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Jinjer emerged from Donetsk, Ukraine, near the end of the 2000s and developed into one of modern metal’s most distinctive international bands. Vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk, guitarist Roman Ibramkhalilov, bassist Eugene Abdukhanov, and drummer Vlad Ulasevich built a sound that moves between progressive metal, groove metal, metalcore, djent, jazz, funk, reggae, and soul without losing its rhythmic force.
The band’s early recordings included Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear and Inhale, Do Not Breathe. Those releases established Jinjer’s appetite for abrupt changes in tempo, texture, and vocal intensity while the group built an audience through persistent touring across Ukraine and neighboring countries.
Cloud Factory arrived in 2014 and became the first full-length Jinjer album to reach a broad international audience. Songs including “Outlander,” “Who Is Gonna Be the One,” and the title track displayed the technical precision and emotional volatility that would become central to the band’s identity. Napalm Records later reissued the album with two additional live recordings.
Jinjer’s international breakthrough accelerated with King of Everything in 2016. “Pisces” became the band’s signature introduction for millions of listeners, contrasting Shmayluk’s clean singing with her extreme vocals inside an arrangement that shifts from restrained melody to crushing groove. “I Speak Astronomy,” “Sit Stay Roll Over,” and “Words of Wisdom” further expanded the band’s reach.
The five-song Micro EP and the full-length Macro both appeared in 2019. Together, the releases pushed Jinjer’s songwriting toward increasingly complex structures while preserving the band’s ability to make difficult rhythmic ideas feel immediate. “Ape,” “Perennial,” “Teacher, Teacher!,” “Judgement (& Punishment),” “Retrospection,” and “Home Back” became major parts of the group’s live repertoire.
Jinjer documented that period on Alive in Melbourne, recorded in March 2020 and released later that year. The concert captured the band near the end of the Macro touring cycle, shortly before the pandemic interrupted international touring.
Wallflowers followed in 2021 with songs including “Vortex,” “Mediator,” “Colossus,” and “Disclosure!” The album joined technical aggression with more inward-looking writing shaped by isolation, displacement, and personal pressure. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Jinjer temporarily paused touring before returning to the road while raising awareness and support for their country.
The 2024 concert release Live in Los Angeles presented material from across Jinjer’s career, while Jinjer | Audiotree From Nothing offered new performances of “Vortex,” “Wallflower,” and “Dead Hands Feel No Pain.”
Jinjer released their fifth studio album, Duél, on February 7, 2025. “Someone’s Daughter,” “Rogue,” “Kafka,” “Green Serpent,” “Fast Draw,” “Dark Bile,” and the title track continued the band’s exploration of internal conflict, identity, pressure, and endurance. The album remained at the center of Jinjer’s touring activity through 2026.
Across each stage of their career, Jinjer have balanced physical heaviness with unexpected space and melody. Shmayluk’s vocal range, Ibramkhalilov’s tightly constructed guitar work, Abdukhanov’s highly active bass lines, and Ulasevich’s detailed drumming give the band a sound that is instantly recognizable even when the music changes direction without warning.
