Good afternoon evil-doers and craft brew freaks! The Meista here today pairing the 2020 Witches Brew Ale from the "Bad Brew Witches" at Talisman Brewing Company with another great album by the King... King Diamond that is... "The Eye"! Hell yeah!
Album Info:
- Artist: King Diamond
- Title: "The Eye"
- Recorded: July through August 1990 at Sweet Silence Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Release date: October 30, 1990 (5th studio album by King Diamond)... the "Eye" is 30 years old today!
- Record company: Roadrunner Records / Metal Blade Records
- Production: Roberto Falcao, King Diamond, and Andy LaRocque
- Album cover art: Thomas Holm, and Torbjörn Jörgensen
- Personnel: Peter Blakk (guitars), Andy LaRocque (lead guitars), Hal Patino (bass), Kim Bendix Petersen aka King Diamond (lead and backing vocals and keyboards), and Snowy Shaw (drums)
- Guest musician: Roberto Falcao (keyboards)
- Musical style: Heavy metal, progressive metal, theatrical gothic horror metal, and neoclassical metal
- Sound: Combining horror themes with wonderfully rich textures of classic metal, neoclassical elements, and progressive metal along with King Diamond's insanely unique and mesmerizing vocal acrobatics, "The Eye" is another great album in the Kind Diamond history! The guitar solos soar, the keys are eerie and haunting, and the rhythm section pounds you into submission! And I really, really love the acoustic work on "Insanity"... hauntingly beautiful!
- Major themes: A concept album about a cursed necklace and a woman accused of witchcraft during the during the French Inquisition, themes include evil, witchcraft, magic, persecution of alleged witches, the occult, sexual abuse, death, revenge, etc.
- Tracks:
- "The Eye Of The Witch"
- "The Trial (Chambre Ardente)"
- "Burn"
- "Two Little Girls"
- "Into The Convent"
- "Father Picard"
- "Behind These Walls"
- "The Meetings"
- "Insanity"
- "1642 Imprisonment"
- "The Curse"
Brew Info:
- Brewery: Talisman Brewing Company (Ogden, Utah)
- Website: https://www.talismanbrewingco.com/
- Brew: Witches Brew Ale
- Style: Kölsch
- Serving: 16 ounce bottle
- ABV: 6.1%
- Ingredients: Traditional Kölsch brewed with spices, orange zest, and cranberries
- Pour: The Witches Brew pours a very cloudy golden-peach hue with a frothy, egg shell white, 1-fnger head with good retention and lot of sticky, soapy lacing.
- Nose: The nose is spicy, fruity, grassy, and grainy. It smells like a festive spiced cookie! There are aromas of nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, cranberries, raspberries, lemon juice and zest, orange peel, crackery grains, and a hint white pepper.
- Taste: The taste of the Witches Brew is fruity, spicy, sweet, and grainy. There are notes of spicy cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon along with tart cranberries, bitter orange peel, lemon zest, crackery biscuit, and grassy hops.
- Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied and well-carbonated, the mouthfeel is very crisp, slightly tart, and very refreshing with a dry, spicy finish.
- Notes: "In the 13th Century England, one-third of women brewed for sale. Commonly referred to as "Beer Witches", their tall hats, brooms, and cauldrons were symbols of their trade used to identify them. As an adage to craft, this annual beer is brewed all the "Bad Brew Witches" at Talisman! Cheers to women in brewing!"
Overall pairing: The Witches Brew Ale is a very crisp, very solid, very festive fall ale with lots of spicy and fruity flavors and aromas... perfect for the melodic heavy metal onslaught that is King Diamond's "The Eye"! Those spicier notes work really well with the blast of guitars, while the complexity of the brew is great for the overall themes and the King's indelible voice!
I picked up my killer LP copy at Lavender Vinyl () and you should too!!
Cheers!! And all hail the King!! Happy Halloween!!
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