LORDI Mainman Mr. Lordi - KISS' "Destroyer Is A Huge Album"
May 18, 2007, 17 years ago
LORDI mainman Mr. Lordi (real name: Tomi Putaansuu) spoke to Classic Rock Magazine's Greg Plato about KISS' classic Destroyer album recently.
"It was the first KISS album I owned," he says. "It wasn't the first KISS album that I heard, that was Creatures Of The Night. I was just a little kid back then. I went to a record store and thought I'd buy just the KISS album - I didn't know that there were plenty of KISS albums. I was like, 'Whoah! So many to choose from!' I had no idea where to start - I thought Destroyer was the coolest.It has so much nostalgia for me. It has 'God Of Thunder' - my all-time favorite song from KISS - one of my favorite songs period. I remember the first time I was listening to the album, with all the theatrical parts - the few seconds of 'radio theatre,' if you will, at the beginning [of 'Detroit Rock City']. I was scared shitless! It was terrifying. But I loved it!
KISS have so many different albums and so many different musical styles it's like a deck of cards. Destroyer is different. I think it's the first big-sounding album KISS did. The first three albums are more like rock 'n roll albums; Destroyer is a huge album. It doesn't matter how low the volume, it sounds big. Of course, there are so many production tricks, with the piano powering up the chords, and the orchestrations and stuff. I think a lot of thanks goes to [producer] Bob Ezrin, because the next album that really sticks out in the KISS catalogue is The Elder [1981], which is Bob Ezrin again.
I still think Destroyer really has something unique in its feel; as a whole it has something really fresh to this day."
(Thanks Kissasylum.com)
