"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" is a song by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult.
It was written by Eric Bloom and British author Michael Moorcock[1] (creator of Elric of Melniboné).
[2] Prior to that, the term "psychic war" appears in the poem "Far Arden" by Jim Morrison of The Doors.
[3] The song has been covered by King Django meets the Scrucialists (2003), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (2012) and Ape Machine (2022), as well as in live performances by the Finnish metal band Tarot in 2004,[4] as a bonus track in their 2006 album,[5] Fleesh[6] and Metallica at the Bridge School Benefit in 2007 and later concerts.
Writing that "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" was the dead center of Heavy Metal’s admittedly amorphous core, he further stated "The drums are tribal.