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DESERTED FEAR “Veins of Fire”
DESERTED FEAR “Veins of Fire”
By Theron Moore
Germany’s DESERTED FEAR have a new record out titled “Veins Of Fire” via Testimony Records marking album number six for this East German “death metal” trio. The lyrical themes on this record deal with the seemingly downward spiral humanity has fallen into with the hope that we can somehow course correct before reaching the point of no return. Musically the record is anything BUT death metal.
I’ll get right to it. I find this album a little to preachy for my own personal taste, and whatever style of heavy music DESERTED FEAR is playing doesn’t work for me. So right off the bat this album has two strikes against it and little hope for redemption. All the songs are mid-tempo, lack anything death metal related, and in general, lack any kind of teeth and bite to them. There’s a certain sense of gloom and doom to each track but even then, not enough to move into doom metal territory.
I can’t figure out who DESERTED FEAR is with ‘Veins Of Fire.’ Are they death metal, are they thrash, are they doom? A lot of question marks with no answers here. On a positive note, the music’s not awful and thankfully the vocals match the band’s sound. I think if someone queued up “Veins Of Fire” for you to listen to, and you had no idea who they were, you might like them, but again that goes back to their identity problem. If there was a new sub-genre of heavy music, I’d be tempted to call them “Nu-Death”, that tag seems to better describe what you’re listening to versus traditional death metal we’re all familiar with.
Without bagging on this band any further I’ll say this and leave it alone. Nu-Metal doesn’t do it for me so “Nu-Death” is a non-starter too. Stream it, listen to it, you decide. This isn’t for me, and I don’t recommend it.
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