{"id":5060,"date":"2015-01-30T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2015-01-30T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:20:07","slug":"album-review-destroyer-kiss-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2015\/01\/30\/album-review-destroyer-kiss-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: &#8220;Destroyer&#8221; &#8212; Kiss (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5061\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2015\/01\/30\/album-review-destroyer-kiss-1976\/blgdestroyer\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?fit=325%2C325&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"325,325\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blgdestroyer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?fit=325%2C325&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5061\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?resize=225%2C225\" alt=\"blgdestroyer\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blgdestroyer.jpg?w=325&amp;ssl=1 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><strong>Destroyer<\/strong> was Kiss&#8217;s larger-than-life effort to keep momentum rolling after the multi-platinum success of their landmark 1975 live album <em>Alive!<\/em>. After releasing three studio albums to middling results, the band bet the farm on an album that endeavored to replicate their &#8220;live concert&#8221; experience, and successfully at that, even if the amount of actual &#8220;live concert&#8221; material on that album might be limited to a drum fill on &#8220;100,000 Years&#8221;. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway after that album blew through the stratosphere, the band had some serious heat, and exploited their cache by retaining the services of mega-producer Bob Ezrin, who had helped bring Alice Cooper into super-stardom in the early 1970s. Ezrin broadened the bands sound, resulting in an album that felt nothing like the raw, stripped down, lean-and-mean sound of their first three studio albums. This was a richer, fuller experience. The album featured orchestrations, choirs, layered guitars, binaural audio, a deeper low-end and a more pronounced mid-range. Ezrin brought the band&#8217;s music to another level entirely, adding in a layer of sophistication that earlier albums had noticeably lacked.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting album <strong>Destroyer<\/strong> ended up as one of the band&#8217;s best-selling LPs, a moderate hit when initially released but smashing into platinum (and eventually multi-platinum) status thanks to the powerhouse single &#8220;Beth&#8221;. This unexpected track went to #7 on the charts and gave the band even broader exposure on the Top 40 \/ Pop Culture landscape. The album cover became immediately recognizable (the Apocalyptic imagery seemed to mesh well with the band&#8217;s burgeoning self-aggrandizing mythos) and instantly iconic, an immutable hallmark of the entire Kiss brand.<\/p>\n<p>So how does the album itself hold up?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest with you: I used to slag on <em>Destroyer<\/em>. A *lot*. It was always elevated by most as Kiss&#8217;s &#8220;best&#8221; album, or their most &#8220;quintessential&#8221; or &#8220;iconic&#8221;. People often point to it as the best Kiss &#8220;starter&#8221; album if you&#8217;re trying to get into the band&#8217;s music. I found the deafening hype to be rather aggravating. And the album isn&#8217;t this perfect slab of 70s hard rock; there are a few quizzical tracks on the record, either out-and-out filler or just plain bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>And yet over time, I&#8217;ve come to really enjoy <em>Destroyer<\/em>. Removed from the effusiveness of its hype, it remains one of the strongest Kiss albums in their entire catalog. What Bob Ezrin did was expand the band&#8217;s musical palette and production potential; a move that, at the time, alienated a few of the band&#8217;s earlier, more &#8216;hardcore&#8217; fans who pooh-pooh&#8217;ed the slick, polished, more commercial and audience-embracing shift into Top 40-ville. Phooey on them. While this would be taken to some strange and often terrible extremes in future albums, it worked really well for <em>Destroyer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a host of Kiss concert standards here, with stalwarts like &#8220;Detroit Rock City&#8221;, &#8220;Shout It Out Loud&#8221;, &#8220;Beth&#8221;, and &#8220;God Of Thunder&#8221;, plus other popular tunes like &#8220;King Of The Night Time World&#8221; and &#8220;Do You Love Me?