Key facts
- Origin
- San Diego , California, U.S.
- Genres
- Acid rock hard rock psychedelic rock progressive rock
- Years active
- 1966–1971 1974–1985 1987–2012 2015–2021 2024–present
- Labels
- Atco MCA Purple Pyramid
- Past members
- See "Personnel"
- Website
- ironbutterfly .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rock band
- Has part
- Erik Brann
- Genre
- psychedelic rock
- Country of origin
- United States
- Record label
- Atco Records
- Official website
- www.ironbutterfly.com
- Image
- Iron Butterfly (1969).png
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- Commons category
- Iron Butterfly
- topic's main category
- Category:Iron Butterfly
- inception
- 1966-01-01
- location of formation
- San Diego
- member category
- Category:Iron Butterfly members
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- name
- Iron Butterfly
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Encyclopedic overview
Iron Butterfly is an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 1966. They are best known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard rock and heavy metal music. Although their heyday was the late 1960s, the band has been reformed with various members with varying levels of success with no new recordings since 1975. Their second album, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968), remains a best-seller, and Iron Butterfly was the first group to receive an in-house platinum album award from Atlantic Records.
According to music critic Manish Agarwal of Time Out, "Iron Butterfly blended hard rock with ordinate, acid-friendly textures." Mark Deming of AllMusic stated that they were one of the first musical groups to fuse the two styles in this way, and described their sound as a "blend of trippy musical exploration and open-ended jams with a hard, distorted attack".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iron Butterfly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.