Album · AC/DC
Black Ice by AC/DC
Black Ice is an album by AC/DC, released in 2008. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Rock n roll train”, on 14 lists with a best position of #17.
Black Ice, AC/DC's 15th studio album, hit the racks in October 2008, a full eight years after Stiff Upper Lip and the longest wait the band had ever made anyone sit through. Cliff Williams's injury and a jump from Elektra to Sony slowed things down, but the band finally cut it in March and April 2008 at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver with Brendan O'Brien producing. O'Brien steered them away from the bluesy lean of the last record and back toward the early rock sound, even coaxing some soul crooning out of Brian Johnson, while engineer Mike Fraser kept the overdubs sparse and the takes mostly live.
It's the old machine running hot, Phil Rudd's backbeat nailed to the floor and Malcolm's rhythm chopping like an axe. It went to number one in 29 countries, "War Machine" won a Grammy, and it turned out to be Malcolm's last studio record with the band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Black Ice on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock n roll train | 14 | #17 | – | 2008–2020 | |
| 2 | Anything goes | 1 | #24 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.