blue oyster cult Archive
23 Oct 2025
Blue Öyster Cult: A 50-plus Year Career of Evil
Combining muscle, malevolence, sarcasm and sophistication, Blue Öyster Cult became one of the hottest live attractions of the 1970s and beyond. The Long Island rock band’s earliest years found them […]
10 Feb 2025
Five BÖC Classics with Eric Bloom on Lead Vocal
Blue Öyster Cult reigns near the top among bands who helped bring heavy metal into the mainstream. Their approach – rock-solid riffs, intelligent lyrics that combined humor and a touch […]
20 Jun 2024
Blue Öyster Cult: Archival Intelligence (part 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Was the band just so prolific in those days that you simply had more material than you could use? Eric Bloom: I don’t know […]
19 Jun 2024
Blue Öyster Cult: Archival Intelligence (part 1)
Blue Öyster Cult’s classic lineup spotlighted on Ghost Stories, a new AI-meets-archives set Masters of what used to be called metal (known these days as melodic hard rock), Long Island’s […]
25 Dec 2020
Blue Öyster Cult: Cultus Redux – Part 3 of 3
Continued from Part Two… Career of Evil There are many connective threads that runs through Blue Öyster Cult’s body of work. 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror took its title […]
24 Dec 2020
Blue Öyster Cult: Cultus Redux – Part 2 of 3
Continued from Part One… The Making of The Symbol Remains The process of creating an album is challenging enough on its own; making a record when the band’s members are […]
23 Dec 2020
Blue Öyster Cult: Cultus Redux – Part 1 of 3
An edited version of this feature was the cover story in the December 2020 issue of Goldmine. Blue Öyster Cult returns with its first album of new music in nearly […]
28 Jul 2019
Another Enchanted Evening: Blue Öyster Cult is Still Burnin’ for You
Blue Öyster Cult is best-known for its smash hit, 1976’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” A winning combination of catchy riffage, hard rock arrangement and borderline-progressive rock composition style, the standout […]
04 Jul 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for July 2016, Part 1
Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. Today kicks off another of my occasional week-long extravaganzas in which I post five reviews each business day, each exactly 100 words. Some […]
17 May 2013
Album Review: Blue Öyster Cult — Imaginos
Imaginos has a tortured history. The eleventh studio album released by Blue Öyster Cult (they had by this time released no less than three live albums), Imaginos was comprised of […]