Artist: KISS
Album: DESTROYER REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1976/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 0731453237827
Media type: CD

Destroyer is the fourth studio album and fifth album overall by hard/glam rock band Kiss.

Coming on the heels of the group's breakthrough album Alive!, Destroyer is easily the most ambitious studio recording of Kiss's '70s catalogue. Bob Ezrin, who had previously worked with Alice Cooper, was brought in to produce the album. Among the production flourishes Ezrin introduced to Kiss were sound effects, strings, screaming children (on "God Of Thunder") backwards drums (Also on "God of Thunder") as well as a children's choir.

Destroyer is the first Kiss album to prominently feature outside musicians, such as members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. However, one musician was not credited: Dick Wagner, from Alice Cooper's band, replaced Ace Frehley on tracks such as "Sweet Pain" (as Frehley didn't want to interrupt a card game he was playing during recording sessions for the song) and even on a song that Frehley himself co-wrote "Flaming Youth". Wagner also played the acoustic guitar found on the song "Beth".[1] The success of Alive! and Destroyer enabled the band to embark on their first tour of Europe.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 496 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

It was certified Platinum on April 22, 1976, when it sold 1,000,000 copies

The original sleeve mock-up had the band in their earlier stage attire.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Detroit Rock City" (Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin) – 5:20
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
02 "King of the Night Time World" (Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony, Stanley, Ezrin) – 3:13
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
03 "God of Thunder" (Stanley) – 4:13
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
04 "Great Expectations" (Gene Simmons, Ezrin) – 4:21
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
05 "Flaming Youth" (Ace Frehley, Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin) – 2:55
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
06 "Sweet Pain" (Simmons) – 3:20
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
07 "Shout It Out Loud" (Simmons, Stanley, Ezrin) – 2:50
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons
08 "Beth" (Peter Criss, Stan Penridge, Ezrin) – 2:45
Lead vocals - Peter Criss
09 "Do You Love Me" (Fowley, Ezrin, Stanley) – 3:33
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
10 "Rock 'n Roll Party" (Simmons, Stanley, Ezrin) – 1:25
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley

LINE-UP:

Gene Simmons - Bass guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Paul Stanley - Rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Ace Frehley - Lead guitar
Peter Criss - Drums, lead vocals on Beth, backing vocals