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n. (plural of flood English)
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"Floods" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill. It is the longest song on the album, and the third longest song the band has ever recorded, after " Cemetery Gates" (7:02), and "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" (7:01).
"Floods" is the fourth single from Fightstar's second studio album, One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. It was originally intended to be released as the second single, however this was changed to " We Apologise For Nothing" due to the recent floods in the UK at that time.
Charlie Simpson has stated the song deals more with environmental issues, such as global warming and climate change, and about how people have influenced their own downfall within it. The song was released on their MySpace on 14 January 2008.
In a question and answer session in September 2007, both Charlie and Alex confirmed that the third single from the album would most likely be Floods. Eventually, it was, in fact, " Deathcar" released on 3 December 2007. However during another Q and A session on the band's official forums on 28 November 2007, Alex confirmed they were worked,on new tracks to be possibly used as part of a EP for the "Floods" release.
It was confirmed via the band's official website and Myspace, that "Floods" would be released as the latest single on 3 March 2008. It reached No.2 on the UK Rock Chart, and No.3 in the UK Indie Chart, but failed to chart in the UK Singles Chart.
The release included three brand new b-sides, "Flotation Therapy", "Zihuatanejo" and "Dark Star" (released exclusively on the Gut Records digital download bundle).
Usage examples of "floods".
Coming complete with giants and floods, these traditions were eerily similar to those of the far-off Andean region.
However, when I remembered the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere in Mexican mythology, and the equally obsessive concern with forecasting future events evident in the Maya calendar, I felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched conclusions of the American engineer.
Quite frequently, also, at least two different kinds of disaster may be portrayed as having occurred simultaneously (most frequently floods and earthquakes, but sometimes fire and a terrifying darkness).
Meanwhile, what are we to conclude about the apocalyptic visions of fire and ice, floods, volcanism and earthquakes, which the myths contain?
Perhaps this is why so many of their myths speak with such conviction of fire and floods and times of darkness and of the creation and destruction of Suns.
Indeed, as we saw in Part IV, it was the epoch of dramatic climate shifts, rapidly rising sea levels, earth movements, floods, volcanic eruptions, bituminous rains and darkened skies that was the most probable source of many of the great worldwide myths of universal cataclysm.
And silt collection systems, so that the soil the floods used to carry down here would still reach the basin and renew its topsoil.
In her mind churned images of the previous year's catastrophic floods in the northeastern sections of the Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog had come in.
You remember the floods last monsoon on the Indian continent and that major shake in Azerbaijan?
Her parents died in the floods in Bangladesh, oh, five or so years ago now.
The sea would lash waves into floods over the ledge and he'd have to bring Delky inside with him.
There was a little here, some over there, but the spring floods had not yet broken loose, and it was all a stagnant muddy brown.
Vast floods began to sweep emerging areas and kept them swamp-like, rising and falling in the agonies of a birth that had not yet materialized.
She did both the planning and the execution, and when the pile from which their lodge would be constructed was nearly finished, and she was eleven pounds lighter than when she started, he indicated for the final time that when the floods came, this would all vanish.
She made no response, for she knew that just as she had done most of the building this time, she would have to do it again if floods ever did come.