Jinjer have announced their new album, Duél, is set for release on February 7, 2025, via Napalm Records. The forthcoming record is promised to showcase a more aggressive delivery from the Ukrainian metal giants than what was explored in 2021’s Wallflowers. To highlight the heavier direction, the group has shared a lyric video for their latest single, “Kafka.”
Vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk comments on the new song:
“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 …”
Bassist Eugene Abdukhanov comments on the upcoming record:
“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.”
Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
Track List:
01) Tantrum
02) Hedonist
03) Rogue
04) Tumbleweed
05) Green Serpent
06) Kafka
07) Dark Bile
08) Fast Draw
09) Someone’s Daughter
10) A Tongue So Sly
11) Duél
Feature Image Photo Credit: Lina Glasir
