- ARTIST : AC/DC
- TITLE : Black Ice
- LABEL : Columbia
- GENRE : Rock & Roll
- BITRATE : 211 kbps avg
- SOURCE : CD (LP)
- PLAYTIME : 00:55:31
- SIZE : 88.6MB
- STORE DATE : 2008-10-20
- Track List
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- 1. Rock N Roll Train 4:21
- 2. Skies On Fire 3:34
- 3. Big Jack 3:57
- 4. Anything Goes 3:22
- 5. War Machine 3:09
- 6. Smash N Grab 4:06
- 7. Spoilin' For A Fight 3:17
- 8. Wheels 3:28
- 9. Decibel 3:33
- 10. Stormy May Day 3:10
- 11. She Likes Rock N Roll 3:52
- 12. Money Made 4:15
- 13. Rock N Roll Dream 4:40
- 14. Rockin All The Way 3:22
- 15. Black Ice 3:25
- Black Ice is the upcoming fifteenth studio album by
- Australian hard rock band AC/DC, set to be released on
- October 18, 2008 for Australia and October 20 for the
- rest of the world. It will be their first album in eight
- years, since the release of Stiff Upper Lip in 2000, the
- longest gap between AC/DC's studio albums to date. The
- album was produced by Brendan O'Brien and recorded and
- mixed by Mike Fraser at The Warehouse Studio in
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- In a 2004 interview, Brian Johnson revealed that for the
- first time since the 1988 album Blow Up Your Video, he
- would be handling lyrics. He also said that Angus Young
- has written harder riffs than those on Stiff Upper Lip.
- As of January 2006, AC/DC were working on the album, and
- according to Malcolm Young at that time, "The band are
- currently writing and recording material for the eagerly
- anticipated next album, but no release date has been
- set."
- In April 2008, AC/DC's official website confirmed the
- release of the new album with producer Brendan O'Brien
- and audio engineer Mike Fraser, but did not confirm a
- release date.
- In June 2008, Reuters reported that the album would be
- distributed solely by Wal-Mart stores in the United
- States, and that HMV stores in Canada were advertising
- the album with an October release date.
- On August 15, AC/DC recorded the video to accompany the
- first single from the album, "Rock 'n Roll Train", in
- London. Three days later, an announcement was made on the
- band's official website, stating that Black Ice would be
- released on October 20, 2008.
- "Rock n' Roll Train" was released on August 28. The video
- of "Rock n' Roll Train" appeared on the band's website on
- September 19. That day also saw the release of the
- album's second single, "War Machine", and the release of
- a brief appraisal of the album by Rolling Stone magazine,
- citing that "Brian wails about skies on fire, blood in
- his eyes, storms raging, lightning flashes, hard rain and
- pretty women...Angus Young shreds throughout...Malcom
- Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd รน are solid as a
- rock." as well as making a surprise statement that Angus
- Young uses a slide in the song "Stormy May Day". The
- magazine also named several tracks before the official
- release of the track listing.
- Several days after the original version of the album was
- made available for pre-order, the band's website store
- listed two variations of cover artwork available for the
- CD in addition to the original red logo. These were a
- yellow logo and a silver logo. All three versions feature
- the exact same music and content with a black background.
- However, the gray designs behind the band's logo are
- different on each of the two different covers. There is
- also a hardcover Deluxe Edition (blue logo) available
- which will contain a 30-page booklet with exclusive new
- illustrations, studio and live photographs of AC/DC.
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- A Slight note for BPM: it's not our fault if you're
- famous for reencodes etc.
- Just look at your past, and you will find out you are
- pathetic.
- BEAT US IN THIS: 8==========D
