THE LAST FELONY (Eng.)

– Hi Seb, first off thanks for taking the time. I would like to start the interview doing a history of the band if you don’t mind…
Our drummer and singer both used to play guitar in a punk/metal band, and they eventually decided to play more brutal music. Their drummer couldn’t handle it so Vince
dropped guitar and started playing drums. They got Dom as a new guitarist, played a couple of shows, recorded a demo, and then their singer left to go sing for Ion
Dissonance, so Joss switched from Guitars to vocals and recruited Felix as a new guitarist, and their bassist left which is where I come in. This line up recorded both\
our albums, but Felix had to leave a few months ago because of health, so we now have Max from UNFALLEN as a guitar player.

– You’re currently on tour with GRAVE, MISERY INDEX, ARSIS and THE ROTTED. How’s the tour doing so far?
The tour is going great. It’s our first time playing outside of Canada so we’re discovering all these countries for the first time, and making a name for ourselves with
our trademark intensity on stage.

– And what are your expectations? I guess this may be a good chance to open to a broader public
and get more fame, especially in Europe…
We had no expecations other than playing new places and for new people. It’s a good thing to play for a whole audiance that has never seen you before because they don’t
know what to expect, it’s easier to take them by suprise!

– Has signing with an European label such as Lifeforce Records helped you in that way?
Very much so, I don’t think we’d be here right now without the help of Lifeforce records. It’s been awesome to meet members of the Lifeforce team in person rather than
talking by email

– And by the way, are you feeling comfortable working with them?
This is probably the best working relationship I’ve ever had with a label. Also, it’s a whole team, we work with them, Fresno media, Avocado booking, and everyone is
behind us 100%. It’s a great feeling to have so many people backing you up when you’re use to doing everything yourself.

– Beside this tour, you recently did some shows in Canada (with MISERY INDEX too) at the DESPISED ICON’s farewell tour, what did that mean to you?
It was great because we knew both bands beforehand, having toured with Misery Index a year earlier, and we’ve known the Despised Icon guys before they were Despised Icon.
The turn outs were great, and it was cool to see that a lot of fans were awaiting our peformance with anticipations and that a good handful of them had already seen us before
when we toured the country with Carnifex

– When I listened to your new album I found some elements that reminded me to DESPISED ICON. Have they been an influence for the band?
Well D.I. pretty much started a whole new scene, and it’s something you could never possibly completely ignore. But we see ourselves more as a merger of the old schoold
death metal with some newer elements than a deathcore band. Most old school bands have a hatred for anything new, which isn’t the way we do it, but we never wanted to
be a deathcore band.

– You have recently released your second full-length album, “Too Many Humans”, a hard hitting name without any doubt. How do you think it represents THE LAST FELONY’s music?
The title, like the music, is about an almost over-the-top brutality and unrelentingness. We wanted the album to be as fast and brutal as possible, to they point where
it might just be too much, and the lyrics, titles and concepts all follow the same pattern. We wanted people to read everything, hear the music, and say «Damn is it even
possible for one band to hate everyone and everything with such intensity?»

– The album has been out since a few months ago. How has been its feedback so far? Both from fans and press.
Great feedback fromt he fans, the press has been split on it, the album was designed to be short, intense and in some ways overly suffocating and dense. Some people
see that as a great thing, others don’t agree. But we don’t care, we do what we want to do, and the feedback from the fans means a lot mroe than anything in the press

–  And what do you think it differences this from your previous album? I think I could noticed a more elaborated sound and more well cared compositions…
When we wrote Aeon of Suffering, we were still seeking our sound. It’s not like we had written tons of material before, released demos and and splits, or threw away 10
compositions, that album is our first songs we wrote as a whole band, and our first attempt to find our sound. I think things really came together towards the end of
the composition process with songs like Starving Your Apathy and A Cathedral Of Flesh & Fluids. So when we started writting the new album, we already knew exactly what
we wanted to sound like, and what things we wanted to avoid, so this album is a lot more focused. We just exploited the sound we had managed to create ourselves through
the writting process of the first album

– Could you please talk us a bit about the whole composition process for the album? For example, are new all the tracks on it? I remember hearing “Quandary” long time ago.
In between the 2 albums, we recorded the first 2 new tracks we had written, Quandary and the title song, and released them on the net and printed about 100 promo copies.
This is what we used to get our deal with Lifeforce records. So that song is still a new song compared to the stuff on Aeon… but it’s the first new track we wrote.

– One of the most different songs in this album is the last one, “Water Cooler Suicide”, since it has a bigger Black Metal “vibe”. Is this way is the last one? Tell us a bit about this track.
Before I had written the lyrics for this song, we simply referred to it as «The Black Metal Song». Now I’m not 100% sure if we set out to write it that way, our if it
just kind of came out that way, but as soona s it was finished it was obvious to us that it showcased our black metal influences much more heavily than any other track.
It’s not really the reason it’s the last track though, that has more to do with how the last riff ends, with that low chord just ringing out which is perfect to end the album
and the lyrics that we chose to put on the song, which I had already decided should be the lyrics of the final track, lyrically it’s the 2nd part of the «He Hung Himself
In A Public Bathroom» series, the first being the song right before called Televisionary. That one was also written in a very different perspective, we called it the slow
song, and we just wanted to end with these 2 tracks that showcased another side of our sound, and told this gruesome story of a public suicide and it’s effects on society

– How’s the extreme Metal scene like in you country? It seems like there’s a growing scene in Canada…
The scene is getting better and better, a lot of new bands coming out of quebec like Unfallen, Depths Of Hatred and Beheading Of A King, and other provinces are starting
to have a bigger and bigger fanbase. Canada is jsut a huge country with a small population so the long drives makes it a big hard to tour.

– In a few days you’ll stop by in Spain, what will we fi
nd on stage in we’re going to see you guys?
Uncomprimsed intensity and a balls-out attitude. We came here to make a name for ourselves and we will stop at nothing to make sure we have an impact on the spanish crowds

– And what would you say to push people to go see you live?
Regardless of what you think of our music, I can garantee you will not see another band that spends as much energy trying to entertain you as we do!

– Finally, how does the future look for THE LAST FELONY?
Looks bright, 2 more weeks in europe, other tours in the work, and recording for album number 3 midway through 2011

– That’s all, thank you once more for your time and see you soon. If you want to add any final words, feel free to do it.
Thanks for the interview, can’t wait to play in your beautiful country!