Good evening! The Meista here tonight rocking the hell out to a pairing of "Fortress" by Canadian progressive metal outfit Protest The Hero and a Fruit-Full Fort from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Inc.!
Album Info:
- Artist: Protest The Hero
- Title: "Fortress"
- Recorded: Summer of 2007 at Silo Studios and Metalworks Studio in Ontario, Canada
- Release date: January 29th, 2008 ( studio album by Protest The Hero)
- Record company: Underground Operations / Vagrant
- Production: Julius "Juice" Butty and Mark Spicoluk
- Album cover art: Sons Of Nero
- Personnel: Moe Carlson (drums and percussion), Luke Hoskin (guitar, piano, and backing vocals), Tim Millar (guitar and piano), Arif Mirabdolbaghi (bass and backing vocals), and Rody Walker (lead vocals)
- Additional musicians: Dan Fila (additional percussion) and Vadim Pruzhanov (keyboards on "Limb From Limb")
- Musical style: Progressive metal, metalcore, mathcore
- Sound: Complex, intricate, progressive, yet very heavy, the sound on "Fortress" combines technical progressive metal with more aggressive metalcore elements
- Major themes: Mythology, goddess worship, nature, paganism, etc. Of the album's themes, bassist and lyricist Mirabdolbaghi stated: "It has to do with goddess worship, and how there has been this degendering of the Lord and Savior, and the suppressed feminine. A lot of it is based in Genghis Khan and old Irish Mythology, about the rise and fall of the Goddess of the forest. [It] can be more appreciated by more people. If I had to reduce it to its simplest form, the concept is about the re-emerging of goddess worship and the erosion of faith in scientific process."
- Tracks:
- "Bloodmeat"
- "The Dissentience"
- "Bone Marrow"
- "Sequoia Throne"
- "Palms Read"
- "Limb From Limb"
- "Spoils"
- "Wretch"
- "Godless Bound"
- "Goddess Gagged"
Brew Info:
- Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Inc. (Milton, Delaware)
- Website: https://www.dogfish.com
- Brew: Fruit-Full Fort
- Style: Barleywine
- Serving: 12 ounce bottle
- ABV: 15.0% to 18.0%
- Ingredients: Munich malts with raspberries, blackberries, boyesenberries, and elderberries
- Pour: The Fruit-Full Fort pours an opaque, deep maroon with a thin, off-white cap that dissipates fairly quickly and leaves only trace lacing.
- Nose: The nose is fruity, tart, sweet, and boozy. There are aromas of fresh berries (raspberry and blackberry), cherries, fruit jam, red wine, caramel/toffee, and rum or bourbon.
- Taste: The taste of the Fruit-Full Fort is very fruity, malty, sweet, tart, and boozy. There are notes of fresh raspberries, blackberries, with red wine, sweet malts, toffee, and spiced rum.
- Mouthfeel: Full-bodied with low carbonation, the mouthfeel of the Fruit-Full Fort is thick, chewy, tart, and dry with a boozy finish.
Overall pairing: The Fruit-Full Fort is a very complex, intensely flavorful, and boozy brew... perfect for the intricate song structure and musical prowess of Protest The Hero's "Fortess" album! 'Nuff said!
Cheers and hails!!
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