Ukrainian metal champions Jinjer have ramped up their siege on the landscape opf contemporary heavy music, confirming February 7th as the arrival date for their fifth studio album, Duél'. 

The next full length studio project from Jinjer follows the acclaim of their 2021 LP, Wallflowers and punctuates a summer that has seen a successful rollout of a series of impactful singles including "Someone's Daughter" and "Rogue". 

Continuing their fruitful working relationship with producer Max Morton, 'Duél' showcases Jinjer's continued progression as heavy music practitioners in their prime. Anchored by the charisma and command of vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk and the compositional talent of Eugene Abdukhanov, Jinjer is firmly positioned as one of the best in the game currently. 

Along with the news of the forthcoming Napalm Records release, Jinjer has delivered a third preview from the album in  “Kafka”. Coupled with a sleek new lyric video, the track underscores Jinjer's growth as storytellers and songwriters, working from a slow burn to a towering inferno fueled by the anguish that can come with devoting your life to art.  

Vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk explained the depth of the latest single, “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 …”

Speaking more in depth about the gravity of this next full length album, Eugene Abdukhanov put the project into perspective and offered some insight on just how consuming crafting new Jinjer music can be.  “...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."

Abdukhanov also explained how this new record levels up Jinjer's contribution to contemporary heavy music. "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.”

As for the forecast for the rest of the year, Jinjer recently completed their North American headlining run which included appearances at Louder Than Life in Louisville, the return of Mayhem Festival and a play at Aftershock in Sacramento. Jinjer will begin a run supporting Sepultura for the band's farewell tour in Europe before closing their year with a headlining trek through Latin America. See below for a complete list of dates and cities.  Get tickets - HERE

Duél, the fifth studio album from Jinjer lands February 7th via Napalm Records. Pre-order the album - HERE