June 22nd, 2024 - Dark For Life Under a Luna Negra

 

Hey there rockers, rollers, headbangers, and artisan beer lovers!  Your rockin' drinkin' buddy the Meista here today pairing a tasty Luna Negra Mexican-Style Dark Lager from the fine folks at Proper Brewing Company and "Dark For Life", the killer album by Timeless Haunt!  Hell yeah!

Album Info:

• Artist: Timeless Haunt
• Title: "Dark For Life"
• Recorded: 2020 through early 2021 at JL Studios
• Release date: March 5th, 2021 (1st full-length studio album by Timeless Haunt)
• Record company: Stormspell Records 
• Production: Timeless Haunt and Joe Loftus
• Album cover art: Felipe Machado Franco
• Personnel: George Dimitri (bass, keyboards, and backing vocals), Tommy Eye (guitars), Don Fortune (keyboards), John Jesuele (drums and percussion), and Joe Wood aka the Unknown Vocalist (lead vocals)
• Additional musician: Symphonic Haunted Choir (backing choir vocals)
• Musical style: Heavy metal, progressive metal with elements of doom and gothic metal
• Sound: Heavy-hitting, bombastic, and dark, the tracks on "Dark For Life" are a wonderful blend of more traditional heavy metal with progressive elements.
• Major themes: Darkness, horror, evil, vengeance, sorrow, desire, self-preservation, etc.
• Tracks: 

1. "Geisterton (Ghost)"
2. "Embrace The Haunt"
3. "Dark For Life"
4. "Sinful Girl"
5. "Pain"
6. "526"
7. "Not For Me"
8. "Wicked Game" (Chris Isaak cover)
9. "Night Crawler" (Judas Priest cover)

Brew Info:

• Brewery: Proper Brewing Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
• Website: http://www.properbrewingco.com/ 
• Brew: Luna Negra Mexican-Style Dark Lager 
• Style: Mexican Dark Lager
• Serving: 16 ounce can
• ABV: 5.0%
• IBUs: 15
• Pour: The Luna Negra pours a fairly clear, deep, dark brown color with a very thin and bubbly, off-white head that dissipates to the thin ring with little lacing.
• Nose: The nose is malty, grainy, and slightly fruity.  There are aromas of caramel/toffee, corn chips, doughy bread, light grassy hops, cracked wheat, and light honey.
• Taste: The taste is malty, grainy, and slightly sweet.  There are notes of crackery biscuit, bready malt, light corn, lemon zest, cola, and sweet caramel/toffee.
• Mouthfeel: Light to medium-bodied and well-carbonation, the mouthfeel of the Luna Negra is very crisp and very smooth with a clean finish.

Overall pairing: The Proper Luna Negra Mexican-Style Dark Lager is a very tasty, easy-drinking, crushable brew... perfect for banging your head to the progressive, yet hard-rockin' metal punch of Timeless Haunt's "Dark For Life"!  'Nuff said!

Cheers and hails!!