This album is the the Blue Oyster Cult album to measure all their later releases by. Buck Dharma's guitar work is excellent, Bloom's lyrics haunting and powerful, and the cohesion of the band may be topped only by a selection or two from "Secret Treaties" and "Tyranny & Mutation". No top 40 sellout songs here...a masterful collage of fear, intrigue,extraterrestial thought, and anti Nazi sentiment. If you listen to it once...you'll go back to it several times before you put it away. Maybe not the best..but the groundbreaker..and a captivating recording