Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon

Martin Popoff, three-time BOC book author, moderates a panel of Cult experts for deep-dive discussions on every Blue Oyster Cult studio album in Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon. The book is set up in Q&A format, allowing for pure and piercing prose that is also conversational and easy-access. It covers the band's personalities, songs, album covers, lyrics, music, and genre-defying. The author is confident that the wise words from the cabal of music authorities will have you playing the band's canon with a renewed appreciation. Additionally, the book provides a plethora of images that make the essays on the band's fifteen albums more visceral.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 306 pages
Publication date: 18 August 2023
Publisher: Wymer Publishing

In Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon, three-time BOC book author Martin Popoff takes the stage to moderate a distinguished panel of Cult experts for in-depth discussions on every Blue Oyster Cult studio album. Every aspect is explored, from the band members' personalities to the songs, album covers, and the band's highly regarded lyrics as poetry. The music is hailed as groundbreaking and genre-defying. The book is structured in a Q&A format, allowing for pure and piercing prose that is also conversational and accessible.

In the end, the author is confident that the wise words from this cabal of music authorities, with Popoff not holding back either, joining in the fun when the door is opened, will have you playing the band's canon with a renewed appreciation for the complexity laced throughout albums like Tyranny and Mutation, Agents of Fortune, with its career-defining hit (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Spectres, Fire of Unknown Origin, and the daunting Imaginos. But fear not, Martin and his team have taken us right up to the band's effusively received comeback album, The Symbol Remains, bringing band and fan full circle, including, of course, umlauts.

Augmenting the learning (and listening) experience, Dominance and Submission provides a plethora of images that make these essays on the band's fifteen albums even more visceral.

Bottom line: if you thought Martin had covered everything you need to know in his definitive Agents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult Story, think again. The analysis proffered by his panel even sent Popoff back to the sacred texts for a rock 'n' roll re-imagining. If he's been made smarter by what these guys have to say, you will be too.

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915246325