The New York-based outfit carved out a niche ... this time around. But in “Godzilla, Blue Öyster Cult delivered a track that would eventually become a hard rock standard of sorts.

OGA, Akita Prefecture—Godzilla, the long-heralded “king of the monsters” in cinema, has also achieved rock star status here. A silhouette from a rock emerging from a reef in Shiosezaki ...