Club Ninja

“When The War Comes” features a spoken word intro by “shock jock” radio personality Howard Stern.

Club Ninja was released on Koch International. It was the band’s first album not released on Columbia.

Blue Öyster Cult was often described as a “thinking man’s heavy metal group.” Club Ninja did nothing to dissuade this theory.

Fantasy novelist Eric Van Lustbader contributed lyrics to Club Ninja.

Allmusic said of Club Ninja:

“Blue Öyster Cult’s gradual disintegration continued with Club Ninja, on which original member Allen Lanier was replaced by keyboard player Tom Zvoncheck, and several compositions from outside the band were featured, notably the Leggat Brothers’ “White Flags,” and a couple of generic metal exercises by Bob Halligan, who had contributed much the same sort of material to Judas Priest. On what should have been the positive side, Sandy Pearlman was back in the producer’s chair. But he did nothing to arrest BÖC’s decline into musical anonymity.”