Black Ice - AC/DC

AC/DC's latest release - Black Ice is certainly one of their better albums of recent times. It features 15 hard rocking, head banging, classic sounding AC/DC tracks. The first track on the Album, Rock n Roll Train opens with an extremely powerful guitar riff that then breaks into a brilliant mix of hard hitting drums and guitar. This song, whilst not the title track has probably become the most famous of the new album and was used as the opening song for the Black Ice World Tour which I was lucky enough to see at Hampden Stadium, Glasgow. The highlights of this album for me are Rock n Roll Train, Big Jack, Anything Goes, Wheels and Black Ice. All ...  Read the complete review

It was a long wait. 8 years to be exact, but October last year saw the highly anticipated released of AC/DC's 15th studio album, 'Black Ice', and in my opinion this is one of their best albums. The band : Angus Young - Lead Guitar Malcolm Young - Rhythm Guitar Brian Johnson - Vocals Cliff Williams - Bass Phil Rudd - Drums In their 8 year absence, Angus and Malcolm Young had continued to write music and although there were several rumours of a new album coming, I must admit as the years rolled by I was beginning to think it was not going to happen. If it had not been for an injury to bassist Cliff Williams, which ...  Read the complete review

Angus, Brian and the boys are back after an 8 year long hiatus, with nothing but a few DVDs and the odd hint at what was to come to tide us over. We were promised harder riffs (we are always promised harder riffs! It is AC/DC after all!) and Brian back on lyric writing duties in what was shaping up to be a very big release. When I first put it on I had already heard the lead single Rock'n'Roll (or Runaway) Train so it was good to hear this kicking things off. A solid stomper which was also used to great effect as the opener at the live shows in April 2009. After that, I have to confess that on first listen, the album washed over me without a lot of standout ...  Read the complete review

Black Ice is the first AC/DC album in 8 years and surprised me a bit, I wasn't aware it was coming out until a month before its release when it was advertised at the local metro station. Intrigued how the old school rockers would sound now, I knew it was one that had to be added to my collection. My initial thought was that it was a bit haggard, the first track Rock N Roll Train didn't really have me rocking out as I had expected it to - in fact it sounded like a melange of tracks from older classic albums but without the catchiness in lyrics, Brian Johnson's vocals are nasally as ever and in the first two tracks - he could be saying just about anything, this ...  Read the complete review

I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that AC/DC had released this new album; their first album for eight years! I had no idea that they were recording a new album until it was advertised on television and then to my even further surprise, I heard that it had reached number on in the UK album charts. This on it's own in an impressive feat in a time when heavy rock music is only just managing to rear it's head from the underground into which is was pushed all those years ago. If it wasn't for the likes of the Guitar Hero computer game and Gene Simmon's Rock School then I imagine that rock music would still be underground, so to speak. In all honesty, I ...  Read the complete review