The world-renowned Aussies hard-rockers are back into prime time with a new release entitled Black Ice. And God it was about time that AC/DC delivered its fans some new music. The band’s last record, Stiff Upper Lip, hit the shelves back in 2000 (8 years ago). It was definitely about time! But believe me my friends, the wait was worth it because Black Ice is once again another excellent release from AC/DC.

There are no surprises in Black Ice: pure hard-rock songs recorded in AC/DC’s classic style, i.e. with a tint of blues. Brian Johnson’s voice is still as good as it was 8 years ago. No sign of fatigue here! Angus Young’s riffs are still edgy and persuasive. Cliff William’s bass guitar, Phil Rudd’s drums, Malcom Young’s rhythm guitar, everything is very tight.

I invite you to take a look at the album’s booklet to see what 8 years do on rockers in their late 50’s. The guys look quite older hahaha… William now has almost all-white hair. Rudd now sports Elvis-style sideburns. I love it hehehehe… But Angus starts to look a bit silly in his classic schoolboy uniform. But a trademark is a trademarks and you can’t touch this! So in the end it’s fine with me!

Rock And Roll Train is my favorite song on the album. Wheels is quite good either, so are Big Jack and Rock N Roll Dream. The latter one, though, has a slower beat which makes us feel that it’s almost a ballad (but is it not). The rest of the songs sound like stuff we already heard from AC/DC. Black Ice is definitely a collectionner item, a keeper as we say. Not a groundbreaking album but It’s worth a good 8,5/10. Long live to AC/DC and I just hope I’ll be able to see them in show once in my life.