Led Zeppelin LED ZEPPELIN IV

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Illustrator: Barrington Coleby. Photographers: Armando Gallo; Koh Hasebe; Barrie Wentzell; Alec Byrne. Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's u ntitled fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, tradtionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology and mysticism. These obsessions come to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven," which encapsulates the entire album in one song. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Format: CD Genre: Rock Released: 2014-10-27 Show more