AC/DC - Black Ice

Columbia
Published November 6, 2008  by Kenna Burima in CD Reviews

Sure, you get predictable after laying the smack down on rock ’n’ roll for 35-odd years. If you’re AC/DC, though, the prospect of changing may be just too large an undertaking — and why change if what you’ve got still works? On Black Ice, their 15th studio album, it’s obvious that Angus Young, Brian Johnson et al. still got it. It must be a daunting venture every time the group sits down to pen their next album. Where do you go after “Thunderstruck,” “Hell’s Bells” or “Back in Black,” to name three in a string of balls-out classics? What is a band of aging rock stars (albeit rock stars that still fit into their stage gear) to do? Why, churn out much of the same, of course. That said, Black Ice far surpasses most modern mainstream rock fare. The anthems, the solos, the screaming and the blues-tinged crunch of tracks like “Money Made” and “Stormy May Day” (in which Young plays slide guitar for the first time) makes Black Ice worthwhile.



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