“We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists”: Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”

Jinjer in 2024.

Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk has unloaded on the term “female-fronted band”, saying that she’s sick of being piled in with other women in the heavy metal scene, even if she sounds nothing like them.

Talking in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Shmayluk says “we’re still going through this bullshit today” when asked what she thinks of the term “female-fronted band”.