Bordeaux, France's doom metal experimentalists ENDLESS FLOODS return after five years with their fourth studio album "Rites Futurs", to be issued on July 12th through Breathe Plastic Records. Stream the new single "Décennie" now!
It's a new era for ENDLESS FLOODS. Between consecutive lockdowns and various other musical projects, it took the band two years to complete "Rites Futurs". Now reunited around vocalist Louise Dehaye, Stéphane Miollan (guitar, bass, vocals) and Benjamin Sablon (drums, synths, vocals) have spanned through the crepuscular and droney doom landscapes of their first three records to reveal in a prodigious blaze of post-metal, doom and shoegaze driven by the aerial choirs of the three musicians.
About the new album "Rites Futurs", the band comments: "On Rites Futurs, we built a mythology around the idea of the rite of passage. The five tracks symbolize this tipping point into the unknown by evoking ancient traditions where fires extinguished everything in their path."
The album was recorded and mixed by Thibault Laisney at a/b box studio (Lestiac, France) and mastered by Ben Jones. Cover art and graphic design by Louise Dehaye. The album will be released this July 12th on cassette tape via Breathe Plastic Records, as well as on all digital streaming services.
ENDLESS FLOODS "Rites Futurs"
Out July 12th on Breathe Plastic Records (CD/digital) - Preorder
TRACKLIST:
1. L'Éclair
2. Décennie
3. Forge
4. Muraille
5. Rites Futurs
Bordeaux, France's doom metal experimentalists ENDLESS FLOOD formed in 2015 in Bordeaux around Stéphane Miollan (ex-Monarch, Bombardement, Faucheuse), Benjamin Sablon (ex-Monarch, Bombardement, Shock, Mégot) et Simon Bédy. With "no boundaries in heaviness" as a motto, they raise 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, quickly 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 years hiatus, ENDLESS FLOODS now returns with a new lineup and their fourth record "Rites Futurs", to be released in July 2024.
ENDLESS FLOODS on "Rites Futurs"
Benjamin Sablon - Drums, percussions, synths, vocals
Louise Dehaye - Vocals
Stéphane Miollan - Guitars, bass, vocals
Thibault Laisney - Additionnal guitars
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