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Iron Jinn

Iron Jinn are Oeds Beydals (The Devil’s Blood/Molassess/Death Alley), Wout Kemkens (Shaking Godspeed/De
Niemanders), Bob Hogenelst (Birth of Joy/Molassess) and Gerben Bielderman (Pauw) and their debut full length
on Stickman Records (21st of April 2023) is a frantic album that follows the logic of a dream; none.
The nine songs on the album 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 Beydals and Wout
Kemkens. The album took shape against the background noise of shifting paradigms, universal cramps,
massages of the primal brain, plays full of mad lines, and it hesitantly kisses the underbelly that got fed oh so
well. The band and the music itself 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.

Iron Jinn is an album on the edge of reality, fantasy and dream, but induced by real life events. The writing
process started amidst the cultural prohibition in may 2020, so the music and lyrical themes are certainly
influenced by the hypnosis type state of this moment in time. How the collective consciousness got taken over by
one story. How opinions and paradigms can quickly be influenced and formed. How lack of meaningful social
interactions, feelings of fear and a hunger for one big solution to a problem really can drive people into isolation
or cultlike devotion (or both). All this surfaced more than ever the last years and as songwriting scavengers Oeds
Beydals and Wout Kemkens took it all in and used it to create a piece of art that hopefully mirrors, but also
celebrates the human spirit. The album embodies the uprising of a new star and creates a much needed dot on
the horizon for both the creators and listeners.

Guitarists/songwriters Oeds Beydals and Wout Kemkens 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
Hogenelst (Birth of Joy) and commenced the recordings for this debut album in the spring of 2021 (with
producer/mixer Sebastiaan van Bijlevelt at Galloway Recording Studio, Nijmegen). After the studio Gerben
Bielderman was added to the band’s line-up. Now the record will lead them back to the stage as Iron Jinn; rise
and bloom!

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.’
The song ‘Soft Healers’. Is the first single of the album. “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. It’s hard to outsmart some realities even in a world where everything is supposedly
possible. You cannot always place will above matter, something we love to do.” – Wout Kemkens on the song
‘Soft Healers’