Now 54, Blue Öyster Cult leveraged last October to levitate the onetime Long Islanders’ 14th studio spell since 1972. Only their second LP this millennium, The Symbol Remains takes its title from the hard rock occultists’ Revolution by Night rumbler “The Shadow of California,” but can’t quite keep pace with 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror, an easily overlooked grace note in a thrilling and thinking man’s catalog of psychic seances. Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser’s “Box in My Head” could slot on his 1982 solo sleeper Flat Out, while Eric Bloom’s “Alchemist” taps discographical alpha “Astronomy,” both survivors still leading the Godzilla tamers.
Sat., Oct. 9, 7pm