After the overwhelming lysergic success of the "Ball" released in 1969, Iron Butterfly a year later on 1970 released their fourth studio album "Metamorphosis".
Despite the sudden departure of guitarist Eric Brauun caused by differences with his companions, two new members of great weight on the six strings join the band; Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt and the historic Mike Pinera, who provide the band and the album in question with nuances of visceral hard rock, of course without abandoning their ingrained flower power style.
The album comes out in a period in which bands of perhaps more renowned for many such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Deep Purple were going through an epic moment in the history of rock and roll, because by then they were established as the main managers of the hard rock and heavy metal clearly influenced by blues and psychedelic passages. Despite this, the creativity of the band was not overshadowed because thanks to the talent of the old figures of the group and the appearance of these two majestic guitarists, they launched a sound project that although it has airs and melodies much softer than the previous ones, has an amalgam of baritone voices, acoustic, sharp pieces and extensive riffs in the best style of hard rock with hints of acid as well as the evidence of temperate developments in terms of progressive sound embodied in the last two pieces of said work as they are "Easy Rider" and "Butterfly Bleu".
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