Black Mayonnaise: Noun...
1. A toxic sludge found at the bottom of harbors and bays, often extending for miles
into the ocean, consisting of decayed sediment, sewage, and petrochemical waste.
First discovered occurrence: 1978, Atlantic Seaboard
Black Mayonnaise: Verb...
2. A sludge/drone doom bedroom-in-an-apartment act, known for its brutal,
torturous, haranguing, miserable, and absolutely crushing effects.
First discovered occurrence: 1991, Ohio
"Tampa’s breeding-ground had an established template. If you were a band in the 1990s you followed this order: Singer, guitar, bass and drums. The slight variation being the additional guitar player. The Tampa death metal renascence was aggressively moving forward and all the bands practiced this orthodoxy. Then there was this dark, icy, mechanized vibration called Paineater. Mark Odechuck and Bob White effectively wiped this template clean. They made the choice to throw out this old formula in order to arrive at something less human. Literally. Mark and Bob show up accompanied by only a bass guitar and drum machine and proceed to crush. The drum machine and bass mournfully orbited one another. Mark paced back and fourth growling about the after-stench of a fallen world. It was unusual. Not because of the body-count but how massive Paineaters sound was.Paineater definitely lit my path towards electronic music. A hardcore punk listener at the time, no other band could have introduced the stiffly quantised sounds of a drum machine to me - the sheer noise, darkness and intensity moved towards a new orthodoxy."
