"It was a different way to work, and was very adamant in terms of the lyrics that it not be what we had done before, which was really singing about our experiences as a rock band, sex and partying. "Some of those songs were created from bits and pieces, and it was exciting," Stanley says of the Destroyer process. 19 that features a remastered version of the album, a batch of previously unreleased demos (including " Detroit Rock City" and an acoustic guitar version of "Beth"), single edits and a May 1976 concert from Paris. It was a matter of taking off the blinders and seeing things in IMAX."Įven though Destroyer marked its 45th anniversary in March, Kiss will celebrate with the release of a new Super Deluxe edition on Nov. Bob was a taskmaster, but he brought out something in us that we fought for. The collaboration with him was an education, really. "We were a bunch of guys who had suddenly hit the big time and really didn't have the acumen or the discipline to take it to the next step, and Bob Ezrin was intrinsic in that happening.
Stanley, in fact, remembers Destroyer as "a do-or-die project for us, because we were coming off this live album that had broken us to the public and made us a phenomenon, and we were aware that we could just as easily go back to where we had been just before Kiss Alive!, and we had to make sure the next album transcended what we had done before and up our game. But ultimately more songs from Destroyer over the years have been in our shows and in the set than any others." And I think some people were thrown by all of that. "We had never used pianos, and I don't mean as frills on a song, but we actually fortified guitars with pianos to make the chords bigger.
"There were a lot of things going on that we hadn't done," Stanley says. The issue, Stanley notes, was that in stepping up its game with producer Bob Ezrin - then a veteran of classic albums for Alice Cooper and Lou Reed - the band entered a kind of depth and sonic polish that was foreign, and on first listen off-putting for those who liked their Kiss raw and sloppy. Its initial singles, however - " Shout It Out Loud" and " Flaming Youth" - fell well below " Rock and Roll All Nite's" Top 15 peak. 11 on the Billboard 200, Kiss' best showing, and, over time, to double-platinum sales. The aftermath of Alive!'s breakthrough success did help push Destroyer to No.
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