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Blue Öyster Cult is a Heavy metal and Progressive rock act. Their catalogue also touches Psychedelic rock. Their sound grew out of Aldo Nova, Pavlov's Dog, King's X, Foghat and Patti Smith. Those roots explain a lot about how Blue Öyster Cult arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thin Lizzy, UFO, Rainbow, Ted Nugent and Wishbone Ash, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Alice in Chains, Coheed and Cambria, Apollo 440, Saint Vitus and Paul Bostaph, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 68 connections around Blue Öyster Cult, reaching back through Aldo Nova and forward to Alice in Chains. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Blue Öyster Cult connections
Blue Öyster Cult grew out of Aldo Nova, Pavlov's Dog, King's X and Foghat, shares an orbit with Thin Lizzy, UFO, Rainbow and Ted Nugent, went on to shape Alice in Chains, Coheed and Cambria, Apollo 440 and Saint Vitus. 68 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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