Black Ice Review: Critics Summary

Music critics and fans with AC/DC tickets cannot get enough of AC/DC’s 15th earth-shaking rock album Black Ice!

AC/DC: About Black Ice & Tour
AC/DC’s 15th album Black Ice is a worldwide hit with rock fans and music critics alike! Black Ice is AC/DC’s return to rock after an eight-year absence. AC/DC’s Black Ice offers up raucous hard rock riffs by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young and ear-piercing high notes by none other than Brian Johnson. With AC/DC tickets, you’ll be front and center for AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour!

With AC/DC tickets, AC/DC fans will hear new AC/DC songs "Rock 'n' Roll Train" and “War Machine” on the Black Ice World Tour. Fans with AC/DC tickets will also hear the classic AC/DC songs “Back in Black” and “Whole Lotta Rosie” among others. With AC/DC tour dates scheduled across the country, don’t miss out on owning premium AC/DC tickets from OnlineTickets.com today!

Here’s what some critics have been saying about AC/DC’s latest album Black Ice:

Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone:

• “Black Ice is [AC/DC’s] best argument in years — maybe decades — that evolution is for suckers.”
• “And for the first time since 1990's The Razor's Edge reached Generation Beavis, guitarists Malcolm and Angus Young have written tunes worthy of their musical muscle.”
• “Another instant classic, "Big Jack," has the swagger of a long-lost Back in Black track.”

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David Marchese, Spin Magazine:

• “Black Ice may be AC/DC’s first album in eight years, but as soon as Angus’ and Malcolm Young’s guitars start stabbing holes in your speakers on leadoff track ‘Rock’n’Roll Train,’ it’s as if nothing’s changed.”
• “When the Youngs lock horns on the hooky ‘She Likes Rock’n’Roll,’ they expose all their ax mimics -- i.e., everyone from Buckcherry to Montgomery Gentry -- as mere schoolboys in knee pants.”
• “AC/DC still sound strong and hungry 35 years on, as if they could pulverize riffs in perpetuity.”

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic:

• “As it opens with the "Highway to Hell" boogie of "Rock N Roll Train," the stuttering "Skies on Fire" and "Big Jack," it seems that Black Ice might be the great latter-day AC/DC record.”
• “When a band does one thing this well there's no need to change.”
• “AC/DC still sound invigorating.”

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Chuck Eddy, Blender Magazine:

• “Only jerks don’t love AC/DC.”
• “Sometimes [AC/DC] surprises you, nailing the signature sounds of their ’70s boogie-metal brethren: Led Zeppelin in the pensive high-water blues ‘Rock n Roll Dream,’ ZZ Top in the barbecue-fired ‘Decibel,’ Nazareth in the uncharacteristically overcast ‘Stormy May Day.’”
• “[Black Ice tracks] ’Anything Goes’ and ‘Big Jack’ rev up like fast machines with clean motors.”