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Destroyer by Kiss
Destroyer is an album by Kiss, released in 1976. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 131 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Detroit Rock City”, on 78 lists with a best position of #13.
Destroyer, Kiss's fourth studio album, came out on Casablanca on March 15, 1976, and it's the record where the greasepaint gang from New York City stopped sounding like a garage band in costume. Bob Ezrin produced it at Electric Lady Studios and threw out the raw, bare-knuckle sound of the first three albums, dressing the riffs up in studio muscle and theatrical flourishes worthy of the stage show.
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons share the lead vocals, with Ace Frehley on lead guitar and Peter Criss behind the kit, and they play to their comic-book characters: "Detroit Rock City" roars off the line, "Shout It Out Loud" is a fist-pumping singalong, "God of Thunder" stomps with real menace, and "Beth" is a surprise, a soft ballad in the middle of all that thunder. It went gold within weeks and platinum by November, the first Kiss album to get there, and it was their first to chart in Germany and New Zealand.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Destroyer on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit Rock City#485 of all time | 78 | #13 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | Beth | 28 | #87 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 3 | Shout It Out Loud | 22 | #217 | – | 1990–2024 | |
| 4 | God of Thunder | 3 | #483 | – | 1990–1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.