Floods (Pantera song)
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| "Floods" | |
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| Promotional single by Pantera | |
| from the album The Great Southern Trendkill | |
| Released | May 22, 1996 |
| Recorded | 1995–1996 |
| Genre | Heavy metal[1] |
| Length | 7:00 |
| Label | East West |
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| Producer(s) | |
"Floods" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill. A ballad, it is the longest song on the album and the third-longest song the band has recorded, after "Cemetery Gates" (7:03) and "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" (7:01). An early mix of the song was released on the 20th anniversary edition of The Great Southern Trendkill.[2]
Pantera bassist Rex Brown said about "Floods":
That was one of my favorite bass lines on that song. We'd rehearsed it a couple of times and Dime and I sat down for quite a while with that. It was more of trying to get yourself in a mellow mood. It's a blazing solo with a really cool rhythm section underneath it - I'm really proud of the bass line. I think that was Dime's favorite solo on that song.[3]
The lyrics of the song tell about atrocious acts committed by mankind such as rape, murder, and war, and contain a plea to God to flood the earth in a fashion like that described in the biblical Book of Genesis.
