Best Metal Album

Melancholy songs are nothing new to Nashville. But while many artists are looking for the tear in their beer, Horizonless, the second album by funeral-doom leviathan Loss, is a peek into the darkest chasms of human suffering. The album, recorded with dirge-metal Zen master Billy Anderson (Sleep, Neurosis, Melvins) at Welcome to 1979, shows the band expanding the soundscape of their micro-genre beyond the confines of metal itself, taking the more melodic elements of extreme music and slowing it down nearly to a dead stop. Each track is inhumanly patient, unafraid to withhold the payoff, reaching for the sublime within its own grief and finding lush melodies within the dissonance. Horizonless is a masterwork of underground metal. P.J. KINZER

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