Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult's third album 'Secret Treaties' has been called a progressive rock masterpiece and an early heavy metal classic, and although it deserves these accolades to some extent, it's more of a slightly diluted middle-ground between the two. It's certainly an improvement over the somewhat muddled 'Tyranny and Mutation,' and the most creative album they would produce for some time after, and once again Buck Dharma leads the way with his inspired guitar playing. There's a perfect balance maintained here between heaviness and melody, often within the same song, even if the "heaviness" is strictly in an early seventies sense, making songs like ...  Read the complete review