blue yster cult im on the lamb but i aint no sheep

As with Heaven Forbid, some songs on Curse of the Hidden Mirror feature lyrics written by Sci-fi witer John Shirley (who wrote the screenplay for “The Crow”). That’s a change,” Dharma says.ĭharma and Bloom have certainly written some spectacular lyrics over the years, but they are not averse to embracing contributors outside the band. “Eric and I are collaborating a lot more on songs, and a lot more fruitfully than we have. Our songwriting started evolving,” Bloom says. We hadn’t written together like that in a long time. We’d go back and forth saying, ‘What about this?’ We wrote ‘The Old Gods Return’ like that, for example. Buck and I would arrive a little early and start working on songs. Some of the new songs were written in rehearsal. We actually rehearsed for two months straight. “We did a ton of rehearsals for this album. Bobby was instrumental in all the song arrangements too.” “Danny and Bobby were really important in bringing these songs to life. I wrote ‘Showtime’ back in 1979, and Buck’s ‘Stone of Love’ originated back in 1983 around the time of The Revolution by Night,” Bloom explains. “The majority of material was written in early 2000, but a few came from music we’d written years ago that we just couldn’t come up with a good arrangement for. Dharma and Bloom collaborated more on much of the songwriting than they had done in years, and Curse of the Hidden Mirror is the first album BÖC has recorded 100 percent digitally.įrom the potent songwriting to the technical challenges of recording digitally, Curse of the Hidden Mirror marks an important phase of BÖC’s career, and that’s really saying something for a band that’s sold more than 15 million records. The creation of this new album - songwriting to recording - was a fascinating process. The 11 tracks on Curse of the Hidden Mirror include “I Just Like to Be Bad,” the single “Pocket,” “Eye of the Hurricane,” “One Step Ahead of the Devil,” “Good to Feel Hungry,” “Here Comes That Feeling,” “Dance on Stilts,” “Stone of Love,” “The Old Gods Return,” “Out of the Darkness” and “Showtime.”

This album is the follow-up to 1998’s CMC International release Heaven Forbid, which was BÖC’s first new studio album in 10 years. Other notable BÖC songs include “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll,” “Then Came the Last Days of May,” “I Love the Night,” “In Thee,” “Veteran of the Psychic Wars,” “Dominance and Submission,” “Astronomy,” “Black Blade” and “Shooting Shark.”Ĭurse of the Hidden Mirror “reflects” the intense creative vision of BÖC’s original core trio of vocalist/lead guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, vocalist/rhythm guitarist Eric Bloom and keyboardist/guitarist Allen Lanier and the longtime rhythm section of bass guitarist Danny Miranda and drummer Bobby Rondinelli (ex-Rainbow, ex-Black Sabbath). BÖC’s canon includes three stone-cold classic songs that will waft through the cosmos long after the sun has burned out: The truly haunting “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” from 1976’s Agents of Fortune, the pummeling “Godzilla” from 1977’s Spectres and the hypnotically melodic “Burnin’ for You” from 1981’s Fire of Unknown Origin. Upon the release of BÖC’s self-titled debut album in 1972, the band was praised for its catchy-yet-heavy music and lyrics that could be provocative, terrifying, funny or ambiguous, often all in the same song. The band is often cited as a major influence by other acts such as Metallica, and BÖC was listed in VH1’s countdown of the greatest hard rock bands of all time. That tradition continues with the June 5, 2001, release of Curse of the Hidden Mirror on CMC International Records, a division of the Sanctuary Records Group.īlue Öyster Cult occupies a unique place in rock history because it’s one of very few hard rock/heavy metal bands to earn both genuine mainstream critical acclaim as well as commercial success. Indeed, the Long Island, NY-based band is revered within the hard rock and heavy metal scene for its pioneering work. For nearly three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling fans of intelligent hard rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with classic songs.

Blue yster cult im on the lamb but i aint no sheep