Blue Oyster Cult Music

Origin: Long Island, NY

Decades: 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

Blue Oyster Cult was the thinking man's heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures (often in the fields of science fiction and horror), including Eric Von Lustbader, Patti Smith, Michael Moorcock, and Stephen King, while turning out some of the more listenable metal music of the early and mid-'70s. The band that became Blue Oyster Cult was organized in 1967 at Stony Brook College on Long Island by stud... Read More

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