KISS DESTROYER, the 50th Anniversary with Author James Campion

Three Sides of the Coin – A KISS Podcast and Radio Show

Michael Brandvold, Tommy Sommers, Mark Cicchini and Lisa Martini

Music, Music History, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.3 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Episode 660. James Campion author of Shout It Out Loud: The Story of Kiss’s Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon joins us this week as we look at KISS DESTROYER 50 years later. This trip down memory lane isn’t limited to Destroyer, but we talk about so much more… 50 years later.

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Since launching in 2012 Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 6,000,000 times. Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, Eddie Trunk, AEW Superstar and lead singer of Fozzy Chris Jericho, Angel lead guitarist Punky Meadows, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Slaughter lead singer Mark Slaughter, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, comedian Craig Gass, KISS’ former business manager Chris Lendt, the Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley’s Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss’ drum tech), Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS’ Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was picked (October 2013) as a ‘What’s Hot’ podcast by Apple’s iTunes.

In the early ’90s, Michael Brandvold launched the fifth ever website on the Internet devoted to KISS, KISS Otaku. He built, launched and maintained Kissonline.com (KISS’ official web presence). He now owns Michael Brandvold Marketing, providing marketing services and digital strategy to musicians. Tommy Sommers spent 15 years on the record show circuit collecting, trading and selling memorabilia / Kiss merchandise. He is now a successful residential Real Estate agent in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. Tommy has also produced a KISS song For The Oddfathers and is the owner of Rock Steady Digital Photography. Mark Cicchini, is a world renown KISS collector. KISS have used parts of Mark’s vast KISS collection for audio, video & print materials including their book NOTHIN TO LOSE, CD re release of the LOVE GUN album & the VH1 Ultimate Album KISS ALIVE! special as well as many other KISS projects. His wife also makes a mean meatloaf!!!

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0:00.0	This week, three sides of the coin.
0:02.5	It took us 11 years, but this author finally joins us.
0:07.3	Shout it out loud, the story of Kisses Destroyer.
0:10.6	Isn't that also kind of about the same timeline?
0:13.1	It took us 11 years to get them on the show, but it actually came out 11 years ago
0:18.9	versus having an author on 11 years ago
0:21.7	whose book still hasn't come out.
0:25.2	Oh,
0:26.2	summer Ross is going,
0:28.0	out!
0:28.7	What the fuck was,
0:29.7	is it bleeding?
0:32.1	And I just get punched in the nose over the internet?
0:35.7	Oh,
0:36.2	the good,
0:36.6	good episode, lots of timeline, memories, stories, discussions this week all about Destroyer and just music in general.
0:45.3	Three Sides of the Coin has moved to a brand new YouTube channel.
0:49.3	Please hit the subscribe button below so you don't miss future episodes on YouTube.
0:59.4	This is Three Sides of the Coin talking all things.
1:10.2	So you love the show, visit www.3Sides of thecoin.com, subscribe on YouTube, follow and rate us on Spotify, subscribe and leave a review on iTunes. We appreciate your support.
1:13.0	Everybody, welcome back to another episode of Three Sides of the Coin. Thank God, Tommy and I are back to
1:20.3	save the fucking show. Oh, no kidding. We were actually talking about doing some kind of avatar AI to put the two of us in
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