Fasten your seatbelts children because we're going to "... show you hell and bring you back alive". Let's get the tame, literal stuff out of the way first. read more
Astronomy is song that appears on several different albums by the most lyrically imaginative heavy metal rock band that ever existed: Blue Öyster Cult. Astronomy was first unveiled on the 1974 album Secret Treaties as the final, six minute, twenty-eight second song. read more
Astronomy is the story of Desdinova getting his bearings and starting a long journey with his friends to find this"dark mirror." Sandy Pearlman had this song and many others in the Imaginos cycle running through his head since the early 60's. read more
Blue Öyster Cult recorded a new version of"Astronomy" for their 1988 concept album Imaginos, which was based on Pearlman's poem"The Soft Doctrines Of Imaginos." The concept is that Imaginos is born in 1804 and given superhuman powers. read more