Originally from San Diego, shortly after its foundation they moved to Los Angeles, where they began to compose what would later become the repertoire of their first album "Heavy" published in 1967.
In this first album, the band shows a style full of atmospheres that run between psychedelic and progressive and excellent sounds.
After multiple problems with the Warner label, the band breaks up completely except for their keyboard player Doug Ingle who soon recruits new musicians to continue without delay and enter the studio for a new recording.
"Heavy" was a resounding success despite the general rampage, so the label left Doug freely choosing new musicians and producers for a new album.
Shortly after the new members arrive; Ron Bushy as drums, Lee Dorman as bassist and guitarist Erik Brann.
In this new album Iron Butterfly they would be lost in the vastness of the psychotropic cosmos. Perhaps they were considering solving an arithmetic problem. They searched for the perfect riff among thousands of alphanumeric combinations and hit it, by chance or not, we will never know.
A classic album, steeped in psychedelia from start to finish. Thanks to his central hit, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, the song of the same name and the most successful of his career, he remains alive in the memory of rock.
This was the first platinum record in history, it was released in 1968 by the Atlantic Records label and contains 6 songs. Inside the album we find on his A-side with a whole display of psychedelia and incessant guitar playing, reflected in cuts like "Most Anything You Want", "Flowers and Beads", "My Mirage" or "Termination".
However, the culminating moment comes with “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, a star song that occupies the entire B-side of the vinyl with more than 17 minutes duration and which closes a legendary album.
An album that after fifty years since its publication continues to be one of the most successful in history with more than 30 million copies sold.
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