"Def Leppard once credited us as being the Father of Heavy Metal. The only reason I shy away from that reference is simply because I'm not convinced that I really like where heavy metal has gone nowadays..."
With its endless, droning minor-key riff and mumbled vocals, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is arguably the most notorious song of the acid rock era. According to legend, the group was so stoned when they recorded the track that they could not pronounce the title "In the Garden of Eden" properly, thus "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was born. But that's the essence of its appeal - it's the epitome of heavy psychedelic excess, encapsulating the most indulgent tendencies of the era. Iron Butterfly never matched the warped excesses of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," either on their debut album of the same name or the rest of their catalog, yet they occasionally made some enjoyable fuzz guitar-driven psychedelia that works as a period piece. The five tracks that share space with their magnum opus on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida qualify as good artifacts, and the entire record still stands as the group's definitive album, a highly influential Psychedelic masterpiece and one of the biggest selling albums of all time.
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