Veins of Fire marks the sixth full-length release from German death metal outfit Deserted Fear. While the band’s early work leaned heavily on traditional death metal foundations, their more recent albums have gradually embraced a melodic death metal direction. This evolution continues here, with a sound that is distinctly guitardriven, packed with thick, groovy riffs and elevated by well-crafted harmonies that clearly draw inspiration from the earlytomid ’90s Gothenburg...

I’ve read a few early reviews of this album and most of them weren’t exactly positive, so I guess I approached it with a bit of skepticism just to discover that I disagreed with most of what has been written about it. Ok, originality and innovation aren’t the first words that comes to my mind when thinking about ‘Drowned By Humanity’, but in my opinion lack of those ingredients...