Iron Jinn Announce Self-Titled Debut on Stickman Records; First Single Streaming
April 2023 release date for a band from the Netherlands with Oeds Beydals on guitar? That tells me Iron Jinn are at least looking to have a release party at Roadburn Festival next year. That’s supposition on my part, mind you, not insider info or anything like that, but I was fortunate enough to be there when a somewhat different incarnation of what’s become Iron Jinn played Roadburn 2018 (review here), and I recall it being righteously all over the place.
The lineup of the band has changed in the ensuing four years — and the name; they were Iron Chin at the time, which I assumed derived from Beydals‘ then-chops-heavy facial hair; I guess once you fill the beard in it makes less sense — but the first single from Iron Jinn‘s self-titled debut is “Soft Healers” and is streaming now at the bottom of this post. You will find it atmospherically rich and, well, righteously all over the place throughout its seven minutes.
More to come on this one, but the point is the music, so if you want to jump to that as you read, no one’s going to hold it against you. From the PR wire:
IRON JINN Signs With Stickman Records; Debut Album Coming April 2023 – First Single Out Now!
Stickman Records, label home for high class bands such as Elder, Motorpsycho, King Buffalo, Weedpecker and many more, is proud to announce a new signing: Iron Jinn from Amsterdam. Iron Jinn are Oeds Beydals (The Devil’s Blood, Death Alley), Wout Kemkens (Shaking Godspeed, De Niemanders), Bob Hogenelst (Birth of Joy) and Gerben Bielderman (Pauw). Their self-titled debut is a frantic album that follows the logic of a dream: none. The nine songs are the result of a chaotic accumulation of modern world impressions, information and conversations that are forcefully pushed through a human funnel: the minds of Oeds and Wout.
Iron Jinn sounds downright exciting. The voices of Wout and Oeds reverberate passionately over mesmerizing grooves and pure melodies and harmonies. A rare combination in contemporary (rock) music. Guitarists/songwriters Oeds and Wout crossed paths for several years whilst playing in Death Alley and Shaking Godspeed. Finding common ground in challenging the status quo in heavy rock music, their first real get-together birthed a festival: the all-nighter Last Night On Earth. For their second collaboration they took to the Roadburn 2018 stage and performed new original material as Iron Jinn (then spelled ‘Iron Chin’). After their Roadburn live debut they kept on writing, teamed up with longtime friend and powerhouse drummer Bob and commenced the recordings for this debut album in the spring of 2021. After that Gerben was added to the band’s line-up.
Soft Healers is the new single from the album, and it’s now streaming HERE: https://bfan.link/soft-healers
Wout Kemkens explains: “When we wrote Soft Healers, the nasty throbbing sensation of the music drove me towards the old Dutch saying, ‘soft healers cause stinking wounds’. The song also deals literally with the physical side of thoughts and actions: matter over mind, a reversal of the popular modern world catchphrase. Humans can be great tricksters, but it’s hard to outsmart some realities, I guess. You cannot always place will above matter, something we love to do.”
Rolf Gustavus (Stickman Records): ‘As a rule, we at Stickman Records don’t just sign bands out of the blue, but rules are made to be broken. We are always looking for that indefinable quality in the bands we work with, a unique spark that we feel sets our label apart from the pack. When we heard the first song “Winding World” we already knew this was a special record and a rare band that would fit our roster perfectly.’
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