<P> In a January 2017 interview, Roeser stated: "BÖC has tentative plans to do some recording this year . The band we have is so good it would be a shame not to record ." It would be the band's first new music since 2001 . </P> <P> In a May 2017 appearance on Castellano's "Band Geek" podcast, Bloom confirmed that there were tentative plans to release a new album in 2018 and that the band was currently considering offers from multiple record labels . He also stated that former bassist Danny Miranda would be playing with the band for the remainder of the year due to Sulton's prior touring commitments with Todd Rundgren . The band's official website has since started to list Miranda as an official member, stating that Miranda had' returned to BÖC' in early 2017 . </P> <P> The name "Blue Öyster Cult" came from a 1960s poem written by manager Sandy Pearlman . It was part of his "Imaginos" poetry, later used more extensively on their album Imaginos (1988). Pearlman had also come up with the band's earlier name, "Soft White Underbelly", from a phrase used by Winston Churchill in describing Italy during World War II . In Pearlman's poetry, the "Blue Oyster Cult" was a group of aliens who had assembled to secretly guide Earth's history . "Initially, the band was not happy with the name, but settled for it, and went to work preparing to record their first release ..." </P> <P> In a 1976 interview published in the U.K. music magazine ZigZag, Pearlman told the story explaining the origin of the band's name was an anagram of "Cully Stout Beer". </P>

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