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Heaven Forbid
Blue Oyster Cult
CMC International Records, 1998
REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 05/17/1998
Blue Oyster Cult could be the comeback story of the year. Theirlast studio album was the "so-awful-it-makes-you-puke" Imaginos, after which the band seemed to disappear off theface of the earth.
Now, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and crew have come back with asurprisingly powerful tour de force, Heaven Forbid, an album so strong it just might make youforget that the band didn't make it onto the Godzilla soundtrack. (If you don't get the reference, youneed to do some musical homework - just like the filmmakers betterdo.)
Things get started on a harder note really quick on "See You InBlack," a number which at first sounds pure evil, but ends uprepresenting evil with a purpose. In a sense, one wishes that BlueOyster Cult would drop the whole satanic schtick - songs like"Power Underneath Dispair" (sic) might be good numbers, but otherbands have done the demonic act a whole lot better.
But the Blue Oyster Cult of old returns with a vengeance onsongs like "Harvest Moon" and "Damaged". The key lineup of Roeser,Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Danny Miranda and Chuck Burgi soundstighter than any other incarnation of Blue Oyster Cult ever did,and the songwriting has definitely shown signs of growing duringtheir extended absence.
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