Loss

A funereal doom metal quartet based out of Nashville, Tennessee, the aptly named Loss specialize in torpid, grief-stricken black metal, and cite "depression, anxiety, failure, illness, disease, despair, pain, and fear" as influences. Formed in 2003 around the talents of vocalist/guitarist Mike Meacham, drummer Jay LeMaire, guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:3JEFursGA74y8fu9WA8U0X">Tim Lewis</a>, and bassist John Anderson, the quartet released their debut album, Life Without Hope...Death Without Reason, in 2005 via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Deathgasm+Records%22">Deathgasm Records</a>. A split 12" LP with German metallers <a href="spotify:artist:753CHVyap5Skz6mR34MwnD">Necros Christos</a> arrived that same year, as did a very limited split 7" with French/German outfit <a href="spotify:artist:6HYVC0sJVnVnsVmuH0Ofre">Worship</a>. Four Burials, a split-EP with <a href="spotify:artist:3HZQm7muBa4Ho0p8K9X82M">Mournful Congregation</a>, Otesanek, and <a href="spotify:artist:0DkKBTgWxBnvYsOXDaoTVP">Orthodox</a>, dropped in 2008, followed in 2011 by the full-length Despond, which was released via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Profound+Lore%22">Profound Lore</a>. 2014's split LP A View from the Rope saw the band sharing duties with Finnish death metal troupe <a href="spotify:artist:10mjw8SFRZjS0d8tecdEW8">Hooded Menace</a>, and in 2017 they returned with another <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Profound+Lore%22">Profound Lore</a>-issued full-length outing, Horizonless. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi