This is the first ever vinyl release for Black Mayonnaise, a project which dates back to almost 20 years ago now. The album consists of three long pieces of drum-machine doom metal. Usually when I think of drum-machine metal, I think of the type of grindcore stuff on Relapse's "Drum Machine Gun" comp (which Black Mayonnaise has a track on). Here, however, the tempos are turned down, vocals are completely absent, and there's plenty of dark, creepy atmospherics.

"Radiation" takes up all of the first side of the lime-green LP. It starts out with dark, growly guitars and slow beats, and gradually some synths and scrambled alien frequency noises crawl in and take over until the beats and guitars disappear, only to reappear before the end of the song. The mood doesn't change at all throughout the piece, but somehow when it ends you feel like some sort of process has taken place, like the aliens have stunned you and installed something inside your brain.

Side B starts with "The Drunken Stupor Of The Waking World", and it's all swirling, spacey synths and the occasional echoed kick drum. Things get even more evil with the final piece, "Our Senses Are Mysteries To Us, And We Are Mysteries To Ourselves", which brings back some doom guitar and piles on even more atmospherics, including what sounds like bubbling water. Completely out of nowhere, the piece ends with some bluesy slide guitar, bringing an evil journey in space crashing back to earth. 8/10 -- Paul Simpson (2 February, 2010)