AC/DC – Black Ice

ac/dc recorded the 15 tracks for their first studio album in eight years at vancouver earlier this year with producer brendan o’brien, who has worked with pearl jam, rage against the machine and bruce springsteen. ‘black ice’ features ac/dc singer brian johnson wailing “about skies on fire, blood in his eyes, storms raging, lightning flashes, hard rain and pretty women”. angus young (guitar) shreds throughout (check the slide work on ‘decibel’), and the rhythm cats – malcom young (guitar), cliff williams (bass) and phil rudd (drums) – are solid as a rock. the first single is ‘rock ‘n roll train’; ‘she likes rock ‘n roll’ will be a stripper anthem; and ‘war machine’ will tear you to pieces.