Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny And Mutation (Columbia Import)
Ian MacDonald, NME, 16 March 1974
WELL, HERE it is then: volume two of Sandy Perlman's boys' collective voyage in the S.S. "Cosmic Greaser Speed-freak" towards strange new worlds of murk and malevolence. The Quest for the Heavy Metal Grail, no less and, once the formula has been set, the room left for any real surprises is, of course, strictly limited, leaving the primary question to be levelled at this endeavour less What's new?, than What's the point?
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