★★★★★
Once upon a time, Iron Butterfly were a commercial phenomenon, shifting an inordinate tonnage of 1968's
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-11-06
★★★★★
Long before there was classic progressive rock, English or otherwise, or modern prog rock, even shoegaze music, there was the psychedelic rock of the Sixties. Iron Butterfly was one of the seminal bands offering their twisted, heavy and psyched out melodic rock. Iron Butterfly: circa 1967. If you mention Iron Butterfly, most people remember only one thing: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (baby)...
- www.dangerdog.com
2014-06-06
★★★★★
Live albums are hard. They're rarely good, because they rarely deliver on what they aim to be: an encapsulation of an act's live show experience. But they just can't; a concert is more than just the songs played without multi-tracking and overdubs and with extra-long solos and appreciative crowd noise. A concert has a certain electricity in the air, certain smells (most of them illegal), and the sound is so much louder and fuller than any stereo or headphones can deliver...
- popdose.com
2011-10-20
★★★★★
Sound: Iron Butterfly are a fluke in the music world. Their sound is one thing and another all at once. Basically, they're psychedelic, with creepy classical Vox organ by Doug Ingle, Middle Eastern influenced guitar by Erik Brann, a nd tribal drums by Ron Bushy. But there's also a hard edge to it, which explains why the album has been cited as a big influence on heavy metal. Their winding instrumental breaks also inspired Black Sabbath and the like as well...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: The Butterfly did have a big sound for their time, trippy pysch meeting with heavy blues. On this their 1969 third album they got to try a couple of different styles, with varying levels of success. Erik Brann, a teenage prodigy playing in a platinum-selling act? Stardom beckons surely. Well, no. Here he is often woefully exposed by the band's real virtuoso, the bassist Lee Dorman, and often offers no more than scratchy rythym guitar...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Iron Butterfly's only (and dubious) claim to cultural posterity is1968's overwrought, absurdly long "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," whichinexplicably appears on Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly only in a three-minute single edit. This isdefinitely a punch line in need of a joke. D
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
They may boast two of the originals (Erik Braunn and Ron Bushy) but the sound of the 1975 Iron Butterfly owes more to the Stooges of Fun House, the Velvet Underground of The Velvet Underground and 1966 in general than it does to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Doug Ingle's ponderous organ that blew not a few minds on the group's first LP is still around, but it's time to ask whether Iron Butterfly has outlived its usefulness. The old band had a unified let's-fuck-up-some-heads approach, and even if they rarely made it past the earlobe, they were the Butterfly, distinctly bad and good. Now it's a little of this and that and trying to find out who their audience might be rather than just playing 'cause they got something going that's heavy and freaky...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Iron Butterfly's first album was called Heavy which is very descriptive, that's just about the only thing to be said about it, it was a very obvious effort to be just that.I had hoped that their second would be different. Two members of the group present on Heavy were replaced and rumors had it their sound was totally changed from the first into something called "mystery-rock" (more butterfly than iron). 'Fraid not, almost the exact same trip in the second as in the first...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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