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Jinjer<\/a>‘s Tatiana Shmayluk<\/a> named the metal vocalist she originally wanted to sound like when she first started out \u2014 and it’s not a woman.<\/p>\n Speaking with Metal Hammer<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Shmayluk expressed her dismay\u00a0when she was asked about Jinjer being referred to as a “female-fronted band,” especially when they have little\u00a0in common with some of the groups they get lumped in with sonically.<\/p>\n “We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists and I feel very, very fucking offended by that,” Shmayluk asserted.<\/p>\n “Because some people, they cannot sing, they don\u2019t hit the notes! Then I get people saying, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s doing better than you, she does it better than you, she has this personality, she has…\u2019 Oh my god! Leave me alone! That kind of stuff really pisses me off.\u201d<\/p>\n The vocalist revealed that when she first started making music, she wanted to emulate Lamb of God<\/a>‘s Randy Blythe<\/a>, not a woman. She claims that she’s often compared to former Arch Enemy<\/a> singers Angela Gossow<\/a> and Alissa White-Gluz<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I never wanted to sound like [Gossow]. Some people told me, \u2018Why don\u2019t you color your hair? Why don\u2019t you dye your hair blue like Alissa?\u2019 But why would I? I don\u2019t get it,” Shmayluk continued.<\/p>\n During an episode of our\u00a0<\/a>How I Learned to Scream<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>series, Shmayluk recalled the first time she heard a woman with extreme vocals \u2014\u00a0Otep Shamaya<\/a> \u2014 although she initially thought it was a man’s voice she’d heard.<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘Oh my god I like this dude’s attitude’ and my friend was like, ‘No Tati, it’s a girl.’ I was like, ‘Are you serious?'” she said. “I was like, ‘Yeah that’s what I want to do.'”<\/p>\n Discovering Otep led Shmayluk to find other metal artists with extreme vocals and she eventually decided to attempt them herself. The first song she practiced was Mudvayne<\/a>‘s “Dig” and admitted she was disappointed in how she sounded at first.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a010 Vocalists Who Sound Like Classic Movie Monsters + Villains<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “You sometimes can tell that it’s a woman screaming and that’s what I didn’t want to hear about myself. I tried to imitate a more male version of screaming and growling,” she admitted.<\/p>\n Once she started practicing the vocal technique with her pre-Jinjer bands, she found her sound.<\/p>\n Check out the interview below and see which Jinjer song made our Best Metal Songs of the Last 25 Years list below that.<\/p>\n So much metal, so many subgenres, but these songs stood out above the crowd in furthering heavy music over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n Contributions by Jordan Blum (JB), Chad Childers (CC), Joe DiVita (JD), John Hill (JH) and Lauryn Schaffner (LS).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Loudwire Staff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow Did Tatiana Shmayluk Learn to Scream?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
How Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk Learned to\u00a0<\/strong>Scream<\/b><\/h3>\n
The 25 Best Metal Songs of the Last 25 Years (2000-2024)<\/h2>\n