Metal Dude * Musician (REACTION) - JINJER - "Mediator" & (Live Drum Playthrough) 

Jinjer - Call Me A Symbol (Official Live in LA)

Jinjer not only write banger after banger, but the musicianship is always next level!

Love the double-feature! Captain Clock is probably my favourite guitar playthrough from Roman. The official live video is an awesome performance, especially from Tatiana, even though the guitar sound is bad. There's also a lyric video, but you really need to see the outro section performed live by Tatiana.

LOVE the double feature. Some good Roman playthroughs: “Pit of Consciousness” “Judgement and Punishment” “I Speak Astronomy”

Freakin love this track. That beginning "Stop......GO.......come ooooon!" Let's you know you are in for a hell of a ride!

You really can't go wrong with any of Roman's playthroughs, I love the 'Outlander' one, but all of them are good.

✨✨Just amazing!!!!!!✨✨

Whew, lots of energy there. Makes me a bit on the tired side just watching them.

I think Vlad is using a rack tom as a floor tom next to the kick. The other two are regular floors. Which is something I see a lot of drummers doing these days. It makes some sense because if it's mounted on hardware rather than sitting on legs you can repeat the position of it easier from setup to setup. The extra snare is a really tiny one cranked really high. It sounds amazing for what he uses it for. Those K Zildjian cymbals have a really satisfying tone to them. Since Vlad was originally a pianist I think playing split handed was a natural for him. Tatiana's lyrics are always so good. Her process for writing them might be rushed and chaotic but it works.

Roman is kind of the unsung hero of this band. He is actually very involved personally with the songwriting and arrangement process of Jinjer. Watching guitar playthroughs of his after Oksen (original guitarist) left the band is wild because you don't really have an idea about how much one guy is doing to fill up a LOT of space in the mix until you watch him play it... dude is up and down the neck of those guitars every song

Sacramento Proud! I love Primus. Less Claypool is an insane bassist.

Here for the Jinjer! I absolutely love the playthrough videos. It really helps appreciation of the full band compositions to start to understand what's going on with the individual instruments. It's complex stuff. Even more complex than is often apparent from listening to the album or watching the band videos. Somehow the complexity of the individual parts blends into a cohesive whole that sounds less complex than its parts.

It’s actually crazy how this band and especially Tatiana makes me feel… i’m not even a metal fan but this band is really tight. Tati makes me feel emotional I somewhat feel like she could be one of my greatest friend. Lol I know this sounds crazy but holy f I love em

Back on the Jinjer train Bill!! Nice reaction!! As always, I am awed by Vlad, considering his background. Have you seen his rendition of Rachmaninoff on piano and also Pantera on guitar? The man is so talented!!

Awesome

Lyrically, I take this song as expressing existential moral outrage at all the shit that goes on in the world & how it can cause us to feel alienated & disconnected. Even though Tatiana is avowedly atheist, she sort of addresses her outrage to god. In the first half of the song, when the video depicts her dressed elegantly in a room, she's telling us that she was once optimistic about the world, seeing it as "an amusement park, rather colourful than dark". She changes costume partway through that section, signifying that she's realizing that the world is darker than she thought when she was younger. She switches to harsh vocals with the lyrics "Firе's burning all around us, And all we feel is cold", which I take to mean that we see the horrors happening around us, but are typically cold to it instead of outraged or moved to action. She changes to a grungier costume & moves into the band's space for the "dirty streets" section, wishing that she could show god what's happening here on earth, lamenting that god doesn't teach her what she should do, instead abandoning her to try to cope with it in whatever way she can...she finds that she has to disconnect herself from it just to cope ("Cold blood is coursing through my veins, 'Cause ice will never burn"). She ends the song wondering what it could mean to be happy & enjoy inner peace in a world like this, & wondering what we have to do to get god's help. Anyway, that's my interpretation. Mediator Stop! Go! Go on! My wish would be To see this sun shining To hear these birds singing Children laughing, hearts recovering My dream has always been Life has always seemed To be an amusement park Rather colourful than dark I wanted a loser to win The thin never starving The full not keeping it down And needing nothing from no one I wanted the poor to live in abundance I wanted the rich to have someone Except for himself To love and take care of I wanted a loser to win The thin never starving The full not keeping it down And needing nothing from now on Firе's burning all around us And all we feel is cold I want a neighbour, not a hater And a hеad to go round From white, white snow But what to do now? Wish I could catch god by the beard And drag him to the dirty streets To show him what was going on The kind of curse we've waged upon We're half way through to freedom The path is treacherous The best way to make a kettle boil Is to turn your back on this You've stranded me with no decree No lessons given, only learned Cold blood is coursing through my veins 'Cause ice will never burn What is happiness? What is inner peace? What do we have to do To get a piece of you?

"JUDGEMENT AND PUNISHMENT" | TATIANA SHMAYLUK ONE TAKE VOCAL 100%

Tatiana turn 37 year old tomorrow

Yo BB wussup! Great job as always! If memory serves, there are 13 bass playthrough vids with Eugene: Vortex, Noah, Ape, Perennial, Copycat, Colossus, On The Top, Wallflower, Beggars' Dance, Judgement & Punishment, Who Is Gonna Be the One, Retrospection, Home Back. There are also a bunch of "shorts," and some bass cam vids, like Dreadful Moments. Switching to guitar for a moment, here's a fun "cover" video of Top 10 Jinjer Riffs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kLyuOx-xGy0.htmlsi=CpKLwuKHXf-zWY4d Yeah, Roman is a whole other animal. When I watch his playthrough vids I'm always boggled, like "THAT'S what he's playing???" I think my favorite of his is Vortex, which reminds of Alex Lifeson on mushrooms (that's probably a thing lol). His parts are often so seemingly dissonant, especially when heard on their own. Tati often finds a surprising melody that pulls the whole thing together.

And this was an extra-track? ....

Love me some Jinjer! ✌️🫶💪 Brother!