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Iron Butterfly is een Amerikaanse psychedelische-rockband die zijn hoogtepunt kende eind jaren zestig van de 20e eeuw.

Ze werden bekend door hun grootste hit In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida van het gelijknamige album. Door hun psychedelische geluid worden ze voornamelijk geassocieerd met de hippiecultuur. Het album 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' behoort tot de 40 best verkochte albums ooit, met meer dan 30 miljoen verkochte exemplaren wereldwijd.

Iron Butterfly was 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".