DESTROYER
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DESTROYER
Destroyer is the fourth studio album by American rock band Kiss, released on March 15, 1976 by Casablanca Records in the US. It was the third successive Kiss album to reach the top 40 in the US, as well as the first to chart in Germany and New Zealand. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on April 22, 1976, and platinum on November 11 of the same year, the first Kiss album to achieve platinum. The album marked a departure from the raw sound of the band's first three albums.
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Robert Christgau
these guys have always rocked better than adults were willing to enjoy, but pro producer Bob Ezrin adds only bombast and melodrama. Their least interesting record
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Don Ignacio
And therefore, let us drop everything and celebrate Destroyer as the first wholly solid Kiss studio album that was ever released. …..............in my bungled opinion.
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Hokey Blog!
2015 - It set the “classic” tone for much of their appeal and approach for nearly the entirety of their career.
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Heavy Music headquarters
While the filler tracks on Destroyer can be cringe-worthy, the staple tracks are top notch.
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Starling
I don't like this album. Is that clear?
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Rolling Stone
Kiss still lacks that flash of creative madness that could have made their music interesting, or at least listenable.
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All Music
Destroyer is one of Kiss' most experimental studio albums, but also one of their strongest and most interesting.
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Classic Rock Review
The result was the most successful album to date, following the modest success of the the first three studio albums, and the launching of Kiss into super-stardom through the late 1970s and beyond.
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Pop Matters
but unless you’re a KISS kompletest, your money is perhaps better spent elsewhere. KISS KASKETS, anyone?
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Mike Ladano
Some of its songs are less than classic. Others are so classic that you can’t imagine the world without them.
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Icon Fetch
2012 - if you don’t already own a copy of this album, this is still representative of the original spirit and is worth grabbing. And, it sure sounds great, even through earbuds.
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Cryptic Rock
2016 - Destroyer is simply a cohesive Rock and Roll record with just enough magic sprinkled in to put it on another level compared to the rest of KISS’ catalog, and similar acts of the era.
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The Top tens
Not only just Party Rock, but something you like to hear over and over again! It's an amazing Album for an awesome band!
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Pop Dose
It is a fun album for the most part, hardly a cerebral exercise into primal musical and psychological patterns in adolescent and pubescent males, and is on the timeline of the band’s releases far and away their best. You wanted it…here it is.
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