Black Ice

Rolling Stone (p.123) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best stuff nearly lives up to their career peaks, especially 'Rock N Roll Train,' where the brothers Young toss fat, slashing chords at each other like knife jugglers." Rolling Stone (p.94) - Ranked #41 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[With] muscular production and unexpected rhythm change-ups." Spin (p.87) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "AC/DC still sound strong and hungry 35 years on, as if they could pulverize riffs in perpetuity." Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "The Aussie outfit's first album in eight years kicks off with the single 'Rock N Roll Train,' a meaty, medium-paced riff assault with a terrific, growling performance from singer Brian Johnson..." Uncut - 3 stars out of 5 -- "On 'Black Ice' itself, O'Brien marshals a sort of militarised hysteria, built around Malcolm Young's dogged tracking of the rhythm section." Kerrang (Magazine) (p.60) - Ranked #17 in Kerrang's Best Albums Of The Year 2008 -- "The song remains the same, but when it's as good as the one AC/DC have written, it still sounds brand, spanking new." Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's an urgent, raw, committed and unreconstructed work....A real return to form....Vital and vitalising." Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #48 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[A]n exemplary splurge of monolithic riffage." Blender (Magazine) (p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Anything Goes' and 'Big Jack' rev up like fast machines with clean motors." Record Collector (magazine) (p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Spoilin' For A Fight' is the kind of hugely infectious fist-clenching, fringe-whipping chant-along at which they've always excelled, while 'She Likes Rock'n'Roll is equally sure-footed..."