Long Island, US
rock, hip-hop, metal
2.8bn all-time streams (3 Nov '25)
Blue Öyster 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.