Today, in the pages of Metal Street News, another worthy Ukranian team, performing his own composition with unprecedented passion and strenght.
JINJER
Gorlovka
Gorlovka
Style: prog-metalcore/groove metal
Hi, JINJER! Tell us about the band's achievements in 2012. Are you satisfied with the band's promotion?
Generally speaking we are satisfied with the results of our promotion this year. But what is really there this year has been a kind of breakthrough for us, though on a local level. But all in order. At first it is worth marking out the release of 5 song-EP INHALE. DO NOT BREATHE and our debut videoclip EXPOSED AS A LIAR at the beginning of February. Obviously owing to the video we were noticed both in Ukraine and abroad. Still at the beginning of the year we just had a community on vk.com with two thousand fans and that's all. And only after 9-10 months the number of fans on vk.com grew twice. Some enthusiasts from Philadelphia created a page on Facebook.com, by the way there is a sort of curious thing connected with that. They didn't know where we were from and wrote simply – JINJER from Philadelphia, the USA))))
We got even nervous when we came across with that community thinking that someone had stolen our name, songs, etc. But no, those Americans simply were very surprised after watching our videos on Youtube that our band has nothing on Facebook. Then frankly speaking they gave us the administration rights. Now, we have got 1200 fans on Facebook. The videoclip has been watched more than 140 000 times, despite the fact that it was filmed in one night and if I tell you how much it cost you will burst out laughing. In the Summer we did play at two fests in Dnepropetrovsk. That was a local festival SKHODZHENNYA and sensational THE BEST CITY. UA. It is worth marking out that we were the only “screaming” metal band at that quite-pop event. Well, any away a local TV channel of Dnepropetrovsk in a programme NE DUB' OVOSCHEM and a website TOCHKA.NET claimed us as “a real discovery of the festival”. Then there was LOADING fest in Lviv, a magnificent festival which gathered more than 1200 spectators. That was our first performance not only in Lviv but also in the west of Ukraine, but the audience took us really warmly. Again, we were pleasantly surprised. As for the latest news, we can't but say about our performance in BINGO club, Kiev, supporting a band ANNA, one of the best alternative bands of Ukraine and the BINGO club being one of the best concert-sites of the state. And finally on 15th November we are finishing our concert season of 2012 playing at INSHA MUSYKA fest with such bands as TOL, MEGAMASS and TKN (all of them are top metal band for Ukraine). Well, in general this year we have played twice more shows in different cities of Ukraine than for first two years of JINJER's history.
I see you are touring a lot around Ukraine, which city/concert-maker received you in the best way? Where do people like you most?
Of course we have the most of fans at home in Donbass (the east region of Ukraine). The second place is perhaps for the city of Dnepropetrovsk. We have already played there 4 times during our short history and managed to gain there our own audience. Thus the best relationships with concert-makers are in Donestk, with Sasha Antoshin, the owner of DETROIT club before its closure, where we strictly speaking gained our experience of live shows, and in Dnepropetrovsk, with Alex Petrov, the maker of SKHODZHENNYA fest. I should say that both these men approach the organisation of shows in a very professional way. You could only dream of a better concert-maker)
It is known that in the first half of 2013 you are planning to release an LP, can you reveal its concept, what is this work going to be?
To say “release” is too laud. We are planning only to compose the material and record it by the summer of the next year. Herewith we have to make allowance on how complicated the process will be. We have decided to approach or debut LP in a completely serious way. The final recording and mastering will be preceded by the pre-production stage when we can take a look at our songs as listeners and make changes if necessary. But nobody knows how much time we will need to look for a label. Any way there will be singles and a videoclip on one of the songs from the upcoming album on the Internet. What is the album going to be? In many ways it will be heavier and more diverse.... sometime faster... and heavier one more time)
Which way do you promote the band? Do you use the help of any PR-agent's or do it on your own? What would you advice to bands-beginners how to improve themselves?
We do not use any services. No paid promotion on social networks. No pumping up views, fans, votes, likes, etc. Nothing like that. We do everything ourselves. And by the example of our video you only have to give a push at the beginning. You send your content everywhere and everyone at first and then it will work as a snowball independently. Advice? There is a huge request to young musicians, first learn how to play then go and make tatoos. And don't forget about self-promotion. The times when everyone was waiting to be noticed have passed, now you have to achieve everything on your own.
Which bands do JINJER's musicians play also in?
At the moment there is only FALSTEP band where our guitarist Roman Ibramkhalilov plays.
Tell us about your favorite bands. Which styles do you prefer? What kind of affect has it had on your band's songs? We prefer good music regardless any styles. We could be witnessed listening to Cypress Hill in a car driving to a different city to play a gig)))) As for bands which are more or less relevant to us our tastes meet only for three bands - Lamb of God, R.A.T.M. и Mudvayne, but we can't claim that any of these bands influenced JINJER's music significantly. It is possible to say that each of us has bands which had affect on his or her own musical development and subsequently each of us has made his or her own contribution to JINJER.
Describe your dream as a musician? What must it be: ideal organisation, stage, promotion?
That's a question indeed) Our dream is to play at such fests as Wacken Open Air и Rock Am Ring. When it comes true, it will be fucking awesome)
What are the latest news from the band?
The video EXPOSED AS A LIAR has got on A-ONE UA TV channel recently. And to tell a SECRET, we are going to release a new !videoclip! next week.
Which other bands do you think are your competitors?
Competitors? This is a kind of Art and creativity, but not business or sport. There is no place for competition. If a band looked at their colleagues as at friends or at least comrades it would be much easier and quieter! For example a band ATAKAMA from Moscow – great guys and a girls, we played together in Donetsk, had great tome together, exchanged some experience, had some beer. Everything was very positive. Then they offered us to take part in a certain project, we refused for some reason, but there is still a fact that the people do keep in touch. Fuck COMPETITION! On the other hand you can't avoid being compared to other bands. We are often compared to American IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, though we do not listen to them much. Some comparisons are sometimes annoying a bit. For instance when people compare us to a Moldavian band INFECTED RAIN. The only common feature we share with this definitely worthy band is our Tatiana's dreadlocks. But we play in completely different styles! Generally comparisons based on appearance are quite common in our country.
What's you attitude to labels and self-releases? What do you prefer?
Labels are a great thing but only at some certain stage of a band's development. To work on a label from the very beginning has no sense now. And frankly speaking nowadays labels get more from bands than bands from labels. But at some certain stage having a release on a label is just necessary. A trivial example, we were trying to cooperate with some metal magazines but got a refusal. “We work only with bands who have official releases” - explained they. That's why we are planning now to release our debut LP on a label.
What kind of promotion do you consider to be the most effective: magazines, the Internet, rumours)?
Undoubtedly the Internet reigns today! But you mustn't shoot off the other types of promotion. In many ways printed magazines remain a matter of prestige for bands.
Tell us about the video which you are preparing to release now.
We invited PICOI camera crew and filmed a concert video on a song Scissors in BINGO club in Kiev. In the new videoclip you will be able to see both performance on stage and backstage shots where members of such bands as ANNA, MEGAMASS and a new band from Kiev DISJOINTED also appeared. At the moment the videoclip is being edited , but very soon we will present it to the public and also offer it to A-ONE rotation.
All photos by the group JINJER
The official groupe page:
http://vk.com/jinjer_metal
http://www.froster.org/bands/band-1538.html
http://www.facebook.com/JinjerOfficial
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Jinjer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lxwGWmFiu_w#!
Interviewed by OLGA VALDEM
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