Duél’

October 23, 2024 James Weaver

JINJER have announced a new album!

Titled Duél, the upcoming album from the Ukrainian progressive metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Wallflowers, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Napalm Records.

On the upcoming album, JINJER continue their long-lasting collaboration with accomplished producer Max Morton, who co-produced, mixed and mastered the album.

Speaking about the upcoming album, bassist Eugene Abdukhanov shares, “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 pulverises 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.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, JINJER have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Kafka. The new song is the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Rogue and Someone’s Daughter.

Speaking about the new song, vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk says, “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 scandalised. 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…”

Watch the official music video for Kafka here: