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Curse of the Hidden Mirror
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 5, 2001
RecordedDecember 11, 2000-March 2001
StudioMillbrook Sound Studios, Millbrook, New York
Genre
Length50:54
LabelCMC/Sanctuary
Producer
Blue Öyster Cult chronology
St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings
(2001)
Curse of the Hidden Mirror
(2001)
A Long Day's Night
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blistering4/5[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[3]

Curse of the Hidden Mirror is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in 2001. The only single from the record was the poorly received "Pocket". Lackluster sales and poor relations led to the band being dropped by their label, Sanctuary Records. BÖC has not recorded a studio album or held a record deal since, though the band announced a deal with Frontiers Music in July 2019, with plans to release a new studio album in 2020.

The title of the album is taken from a song contained in the unreleased album by the Stalk-Forrest Group, the band that would later become Blue Öyster Cult, recorded in 1970.

John Shirley, an author of cyberpunk science fiction, wrote the lyrics for many songs of the album.

The song "Out Of The Darkness" was originally featured in the 1992 film Bad Channels,[4] which Blue Öyster Cult recorded the soundtrack for, although the song was not included in the soundtrack album for the movie. "Showtime" was originally written and recorded for Cultösaurus Erectus but did not make the final cut.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dance on Stilts"Donald Roeser, John Shirley6:05
2."Showtime"Eric Bloom, John Trivers4:38
3."The Old Gods Return"Bloom, Roeser, Shirley4:36
4."Pocket"Roeser, Shirley4:15
5."One Step Ahead of the Devil"Bloom, Roeser, Danny Miranda, Bobby Rondinelli, Shirley4:16
6."I Just Like to Be Bad"Bloom, Bryan Neumeister, Shirley3:54
7."Here Comes That Feeling"Roeser, Dick Trismen3:21
8."Out of the Darkness"Miranda, Bloom, Roeser, Shirley5:06
9."Stone of Love"Roeser, Richard Meltzer5:49
10."Eye of the Hurricane"Bloom, Neumeister, Roeser, Rondinelli, Shirley4:40
11."Good to Feel Hungry"Miranda, Bloom, Roeser, Shirley4:12

Personnel

Band members

Additional musicians

  • Norman DelTufo – percussion
  • George Cintron – background vocals

Production

  • Paul Orofino – engineer, mixing
  • Leon Zervos – mastering

References

  1. ^ Horowitz, Hal. "Blue Öyster Cult - Curse of the Hidden Mirror review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  2. ^ Wilson, David L. "Blue Oyster Cult – "Curse of the Hidden Mirror" (CMC International)". Blistering. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (March 2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 9781926592206.
  4. ^ "Bad Channels (1992 Video) – Soundtracks – IMDb". Retrieved 2014-01-26.