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Its single "Career of Evil" also featured lyrics by Smith. Their third album, Secret Treaties, was released in April 1974 and became their first to break into the Top 100 on its way to being certified gold.

Columbia sent a promotional EP, Live Bootleg, to radio stations in October, and followed with BÖC's second album, Tyranny & Mutation, in February 1973, with the singles "Hot Rails to Hell," and future concert classics such as "OD'ed on Life Itself," and "7 Screaming Dizbusters." Another song on the album, "Baby Ice Dog," featured lyrics by Patti Smith. Buoyed by radio play on the East Coast, the record reached the lower rungs of the charts. The lineup on their 1972 self-titled label debut included Roeser, Bloom, Lanier, and Albert and Joe Bouchard. Thanks to Pearlman's tireless energy and canny pitching skills, he badgered Clive Davis with demos and live tapes until he signed them to Columbia Records in late 1971. As the latter they cut a second Elektra album that also went unreleased, though the single "What Is Quicksand?"/"Arthur Comics" was issued in 1970.Ĭut loose by Elektra, the band changed their name again, this time to Blue Öyster Cult. Pearlman changed their name to Oaxaca and then Stalk-Forrest Group. This quintet signed to Elektra Records and recorded an album that was never released (the band had dropped Bronstein and replaced him with Eric Bloom, their road manager and sound engineer). Initially without a lead singer, they added Les Bronstein on vocals. His strange, arcane poetry provided the lyrics for many of their songs, while he also enlisted another classmate, writer Richard Meltzer, to write lyrics. He got Soft White Underbelly paying gigs and eventually scored them a recording contract with Elektra. Pearlman's vision for the group was to make them the American equivalent of Black Sabbath. The original lineup consisted of guitarist Roeser, drummer Albert Bouchard, keyboardist/guitarist Allen Lanier, singers Jeff Kagel (aka Krishna Das) and Les Bronstein, and bassist Andrew Winters. Impressed by what he'd heard, Pearlman offered to manage their group and become a creative partner and lyricist. Rock critic and poet Sandy Pearlman overheard a jam session involving his fellow classmate Donald Roeser and friends. The group was assembled as Soft White Underbelly in a communal house at Stony Brook University on Long Island. There were only two studio outings during the '90s, with 2001's Curse of the Hidden Mirror their last studio date for two decades before the 2020 release of The Symbol Remains. The hits dried up only in the early '80s, after their 1981 gold album Fire of Unknown Origin and its smash single "Burnin' for You." BÖC's lineup fragmented during the late '80s, leaving the creative core of Donald Roeser (aka "Buck Dharma") and lead vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Eric Bloom at the helm of its revolving cast of players. Their third album, 1974's gold-certified Secret Treaties, established them as mainstays on FM radio, and they were enshrined as arena rock headliners worldwide with 1975's double-live On Your Feet or on Your Knees, 1976's platinum-certified Agents of Fortune, and 1978's platinum live outing Some Enchanted Evening. They have sold more than 25 million records, and they released a handful of singles during the '70s that became classic rock radio standards, among them "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Burnin' for You," and "Godzilla." Lyrics that crisscrossed science fiction, the occult, and horror films their layered, three-guitar attack expansive vocal harmonies and almost inimitable balance between crunchy riffs and infectious hooks resulted in the most listenable metal of the '70s. Since releasing their self-titled 1972 Columbia debut, Blue Öyster Cult have been called everything from the thinking man's heavy metal group to an occult rock band to the first pop/heavy metal act.