Band: The Last Felony
Title: Too Many Humans
Label: Lifeforce Records
Distribution: Suburban
Release date: October 1st 2010
Review: CD

One of the most underestimated countries when it comes to Death Metal is probably Canada. Some bands are fairly known outside its borders (Kataklysm, Beneath The Massacre, Cryptopsy, Neuraxis, Despised Icon etc), but several are really worth listening to, but too much underappreciated or unknown in Europe.
Such an example: The Last Felony. Their 2008-debut Aeon Of Suffering (Galy Records) didn’t really reach a (deserved) audience outside Canada. But… Since The Last Felony signed to Lifeforce, it will probably, hopefully, make a difference.

Too Many Humans was produced, mixed and engineered by Chris Donaldson (Neuraxis, Cryptopsy etc) and goes mercilessly on in the vein of Aeon Of Suffering. The result is a cute 32:32 minutes attack on your ear drums.

The tracks are not meant to entertain geriatric patients or people who suffer a heart failure, believe me. Every song brings a grooving and ultra-heavy symbiosis of rhythmic Deathcore and somewhat old school-oriented darkened Death Metal. The main tempo differs between fast and blasting, which makes this album, as well as the hammering sound does, extremely overpowering and grindingly psychotic. The members perform with a technical skilled grandeur; the quintet sounds very experienced and cohesive, even though The Last Felony were formed just five years ago (2005).
However, the whole does not sound like an early nineties recording. In spite of the old school approach, Too Many Humans has a refreshing breath at the same time.
Too Many Humans might be one of the harshest, yet one of the most intriguing albums from Canada this year. It isn’t the best Canadian album in Death Metal’s history (at all), yet it is a must for every adept of extreme and morbid Death Schizophrenia.

And a title as ‘too many humans’, well… I can only agree. Much too many…

82/100

Ivan Tibos.