JINJER’s EUGENE ABDUKHANOV On How MESHUGGAH Formed A New Era Of Bands: “They Modified The Complete Method To The Sound”

For a lot of musicians, sharing a stage with their heroes might be each humbling and galvanizing. For Jinjer bassist Eugene Abdukhanov, acting at Obtain Pageant simply earlier than the Swedish legends Meshuggah was greater than only a prime slot: it was private.

“I have to say this, I might actually like to be there [to see their show right now],” Eugene admitted throughout an interview with Without end Loud (by way of Blabbermouth) “I checked their first songs and needed to run right here to do the interviews, ‘trigger work is figure. However that is certainly one of my favourite bands, and taking part in earlier than them was one thing particular for me.”

There’s typically a perceived divide between complexity and groove in metallic, however each Meshuggah and Jinjer handle to strike a stability. When the interviewer noticed this, Eugene didn’t hesitate to agree.

“Thanks rather a lot for the sort phrases,” he mentioned. “And you’re completely proper. Regardless of how difficult what they do appears to be, it at all times has the groove. It at all times makes you simply nod to the rhythm.”

The affect of Meshuggah on fashionable metallic is plain, and Eugene didn’t draw back from crediting them with shaping not solely Jinjer’s sound however a whole era of bands.

“I have to say that it isn’t solely us, complete generations of bands these days, kind of on this or that method, are literally primarily based on Meshuggah‘s music. In order that they modified the entire strategy to the sound, to riffing, all the pieces. So in lots of respects, they created the entire scene which we’ve now.”

That evolution — from underground curiosity to genre-defining drive — is strictly what Eugene sees because the hallmark of true legacy.

“And that is what differs, like actually legendary music, legendary bands from everyone else. You aren’t afraid to convey one thing new to the desk, it doesn’t matter what the others say. And I pay large respect to Meshuggah for that, as a result of I keep in mind the times earlier than ObZen, earlier than even Nothing, when there wasn’t such a band but, such a giant and big [band] with such a heritage. And for many individuals, it was actually exhausting to simply accept them. However I stored saying that, ‘No, this can be a actually large factor. You will note sooner or later.’ And I believe I used to be proper. So it is only a masterpiece band.”