Artist: IRON BUTTERFLY
Album: HEAVY (CD)

Year: 16
Media type: CD

Heavy is the debut studio album by the rock band Iron Butterfly, released in early 1968. Most of the songs are fairly simple and based largely on the opening riffs, interspersed with some pop songs and blues covers.

The first two tracks, "Possession" and "Unconscious Power", were both written by keyboardist Doug Ingle and released as the respective sides of a single.

"Iron Butterfly Theme" is a riff-driven instrumental, and the longest track on the album (it is over four and-a-half minutes long). It contains some musical themes also present in the band's song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

The album's artwork depicts the band members playing their respective instruments beside a large monument of a human ear, with then-singer Darryl DeLoach sitting atop the monument playing a tambourine.

Three of the group's members (Jerry Penrod, Darryl DeLoach and Danny Weis) left the band shortly after the album was recorded, leaving Ingle and drummer Ron Bushy to find replacements. Heavy eventually went Gold in the US.

TRACKLIST:

1."Possession" (Ingle) – 2:45
2."Unconscious Power" (Bushy, Ingle, Weis) – 2:32
3."Get Out of My Life, Woman" (Toussaint) – 3:58
4."Don't Look Down on Me" (DeLoach) – 2:23
5."You Can't Win" (DeLoach, Weis) – 2:41

1."So-Lo" (DeLoach, Ingle) – 4:05
2."Look for the Sun" (DeLoach, Ingle, Weis) – 2:14
3."Fields of Sun" (DeLoach, Ingle) – 3:12
4."Stamped Ideas" (DeLoach, Ingle) – 2:08
5."Iron Butterfly Theme" (Ingle) – 4:34