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Black Ice - AC/DC

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griffo346

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Albert Productions and SonyBMG Australia announces the worldwide release of "Black Ice," the long awaited new studio album from AC/DC, on Saturday, October 18.

"Black Ice," the first full-length studio album of all-new material from AC/DC since the release of "Stiff Upper Lip" in 2000, is the band’s debut album for Columbia Records, (New York Based label for SonyBMG) and their 18th for Australia’s Albert Productions.

Produced by Brendan O'Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC, "Black Ice" premieres 15 new AC/DC compositions and performances including the album's first single, "Rock 'N' Roll Train," slated to impact radio around the world on August 28 with a video debuting in September.

"No Bull: The Director's Cut," a newly edited expanded DVD edition of AC/DC's historic performance at Madrid's Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas on July 10, 1996, will be released worldwide on August 30, 2008. "No Bull: The Director's Cut" has been remixed in Dolby Digital Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and includes the original concert showcasing more than two hours of music as well as bonus features.

AC/DC will embark on a major world tour, the group's first since 2001, beginning late October.

http://www.accessallareas.net.au/music_news/EkEApuElpZadolrNXf.php
 
Nuke

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The only AC/DC related show I've ever been to the Bon Scott Celebration Concert here in Perth beginning of last year. It had artists like The Angels, The Screaming Jets, Dave Evans (the original AC/DC singer - prior to Bon Scott), one of the guys from Staus Quo, Rose Tattoo, and was to raise money for a statue of Bon in Fremantle (which I believe is now in place - and has been for most of this year ... I'm yet to see it yet but). I would love to see AC/DC live, and am waiting patiently for them to tour Australia. Hopefully they come to Perth!
 
The Colonel

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The verdict on AC/DC's new album

By NEWS.com.au editor, David Higgins August 29, 2008 12:00am

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Winner ... Australian rockers AC/DC have "delivered their best album in decades" says NEWS.com.au editor, David Higgins / Supplied

AUSTRALIAN rockers AC/DC have delivered their best album in decades, based on a sample of tracks from the upcoming album Black Ice.

NEWS.com.au today heard seven tracks from the new album in the studios of the band’s Sydney headquarters, Albert Music.


The songs – Anything Goes, War Machine, Stormy May Day, She Likes Rock N Roll, Money Made and Black Ice, along with the current single Rock N’ Roll Train – suggest the band has made a remarkable return to form after a series of fan-only albums in recent years.
Judging by these songs, the 15-track album is the band’s most consistent and accessible release since Back in Black.




Anything Goes has the potential to be the band’s biggest hit since You Shook Me All Night Long if released - under one plan - as a second single.
Opening with a guitar sound that recalls Bon Scott’s bagpipes in Long Way to the Top, Anything Goes is a delicious 1970s tune with blood-pumping, 2008 production values.
The Young brothers would disagree, but it is the closest thing to a pop song the band has done and will pull in many new fans.
The songs heard today draw from periods throughout the band’s career.
Black Ice is a head-banging anthem from the For Those About to Rock era, with a riff as good as any the Youngs have written.
War Machine is a hard and fast affair reminiscent of Back in Black’s Given The Dog a Bone.
Money Made is a bass-heavy boogie with guitar chords that seem to hang back, teasing, before sling-shotting into a chorus from the Blow Up Your Video era.
Stormy May Day offers something new - a huge over-driven slide guitar hook that is a favourite in the Alberts studio.
Producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, The Offspring) and long-time AC/DC mixer Mike Fraser should take a major credit for the album, delivering a very contemporary sound -- probably the best production value of any AC/DC album to date.
The vocals are one of the big surprises of the album. In a modern medical miracle, front man Brian Johnson’s vocal chords have patched themselves up to deliver his best vocal performance since the 1980s.
O’Brien has also worked hard on the back-up vocals, which makes a tremendous difference in the choruses.
This is not Back in Black. It won’t sell the 45 million copies of the 1980 classic.
But on a first listen it is by far the best thing AC/DC has produced in a quarter of a century.
* Black Ice is due out in Australia on October 18 and around the world on October 20.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,24261415-7624,00.html
 
Simo

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doesnt do to much for me but im not really a huge AC/DC fan. Its ok but not one of their most catchy in my opinion.
 
Knightmare

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It sounds more like late '70s ACDC, when Bon was at his peak. Same went for Stiff Upper Lip, their last album.
 
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