Endless Floods remind you to take your courage in both hands, and fight to reach the next stage on your way to healing.
Endless Floods – Passages
Album | 22/05/2026 | Permafrost / Araki Records / Yoyodyne Records
37:43 | 4 tracks | Vinyl / Digial
Post Rock / Progressive Doom Metal
Bordeaux, France
The Fifth Torrent
When Benjamin Sablon and Stéphane Miollan founded Endless Floods in 2015, the first output by the band was mostly coined by a mix of drone and doom metal. Over the following years, three longplayers and a split with Uur were released. Then, after a hiatus of half a decade, Endless Floods rose like phoenix from the ashes with their fourth album Rites Futurs. And now, almost two years later, the second album featuring vocalist Louise Dehaye has been released. Passages is the continuation of Endless Floods‘ new path out of chaos, and into the light. The four-track longplayer is available via three labels, and it deals with liminal states and transformation.
Dreams of the Second World
With darkness, uncertainty, and insecurity in the back, Passages describes the path onwards and upwards. You can tell it is a complicated and weary march defined by hardships and deprivation. Yet, the goal is clear, and thus, there is no turning back or giving up. Endless Floods have created a versatile and thrilling narrative here. Chaotic and desolate memories frequently return via dark and heavy motifs while rays of light and beacons of hope coin major parts of the album’s arc of suspense. It feels like, Endless Floods remind you to take your courage in both hands, and fight to reach the next stage on your way to healing.
Sonic Visualistion of Empowerment
Together with its predecessor Rites Futurs, the new album Passages feels like the musical realisation of a survival plot. Marching through dark spheres of post metal, doomgaze or related genres, a namesless protagonist fights their way out of the overwhelming darkness again and again. And you can tell by the encouraging and empowering motifs and by the clear chants that these cyclical struggles are being rewarded with small successes. Those who have ever battled with inner demons, with the cold and dark of our post-modern world, or with mental health issues will be able to relate. Therefore, the structure of Passages is what makes the album so beautiful. Passages is the dark and heavy score for a liminal state, for a stage of healing which allows the protagonist to breathe freely for the first time after a long time.
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