Jerome Reuter: Author of Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath & the Cultural Landscape

Rock & Roll Nightmares by Staci Layne Wilson

Episode notes

Staci welcomes Jerome Reuter, a film critic and historian whose work can be found in Diabolique magazine and various online publications. He is also the author of a new book, Electric Funeral: Black Sabbath and the Cultural Landscape 1970-1975, which is a scholarly work that drills down on the importance of the band’s first albums. Discussion covers the cultural zeitgeist of the time, which includes the Boris Karloff film “Black Sabbath,” Aleister Crowley, the Vietnam War, and much more.

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heavy metalblack magicblack sabbathjerome reuter