Hello and happy Friday headbangers and artisan brew fans! The Meista here today pairing Black Sabbath's first live album, the double-album "Live Evil" and a very delicious, award-winning Vanilla Bean Mexican Chocolate Stout from Copper Kettle Brewing Company! (HEAVEN AND) HELL YES!!
Album Info:
- Artist: Black Sabbath
- Title: "Live Evil"
- Recorded: April 23rd through 24th and May 12th through 13th, 1982 in Seattle, Dallas, and San Antonio during the Mob Rules Tour
- Release date: December 1982 (1st official live Black Sabbath album)
- Record company: Warner Bros. Records
- Production: Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler
- Album cover art: Stan Watts
- Personnel: Vinny Appice (drums), Geezer Butler (bass), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), and Tony Iommi (guitar)
- Additional musicians: Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)
- Musical style: Heavy metal, doom metal
- Sound: One of my all-time favorite live albums, the sound on "Live Evil" is wonderfully rich, powerful, and full of electrifying energy! The set list is fantastic... a perfect mix of Ozzy-era and Dio-era Sabbath. And the band is tight, aggressive, and on the top of their game! Of the sound and tour, Dio once stated, ""It was an excellent tour. I think we were probably riding quite high on the Heaven and Hell success, and so we ended up playing really, really well. Even towards the end the shows were still great."
- Major themes: Power and might, good vs. evil, darkness, the occult, death, war, revenge, , etc.
- Interesting side note: In his autobiography, Tony Iommi tells of band's live shows during this period. They used "lots of pyro with fire and bombs" and while playing at the Hammersmith Odeon in England, the bombs were being tested and "blew a two-foot-wide hole in the floor on my side. If I'd been there, I would have been blown up. Christ, it was dangerous." He also admits that the band had to cancel a show at Madison Square Garden when the bombs blew out the tubes in all the amps during the first note of the first song "War Pigs"!
- Tracks:
- "E5150"
- "Neon Knights"
- "N.I.B."
- "Children Of The Sea"
- "Voodoo"
- "Black Sabbath"
- "War Pigs"
- "Iron Man"
- "The Mob Rules"
- "Heaven And Hell"
- "The Sign Of The Southern Cross/Heaven And Hell (Continued)"
- "Paranoid"
- "Children Of The Grave"
- "Fluff"
Brew Info:
- Brewery: Copper Kettle Brewing Company (Denver, Colorado)
- Website: http://www.copperkettledenver.com/
- Brew: Vanilla Bean Mexican Chocolate Stout
- Style: Imperial Stout
- Serving: 22 ounce bottle
- ABV: 7.0%
- IBUs: 50
- Ingredients: 3 Mexican chili peppers, vanilla bean, and cinnamon
- Pour: The Vanilla Bean Mexican Chocolate Stout pours a very dark, deep (almost ink black) brown with a thin, yet creamy and thick mocha head that dissipates to a thin film with spotty lacing.
- Nose: The nose is roasty, toasty, chocolaty, sweet, and spicy. There are aromas of cocoa, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, dark roasted malts, vanilla bean, cinnamon, caramel, and
- Taste: The taste of the Vanilla Bean Mexican Chocolate Stout is . There are notes of dark roasted malts, bittersweet chocolate, Mexican hot chocolate, light sweet vanilla, fresh cream, marshmallow, burnt toffee, loads of cinnamon and some lovey chili pepper heat that builds throughout.
- Mouthfeel: Full-bodied with low carbonation, the mouthfeel is very thick, very smooth, very creamy, yet dry and spicy with a dry, semi-sweet, slightly bitter, and spicy finish.
Overall pairing: Those big, bold, and rich chocolate and spice tones of the Vanilla Bean Mexican Chocolate Stout from Copper Kettle Brewing Company are perfect for the massive sound, depth of songwriting, and musical prowess of the mighty Sabbath boys! The boldness and complexity of the brew is a wonderful companion the power of each member of Black Sabbath and their amazing live performance from "Live Evil"!
Cheers and hails!!
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