Ukrainian sensations Jinjer innovates with their unrivalled, fifth modern metal masterpiece, Duél, recently released via Napalm Records that feature charismatic vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk’s vocals that combine brutal growls and epic, clean vocals throughout these eleven tracks.
Opening track ‘Tantrum’ is the real deal of inhuman warp speed death metal, turning briefly around on a screeched vocal, before heading back to a full-on drum assault, a brief, sedate midsection and serrated outro. ‘Hedonist’ is a blackened cloak of doom, suffocating the array of emotions. Once more, the switch of vocal styles astonishes in its variety around demolition ball power blast beats.
‘Rogue’ is a whirlwind of downturned fury to blow your speakers with rock and roll, increasing in lunacy to give the listener a journey into the eye of the storm.
‘Tumbleweed’ is all Godzilla stomped grooves that writhe and churn as another captivating vocal ascends this song to the stratosphere, crashing and burning on suffocating vibes.
‘Green Serpent’ has an eerie intro from an edgy lead vocal, bass barrage, pinned down by innovative drum patterns. ‘Kafka’ and its almost jazz like time changes wind itself around four minutes of laid-back serenity, exploding into life when guitar work is like a weapon of mass destruction.
‘Dark Bile’ lives up to its title as all Hell breaks loose as a juggernaut of grind is brain scrambling! ‘Fast Draw’ has insistent snare drum tenacity, battering alongside more doom riddled dirges and a broken glass chewed lead vocal.
‘Someone’s Daughter’ is an avalanche of grindcore to test the metal mettle of your sound system that surely isn’t indestructible enough to handle the ensuing onslaught.
‘A Tongue So Sly’ is an aural upheaval of tectonic plate worrying brutality, purely from another dose of snotty nosed snare drum barrage. ‘Duel’ closes the album on a gallop of buzzsaw, demented riffed guitar overload, for this full on headbanger!
Review by Dennis Jarman
