Flood (born 16 August 1960) is the professional pseudonym of British
post-punk and
alternative rock record producer and
audio engineer Mark Ellis. Flood's list of work includes projects with recording acts like
New Order,
U2,
Nine Inch Nails,
Depeche Mode,
Gary Numan,
Ministry,
Thirty Seconds to Mars,
Erasure,
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
PJ Harvey,
A-Ha,
Sigur Rós,
The Smashing Pumpkins,
The Killers, and
Warpaint. His co-production collaborations have included projects with
Brian Eno,
Daniel Lanois,
Steve Lillywhite, and longtime collaborator
Alan Moulder, with whom he co-founded the Assault & Battery studio complex. In 2006, his work with U2 led to his sharing of the
Grammy Award for Album of the Year for
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.