Metallica Release Rye The Lightning Whiskey, Release Free Download of Live 'Ride The Lightning' Performance
Today, Metallica unveiled their newest addition to their Blackened American Whiskey line titled ‘Rye The Lightning’. According to the website’s tasting notes, ‘the double cask finishing results in notes of dried fig, hay, pinewood, pear, and rum cake on the nose, and on the palate, clover honey, mint, corn husk, sugar cane, walnut, and cinnamon.''
The whiskey was made using Blackened’s “Black Noise Sonic Enhancement Process”, which utilized low frequencies from Metallica recordings to vibrate the barrels, pushing the whiskey further into the barrel. A description from the Blackened Whiskey website reads as follows:
“RYE THE LIGHTNING™ was double finished in Madeira and Rum casks. It is during the rum cask finishing that the whiskey undergoes the proprietary BLACK NOISE™ sonic enhancement process that uses the low hertz frequencies from Metallica’s music to vibrate the barrels, causing a greater interaction between the whiskey and the wood, forcing the liquid further into the barrel and extracting more flavor and color. This expression has notes of brown sugar, honey, mint and hay followed by spice and wood notes from the rum cask finish.
The bottle’s label is emblazoned with a green soundwave to differentiate from the Blackened American Whiskey flagship and align with the historical significance of using the color green to characterize rye whiskey bottles.”
The band have given fans a chance to hear that very same playlist: a rare performance of the band’s Ride The Lightning album, taken from their 2012 Orion Music + More Festival set. All fans need to do is head over to the website, scan the QR code, and press play.
You can click here to pre-order a bottle of ‘Rye The Lightning’ and find out more information on this limited release.
Main Photo Credit: Herring & Herring
Ride The Lightning Download Track Listing
1. Ride The Lightning Intro
2. The Call of Ktulu
3. Creeping Death
4. Escape (Live Debut)
5. Trapped Under Ice
6. Kirk Solo
7. Fade to Black
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. Ride The Lightning
10. Fight Fire with Fire
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