Sun and Steel (album)

Sun and Steel
Studio album by Iron Butterfly
Released October 1975[1]
Recorded 1974–1975
Genre Hard rock
Length 35:05
Label MCA
Producer John Ryan
Iron Butterfly chronology

Scorching Beauty
(1975)
Sun and Steel
(1975)
Rare Flight
(1988)

Sun and Steel is the sixth studio album released by Iron Butterfly in 1975. It explores a wider variety of styles than any other Iron Butterfly album, yet always remains within the contemporary conventions of hard rock, aside from a foray into progressive rock on "I'm Right, I'm Wrong." This album is usually ignored on Iron Butterfly compilations/greatest hit collections.

Reception

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Allmusic [2]

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine delivered a negative review of Sun and Steel, rating it one out of five stars. He said it "was an outright disastrous attempt at reshaping the band's signature sound to '70s hard rock conventions, lacking even the curiosity value of Scorching Beauty."[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Erik Brann except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Sun and Steel" – 4:01
  2. "Lightnin'" (Bill DeMartines, Phillip Kramer) – 3:02
  3. "Beyond the Milky Way" (Ron Bushy, DeMartines) – 3:38
  4. "Free" – 2:41
  5. "Scion" – 5:02

Side two

  1. "Get It Out" – 2:53
  2. "I'm Right, I'm Wrong" (DeMartines, Kramer) – 5:27
  3. "Watch the World Going By" – 2:59
  4. "Scorching Beauty" – 6:42

Singles

Band members

References

  1. "Scorching Beauty/Sun and Steel". CD/DVD Reviews. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Sun and Steel - Iron Butterfly at AllMusic. Retrieved July 5, 2011.