French post-heavy alchemists Endless Floods returns with new album »Passages« on May 8th; first excerpt streaming!
Bordeaux, France based doom metal experimentalists Endless Floods will release their fourth full-length album »Passages« on May 8th, 2026.
Listen to an excerpt of the track »Deuxième monde« below!
Tracklist:
01. Visions
02. Deuxième monde
03. Liminal
04. Primordial
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Bordeaux, France post-heavy alchemists Endless Floods announce the release of their fourth studio album »Passages« this May 8th, and present a soaring short excerpt today with »Deuxième monde«.
🌘 Stream an excerpt of the track »Deuxième monde« at this location 🌘
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 vocal harmonies and gripping, epic riffs.
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 members, at the time of recording this album, are: Louise Dehaye, Benjamin Sablon, Stéphane Miollan, and Xavier Godart.
New album »Passages« out May 8th on Permafrost Records, Araki Records and Yoyodyne Records
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.
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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