If you are looking forward to a brand new Jinjer album, you may now not wish to hang your breath. Chatting with Steel Hammer lately, vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk admitted that operating on a follow-up to 2021’s Wallflowers wasn’t in point of fact at the band’s to-do listing at the moment.
“I confess that I have not began writing anything else but,” she instructed Hammer creator Emily Swingle. “I believe I will be able to endure this 12 months with writing lyrics. There’s 99 issues that I’ve to resolve at the moment – taxes, non-public stuff. I truthfully can’t in finding the foundation to put in writing.”
However whilst they have not but began paintings on their subsequent album, the band are infrequently resting on their laurels. For the reason that free up of Wallflowers in 2021 the band have maintained a rigorous traveling routine, together with give a boost to slots with bands like Disturbed and Bullet For My Valentine.
Subsequent month Jinjer will free up the reside album Reside In Los Angeles and feature excursion dates covered as much as take them thru the remainder of the 12 months, together with US presentations starting in Milwaukee on April 23 and an in depth Ecu and UK excursion with Sepultura as a part of the Brazilian band’s farewell excursion.
In the past, the Jinjer frontwoman defined how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had affected her ingenious procedure. “It is simple for me to put in writing about warfare when it is not going down round me,” she instructed Bloodstock TV later that very same 12 months. “But if it began, I used to be completely devastated and paralyzed creatively. I can’t write about that. I nonetheless can not procedure that. I believe it is one of these nice trauma that it takes years and years to procedure, now not just for me however most commonly for the electorate of Ukraine, for the sufferers. I in point of fact suppose that it is not my time to put in writing any other warfare music at the moment.”
Chatting with Hammer, she additionally elaborates how the strain of on a regular basis existence is affecting the form of the band’s subsequent file. “You have to say I’m impressed in some way – I may just write lyrics about pressure,” she jokes. “But it surely’s now not as poetic. It kills an artist. I want I had any person who may just repair my issues for me, so I may just simplest pay attention to gorgeous issues. Whilst I am sorting the whole lot, in my head, I play God Am by way of Alice In Chains. I play one specific line on repeat – ‘international dies, I nonetheless pay taxes.'”
