Today I’m talking about Jinjer’s 2021 LP Wallflowers.
If you missed any of the videos I did for this LP, here’s a playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYwysdyngtlInxbYiHDiH-zQSCcNsHKL
Metal Injection Interview with Tatiana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLpfwwehBQ
Twelve Foot Ninja x Tati “Over And Out” reaction: https://youtu.be/6LOJ_4FH7Hc
Watch me tiptoe back into metal after 30 years: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYwysdyngtm1w-N9PbmOCqdNrE8Qg3Va
Thanks for watching!
00:00 Intro
01:03 Metal Injection interview
23:29 Review / Overall thoughts
26:15 Favorite Tracks
28:32 Outro
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Artist-specific playlists⬇
Phoebe Bridgers: https://bit.ly/3L22cBN
Mitski: https://bit.ly/3MeIkMQ
“Weird Al” Yankovic: https://bit.ly/3wBVld9
Lucy Dacus: https://bit.ly/39QFUpD
Wolf Alice: https://bit.ly/3cKEDlB
Julien Baker: https://bit.ly/3N7Ic26
Jinjer: https://bit.ly/3M3MM16
Opeth: https://bit.ly/39ajtLx
Twelve Foot Ninja: https://bit.ly/3Pds0y7
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Please do Taylor swift new album midnights
for more prog metal bands try : mastodon – "hearts alive" and gojira – "the art of dying".
for more prog rock try the mars volta start with "Drunkship Of Lanterns"
It's such a great album overall and really hard for me to pick. Dead Hands Feel No Pain is probably my favorite, but Call Me A Symbol is right up there too. You'd probably like Gojira also. I'd recommend starting with something more recent like Amazonia or Another World.
Speaking of TFN and Outlier, the music vid for Sick has a campy horror movie theme.
Are you already familiar with Spiritbox? I couldn't find any of their songs on your channel, I am surprised, I thought you already did react to them. You definitely should check them out!
They also produce mostly progressive metal, but often more ethereal, atmospheric with lush reverb (if that makes any sense) compared to Jinjer. Anyway, quality stuff, very polished 👍
I would recommend "Rule of Nines" as an introductory song (the vocal one take as well as the original music video).
Do this treatment to Opeth's Pale Communion album!
My favourite is Wallfower
Very good video about Jinjer 👍
I'm another one who listened to 80's/90's thrash back then and have found Jinjer. I've tried listening to some other modern prog metal but haven't found any that do it for me like Jinjer. If you do any more Jinjer on your channel, you'll like the Macro album and Micro EP. The stuff before these lean more to the metal side, less progressive. Also, definitely go see them this fall/winter if they are close to you. I saw them last November and was blown away by how good they sounded. I get to see them this November as well! Only concert I been to in years, but these days i sit in the balcony instead of being on the floor, lol. I posted a video or 2 from the last show.
I didn't realize how much I'd appreciate you doing this until I listened so thanks!
It's funny you mentioned symphonic metal since I have kept my mouth shut so to speak not wanting to offend people and get in trouble, but as much as I grew up loving Opera and classical music from throughout the ages, I've never quite clicked with symphonic metal. Not that there's anything wrong with it maybe a certain style could capture my attention better. Ironically Jinjer through their musical complexity and genre mixing has made me appreciate extreme metal in a way that I never expected.
If you enjoyed Jinjer, you should check out a all female metal band from Japan called Lovebites. They sing in English and shred better than
most guitarist today. Please check out a song called Holly War live at Zepp Diver City 2020. If you do be prepared the Wolf Pack will
invade your channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgAxpEpEcno
My top 3 are: Vortex followed by Disclosure and Call Me a Symbol. 🤘 I'll be seeing Jinjer for the second time in Dec. 👍 💙💛
I like Jinjer specifically because they cross genres. I see the value of having genres because you can at least make an attempt at describing what a band's music is like to someone who hasn't heard it. Unfortunately a lot of fans get tribal about genres and frankly if fans work hard enough at doing that the bands they love can't branch out to write new songs in a natural way because the fans will savage them and even abandon them for stepping outside of the almost religiously established genre box. The "they sold out" argument that I think many times is BS.
I like most of the songs on the album. I'm not a big fan of Colossus. I think the lyrics are a bit disjointed from the song itself and doesn't catch me like some of the others. I think that might be the one example of the downsides of the writing workflow she described. Which seemed to work fine for many of the other songs but that one I think was a miss to an extent.
Thanks for your reaction to the interview and the latest Jinjer LP WALLFLOWERS!
and I also don't like Nightwish and I still don't understand why many YouTubers mention Jinjer and Nightwish in the same breath, for me they are completely different musical worlds on a different level.
warm greetings from germany