Album Discography Destroyer
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DESTROYER
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Release Details
Casablanca NBLP-7025 (US, 3/15/76)
Casablanca/PolyGram 824 149-1/2/4 (US reissue 7/85, CD, 7/87)
Mercury 532 378-2/4 (US Remaster, 8/12/97)
Mercury/UMe B0011782-02 (US Digipak, 9/16/08)
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Tracks
A1. Detroit Rock City (5:20) - Stanley/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
A2. King Of The Night Time World (3:13) - Fowley/Anthony/Stanley/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
A3. God Of Thunder (4:13) - Stanley MP3 LYRICS
A4. Great Expectations (4:21) - Simmons/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
B1. Flaming Youth (2:55) - Frehley/Simmons/Stanley/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
B2. Sweet Pain (3:20) - Simmons MP3 LYRICS
B3. Shout It Out Loud (2:50) - Simmons/Stanley/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
B4. Beth (2:45) - Criss/Penridge/Ezrin MP3 LYRICS
B5. Do You Love Me (3:33) - Fowley/Ezrin/Stanley MP3 LYRICS
B6. Rock And Roll Demons (1:25) - Simmons/Stanley/Ezrin LYRICS
Album Details
Produced by Bob Ezrin. Recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York City, NY, from September 1975 to February 1976. Engineered and mixed by Jay Messina and Corky Stasiak. Orchestration on “Great Expectations” and “Beth” arranged and conducted by Bob Ezrin and H.A. MacMillan. The Brooklyn Boys Choir was brought in to record some backing-vocals, notably on A4. Bob’s sons, David and Josh Ezrin, provided the children’s voices on “God Of Thunder.”
On the dating of the “Destroyer” sessions: Following the success of “Alive!” KISS was featured in Circus Magazine, in an interview that dates to before the album went Gold. Paul commented, “We’ve already done 400,000 copies, and that’s in two weeks... The real reason we put this album out [Ed. ‘Alive!’] is that we’re in the midst of doing a new studio album... But this fifth album so far has taken a month to finish half of it” (Circus, 1976). This indicates that work had commenced on the album prior to September 1975 in some form or another.
Multimedia
Kiss Album Focus - Destroyer
Spirit of '76 Tour: 1976
US Dust sleeves Front | Back
US Center Rings Silver Text | Black Text
Chart Action
RIAA/Sales
USA: "Destroyer" was certified Gold by the RIAA on 4/22/1976, Platinum on 11/11/1976, and Double-Platinum in 1996. Interestingly, that "double-platinum" certification has appeared and disappeared from the RIAA database on several occassions, and it should be noted that in the same period co-writer Stan Penridge had sued the band. It has never been recertified, but has sold over 623,000 copies since the SoundScan era commenced in 1991.
