New label and new album for Deserted Fear!
Three years after their last release, Manuel Glatter (vocals/guitar), Fabian Hildebrandt (guitar/bass) and Simon Mengs (drums) sign with Testimony Records and unveil their sixth album, Veins of Fire.
Into the Burning Lands opens with epic sounds, but the composition soon gives way to the violence of double kick, furious howling and catchy jerky rhythm. The melodies return on the choruses before moving on to The Truth, where they quickly become heady, perfectly accompanying the musicians’ more aggressive approach before a finale directly inspired by the Swedish scene. Blind envelops us in a melancholic, dissonant darkness before unveiling its motivating march, finally blending the two elements to create an intoxicating sound before the final acceleration that leads to Storm of Resistance and its soothing harmonics that create a contrast with the rawer base. We’re off again at full speed with Embrace the Void and its lively riffs that turn into a dissonant haze but return to make the choruses playful in contrast to the heavy break, but we discover a thicker sound again with Rise and Fight. The track is just as vindictive, borrowing its groovy touches from Death/Thrash, before returning to more modern sounds on At the End of Our Reign, leaning ever more towards Metalcore with imposing passages. Echoes in the Silence continues in this vein, unveiling persistent leads that perfectly accompany the solid base before developing a highly effective jerky approach on We Are One, which should easily demonstrate its full power live, and then it’s finally the eponymous Veins of Fire that puts the finishing touches to a majestic sound fuelled by intense guitars right up to the last second.
The Swedish scene’s influences are now more than present in Deserted Fear, which does not shy away from a few more modern flights of fancy. Veins of Fire remains in line with the band’s evolution, and is sure to be emulated.
85/100