Black Mayonnaise is one of the first really weird, underground "bands" that we really got into back in the early 90's when we first began our love affair

with fucked-up heaviness. I remember ordering some sort of compilation tape of damaged punk and weird, sub-underground metal bands from an ad in Maximum Rock

And Roll years ago, a total DIY job on a dollar store TDK cassette wrapped up lovingly in a black and white xeroxed sheet of paper, filled with all sorts of

low-fi black metal hiss, 4-track noise experiments, and seriously grody grindcore blasts. But there was one band on this tape that totally jumped out at me -

Black Mayonnaise. The name conjured all sorts of grody images, and the "song" was this super heavy, industrialized blat of stuttering drum machine beats and

elastic bass riffs combined with vocals that sounded like the rumbling of an upset stomach. This was easily one of the most fucked up, extreme things I had

heard at that point in my life, a hallcinogenic combination of Godflesh grind and the sound of your body being slowly consumed by alien fungus. Turns out

that Black Mayonnaise was (and is) actually just one guy named Mike Duncan from Akron, Ohio, a one man bedroom sludge nightmare using SSLLOOWW programmed

drum machines and ultra downtuned bass guitar to record and release a crapload of cassettes and CD-rs over the past decade under the Black Mayonnaise banner.

Ttssattsr is the first proper full length release from Black Mayonnaise, and features nine tracks of gurgling, speaker-rattling, low-fi ambient

muck, or "warped lunar sludge core" as it states on the back of the CD case. The bass strings are so downtuned they flop off the instrument, banging on a

single buzzing note, as rumbling distortion swirls around it and those sort-of dubby drum machines pound away, like a DJ Screw remix of some extreme doom

band. Monstrously heavy shit, essential for slo-mo headbangers and tarpit psych freaks. Includes a cover of the Butthole Surfer's "Graveyard".