{{short description|Album by Iron Butterfly}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Scorching Beauty | type = studio | artist = Iron Butterfly | cover = Scorchingbeauty.jpg | alt = | released = January 1975 | recorded = 1974 | venue = | studio = | genre = Hard rock | length = 36:18 | label = MCA | producer = Denny Randell | prev_title = Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly | prev_year = 1971 | next_title = Sun and Steel | next_year = 1975 }}
'''''Scorching Beauty''''' is the fifth studio album released by the American hard rock group Iron Butterfly. Released four years after their original breakup, it was recorded by a reformed lineup with only one member remaining from their previous album, drummer Ron Bushy. In addition to Bushy, this lineup includes Erik Brann (the guitarist from the classic lineup), Phil Kramer, and Howard Reitzes. The album cover was designed by Ernie Cefalu and illustrated by Drew Struzan. This album, along with ''Sun and Steel'' (released later in 1975), failed commercially. Tracks from this album tend to be ignored on Iron Butterfly compilations/greatest hit collections.
==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AMG">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r9899|label=Scorching Beauty – Iron Butterfly|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|accessdate=July 5, 2011}}</ref> }}
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album "undistinguished" and said that it "fell between the group's heavy acid rock and mid-'70s arena rock conventions."<ref name="AMG" />
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Side one | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = 1975 Overture | writer1 = Erik Brann, Ron Bushy, Philip Taylor Kramer, Howard Reitzes | extra1 = Brann | length1 = 4:19 | title2 = Hard Miseree | writer2 = Brann | extra2 = Brann | length2 = 3:42 | title3 = High on a Mountain Top | writer3 = Kramer | extra3 = Kramer | length3 = 4:01 | title4 = Am I Down | writer4 = Brann | extra4 = Brann | length4 = 5:22 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | extra_column = Lead vocals | title5 = People of the World | writer5 = Brann | extra5 = Brann | length5 = 3:23 | title6 = Searchin' Circles | writer6 = Brann | extra6 = Brann | length6 = 4:38 | title7 = Pearly Gates | writer7 = Jon Anderson, Bushy | extra7 = Kramer | length7 = 3:25 | title8 = Lonely Hearts | writer8 = Brann | extra8 = Brann | length8 = 3:14 | title9 = Before You Go | writer9 = Brann, Reitzes | extra9 = Brann, Reitzes | length9 = 5:34 }}
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- !scope="col"|Chart (1975) !scope="col"|Peak<br>position |- |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=149}}</ref> |align=center|97 |}
==Personnel== '''Iron Butterfly''' *Erik Brann – guitars, lead and backing vocals *Ron Bushy – drums, backing vocals *Philip Taylor Kramer – bass guitar, vocals *Howard Reitzes – keyboards, vocals '''Guest musician''' *Jon Anderson – backing vocals on "Pearly Gates"
==Singles== * "Searchin' Circles" (2:53 edit) b/w "Pearly Gates" (2:35 edit) * "High on a Mountain Top" b/w "Before You Go"
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Category:Iron Butterfly albums Category:1974 albums Category:MCA Records albums Category:Albums with cover art by Drew Struzan