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Blue Oyster Cult (music)

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In an old issue of the magazine "Creem" was a feature on the Heavy Metal band Blue Oyster Cult. It had a photograph of the band performing live with a large Nazi-style banner or backdrop behind the band. It had a red field and white disc, but had in place of the swastika the symbol of the Blue Oyster Cult which is something like this: ż with a vertical line above the dot and a horizontal line on either side of the dot.

As at least one member of the band is Jewish, IIRC, they were almost certainly not making any nod to a band crypto-fascism. Rather, the band emerged in the wake of the so-called "Summer of Love" and their dark and brooding style was in direct opposition to the hippie notions of love and peace of that time.

You can see the flag here
For a closer look at the symbol, look here

John Evosevic , 18 october 2002

Their symbol was spposedly the Greek symbol of chaos and had nothing to do with neo-fascism or Nazis. I have been a Blue Oyster Cult fan since 1971 and all of us have known this since then.
Greg Biggs , 18 october 2002