"What percussion instrument was prominently featured in the song ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper""?"
(Don't Fear) The Reaper Volume 2" album. Rock band L.A. Guns added a version of the song on their 2010 covers album "Covered in Guns". Pierce the Veil covered the song on the "Punk Goes Classic Rock" (2010) compilation. Swedish doom metal band Candlemass covered the song on their 2010 EP "Don't Fear The Reaper". The song was memorialized in the April 2000 "Saturday Night Live" comedy sketch "More Cowbell". The six-minute sketch presents a fictionalized version of the recording of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" on an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music." Will Ferrell wrote the sketch and played Gene Frenkle, an overweight
(Don't Fear) The Reaper (Don't Fear) The Reaper "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album "Agents of Fortune." The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Released as an edited single (omitting the slow building interlude in the original), the song was Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, reaching #7 in "Cash Box" and #12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in late 1976. Critical reception was mainly positive,