ENDLESS FLOODS share new track off upcoming album "Passages"!

Bordeaux, France post-heavy alchemists ENDLESS FLOODS present the first track off their upcoming fourth studio album "Passages", and announce May 22nd as the new release date on Permafrost Records, Araki Records and Yoyodyne Records.

While their latest album Rites Futurs introduced the theme of transformation through rites of passage, Passages plunges into it and suffocates. The four songs alternately evoke the in-between worlds, the present and the distant past, the sacrifices of a bygone era ("Visions)", moving from the collective wandering of a landscape of constrained structures ("Deuxième monde") to the individual narrative haunted by our own ghosts ("Liminal"), finally surrendering to "Primordial". Passages is a transitional object between two states of mind, a tool for drawing a common future.

Endless Floods have made a hallmark of constant evolution, their sound deepening and expanding with remarkable consistency with each album. Ranging across post-rock, progressive doom and dark folk, Passages ushers in a new era of songwriting: an interplay of metallic weight and soaring atmospherics, where melancholic beauty is woven through ethereal male-female vocal harmonies and gripping, epic riffs.

About the song "Deuxième Monde", they say: "‘It describes a parallel universe filled with gigantic structures where rites of passage unfold in blood and fire. The track opens with Bathory’s goat standing atop the highest temple of the Nightosphere, leading to a sacrificial ritual on a worldwide scale. At the heart of the ceremony comes a slow-motion scene of chaos, where nearly smiling, calm faces can be seen despite the surrounding violence. Finally, the perspective rises: immense gateways between worlds open and swallow those who choose to cross the threshold. In the end, all that remains is a sense of bliss — a period of peace until the next rite beneath a long late-summer sunset over reddish ruins.’

The album was recorded by Thibault Laisney and Stéphane Miollan, mixed by Stéphane Miollan in Bordeaux, with mastering by Ben Jones. Endless Floods is a shifting structure whose current members are Louise Dehaye, Benjamin Sablon, Stéphane Miollan, and Xavier Godart.

Bordeaux, France's heavy alchemists Endless Floods formed in 2015 in Bordeaux around Stéphane Miollan (ex-Monarch, Bombardement, Faucheuse), Benjamin Sablon (ex-Monarch, Bombardement, Shock, Mégot) and Simon Bédy. Their first outings raised a prodigiously dense wall of sound by blending drone and doom metal aesthetics with mind-expanding ambient structures, like a sorrowful procession arising from the limbo.

The trio released their self-titled debut in 2015, followed by their sophomore album “II” in the winter of 2017. This drone-sounding assault saw the band sinking deeper into bleakness and minimalism, immersing the listener in a monolithic and feedback-laden sonic experience described by the press as “a vast, never-ending room of heavy” (Cvlt Nation), “a juggernaut of sonic grandeur” (Metal Nexus) or simply “sublime” by Pure Grain Audio. Their third album "Circle The Gold” epitomized a fresh start in their creative process: between chaos and light, the Bordeaux trio transcended genre boundaries while unveiling a more melodic and cathartic aspect of their music.

After a five-year hiatus, Endless Floods returned with a new lineup and their fourth record "Rites Futurs" in the summer of 2024, revealing in a prodigious blaze of post-metal, doom and shoegaze for an overall gripping aural experience.

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ENDLESS FLOODS "Passages"
Out May 22nd on Permafrost Records
Araki Records and Yoyodyne Records

Endless Floods lineup on "Passages"
Louise Dehaye – vocals, saxophone
Benjamin Sablon – drums, synthesizers, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, vocals, percussion
Stéphane Miollan – bass, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, vocals, synthesizers

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