Complete List Of Jinjer Songs From A to Z
A–E
- “A Plus or a Minus” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “A Plus or a Minus (Live from Sentrum)” – Cloud Factory (Reissue) (2018)
- “A Tongue So Sly” – Duél (2025)
- “Abbyss” – Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009)
- “Angels (They Will Get Us All)” – Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009)
- “Ape” – Micro (2019)
- “Ape (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “As I Boil Ice” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “As I Boil Ice (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Bad Water” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Beggar’s Dance” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Call Me a Symbol” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Call Me a Symbol (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Captain Clock” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Captain Clock (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Cloud Factory” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Colossus” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Copycat” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Copycat (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Dark Bile” – Duél (2025)
- “Dead Hands Feel No Pain” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Dead Hands Feel No Pain (Audiotree From Nothing)” – Jinjer | Audiotree From Nothing (2024)
- “Dead Hands Feel No Pain (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Destroy” – Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009)
- “Destroy (Live)” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “Dip a Sail” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Disclosure!” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Disclosure! (Live in Paris)” – Live in Los Angeles Deluxe Edition (2024)
- “Dreadful Moments” – Micro (2019)
- “Duél” – Duél (2025)
- “Exposed as a Liar” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
F–J
- “Fast Draw” – Duél (2025)
- “Green Serpent” – Duél (2025)
- “Hedonist” – Duél (2025)
- “Home Back” – Macro (2019)
- “Home Back (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Home Back (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Hypocrites & Critics” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “I Speak Astronomy” – King of Everything (2016)
- “I Speak Astronomy (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “I Speak Astronomy (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Intro (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Intro (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Judgement (& Punishment)” – Macro (2019)
- “Judgement (& Punishment) (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Judgement (& Punishment) (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Just Another” – King of Everything (2016)
K–O
- “Kafka” – Duél (2025)
- “lainnereP” – Macro (2019)
- “Mediator” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Micro” – Micro (2019)
- “My Lost Chance” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “No Hoard of Value” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Noah” – Macro (2019)
- “Noah (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “On the Top” – Macro (2019)
- “On the Top (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “On the Top (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Outlander” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Outro (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
P–T
- “Pausing Death” – Macro (2019)
- “Pearls and Swine” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Perennial” – Micro (2019)
- “Perennial (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Perennial (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Pisces” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Pisces (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Pisces (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Pisces (Live Session)” – Pisces (Live Session) (2017)
- “Pit of Consciousness” – Macro (2019)
- “Pit of Consciousness (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Prologue” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Retrospection” – Macro (2019)
- “Retrospection (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Rogue” – Duél (2025)
- “Scissors” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “Scissors (Live)” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “Sit Stay Roll Over” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Sit Stay Roll Over (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Sit Stay Roll Over (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Sleep of the Righteous” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Sleep of the Righteous (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Someone’s Daughter” – Duél (2025)
- “Tantrum” – Duél (2025)
- “Teacher, Teacher!” – Micro (2019)
- “Teacher, Teacher! (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Teacher, Teacher! (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “The Game” – Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009)
- “The Prophecy” – Macro (2019)
- “Tumbleweed” – Duél (2025)
U–Z
- “Under the Dome” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Until the End” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “Vortex” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Vortex (Audiotree From Nothing)” – Jinjer | Audiotree From Nothing (2024)
- “Vortex (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Wallflower” – Wallflowers (2021)
- “Wallflower (Audiotree From Nothing)” – Jinjer | Audiotree From Nothing (2024)
- “Wallflower (Live in Paris)” – Live in Los Angeles Deluxe Edition (2024)
- “Waltz” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “Waltz (Live)” – Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
- “When Two Empires Collide” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Who Is Gonna Be the One” – Cloud Factory (2014)
- “Who Is Gonna Be the One (Live from Atlas)” – Cloud Factory (Reissue) (2018)
- “Who Is Gonna Be the One (Live in Los Angeles)” – Live in Los Angeles (2024)
- “Who Is Gonna Be the One (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
- “Words of Wisdom” – King of Everything (2016)
- “Words of Wisdom (Live in Melbourne)” – Alive in Melbourne (2020)
Other
- “Желаю Значит Получу” – Cloud Factory (2014)
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Jinjer Studio Albums
Cloud Factory (2014)
King of Everything (2016)
Macro (2019)
Wallflowers (2021)
Duél (2025)
Jinjer EPs, Live Albums, And Selected Releases
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009)
Inhale, Do Not Breathe (2012)
Pisces (Live Session) (2017)
Cloud Factory (Reissue) (2018)
Micro (2019)
Alive in Melbourne (2020)
Live in Los Angeles (2024)
Jinjer | Audiotree From Nothing (2024)
Updated July 31, 2026.
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