&#8221;. Those six tracks alone are instantly recognizable among fans and somewhat recognizable among casual- or even non-fans. Almost all of them are pretty much great tunes. &#8220;Detroit Rock City&#8221;, for example, is one of those massively overplayed songs that I still never tire of. Compare that to, say, 1975&#8217;s cringe-inducing &#8220;Rock And Roll All Nite&#8221;, which still makes me climb a tree and weep incessantly. DRC has a drive and intensity and fist-pumping anthemic quality that holds up really well after multiple listens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beth&#8221; was the big hit and a massive departure for the band, Peter Criss&#8217;s standout moment with the band. It&#8217;s maudlin, syrupy, and dripping with all the accoutrements of over-produced mid-70s love ballads. And it&#8217;s still a fine song. &#8220;God Of Thunder&#8221; is also an iconic Gene tune (ironically written by Paul, whose original demo features an entirely different feel and tempo), but on <em>Destroyer<\/em> it comes off as a slow, limp, meandering track. Now go listen to it on <em>Alive II<\/em> and see what happens when it comes to life with power and ferocity. The live version completely smokes the studio track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shout It Out Loud&#8221; is a classic Kiss tune and an obvious attempt to repeat the anthemic success of &#8220;Rock And Roll All Nite&#8221;, this time with dueling vocals by Paul and Gene that leads into one of their most harmonically-pleasing choruses to date. It&#8217;s a silly song, but a fun one. &#8220;Do You Love Me?&#8221; is even sillier, just this dopey Paul ode to someone getting to know the &#8220;REAL ME&#8221; instead of the trappings of Kiss success. Strangely enough though, it works; the larger-than-life production of the song lends the song a credible air of &#8220;the Starchild leaving the heavens and coming to Earth with heartfelt earnestness&#8221; or some other such nonsense. &#8220;King Of The Night Time World&#8221; is an OK tune, an uptempo rocker that doesn&#8217;t wear out its welcome and does what it&#8217;s supposed to do; amplify the self-aggrandizement of the band (specifically Paul) with distorted guitars and thundering drums and all that goes along with it.<\/p>\n<p>This now leads to the three album tracks that don&#8217;t seem to gather much attention: &#8220;Sweet Pain&#8221;, &#8220;Flaming Youth&#8221;, and &#8220;Great Expectations&#8221;. Let&#8217;s start with the latter; &#8220;Great Expectations&#8221; is a Gene number that sounds like a cross-pollination Jim Steinman and Richard O&#8217;Brien. It wouldn&#8217;t have been entirely out-of-place on either <em>Bat Out Of Hell<\/em> or the <em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> soundtrack. I think it&#8217;s almost a decent album track&#8230; at least until that absolutely horrible chorus. The rotten kids choir towards the end of the song really underscores this observation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flaming Youth&#8221; is this teen empowerment power pop song from Paul that is probably the biggest departure from anything else he had recorded to date, and probably the first hint that Paul had a really strong ear for good pop melodies. The song itself isn&#8217;t much; it&#8217;s interesting and has some cool moments, but it&#8217;s filler in the end. Finally, &#8220;Sweet Pain&#8221; is the only real clunker on the album. It probably would have been a decent track on Gene&#8217;s 1978 solo album, where it would have stood out nicely (faint praise, indeed), but it&#8217;s just not that good. I like some of the guitar work, with lead guitar performed by Dick Wagner instead of Ace Frehley (Frehley&#8217;s solo would eventually resurface in the 2012 re-mix of the album).<\/p>\n<p>So even removed from all the hype, <strong>Destroyer<\/strong> is still essential Kiss and is easily one of their &#8220;big&#8221; albums. The big songs and big hits are there, and Ezrin brought the big production values. The band&#8217;s musical toolbox was widened and the added sophistication brought to their straightforward rock approach adds to album&#8217;s appeal. Kiss would scale commercial heights in the years (and decades) to come, but musically they never got &#8220;bigger&#8221; than <strong>Destroyer.<\/strong> It set the &#8220;classic&#8221; tone for much of their appeal and approach for nearly the entirety of their career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destroyer was Kiss&#8217;s larger-than-life effort to keep momentum rolling after the multi-platinum success of their landmark 1975 live album Alive!. 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