In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic--black or otherwise--that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots--and leaves the reader to decide whether FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album.
Excerpt: Stripping Led Zeppelin's famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet....
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic--black or...
How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? InTechGnosis a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming...
How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? InTechGnosis a cult classic now updated and reissued with a ...
