██████ - V

     Better clear about fifteen minutes out of your busy schedule, because you're going to want to let tonight's epic slow-burn run its course.

     ██████, a band whose name/logo defies pronunciation (hence the band sometimes being referred to as "nic") has recently done a split with Old Soul, and while I was previously unfamiliar with either of them, a pretty massive quarter of an hour has convinced me I need to get familiar with at least one of these acts.

     ██████'s song "V" takes blackened elements like trem-picked riffs and builds with them a monolithic slab of post-metal dirge that still retains the "ebb and flow" feel that you'd expect from post-anything. I know it's a pretty good chunk of time to commit to a single song by a band you've never heard of that uses a black bar for its name, but if epic metal with some black, doom, and death flavours tossed in is at all your cup of tea, "V" will provide you a whole pot to savour.