While Williams was recovering, the Young brothers perfected the songs they had written.
Bass guitarist Cliff Williams suffered an injury to his hand in 2005 and was unable to play for 18 months. AC/DC left their label Atlantic Records, signed a deal with Sony Music and changed labels within Sony from Epic Records to Columbia Records. The production of Black Ice was delayed for several reasons. During those two years, guitarists Angus Young and Malcolm Young wrote music separately, then met in a London studio to work on new songs. The band took a break after finishing the Stiff Upper Lip World Tour in 2001, and resumed performing in 2003, with eight presentations that included AC/DC's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they opened three concerts for The Rolling Stones' Licks Tour. The album itself was nominated for many awards, including the Grammy, Brit, Juno and ARIA Music Awards and was supported by a world tour between 20.īlack Ice was the final album to feature the Back in Black-era lineup of the band, with founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young leaving the band in September 2014 after being diagnosed with dementia, eventually dying from the illness in 2017.īlack Ice is AC/DC's fifteenth studio album release in Australia and their fourteenth international release. The track "War Machine" won the Best Hard Rock Performance category at the Grammys. Critical reviews were generally positive, praising the music and its resemblance to the classic AC/DC sound, although some critics found the work too long and inconsistent. It was the second best-selling record of 2008, behind Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends and had shipped 6 million copies worldwide by December. Black Ice peaked at number one in 29 countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. The four singles issued from the album were, " Rock 'n' Roll Train", " Big Jack", " Anything Goes", and " Money Made".
Its release was promoted with an extensive marketing campaign, which included displays of AC/DC memorabilia. Walmart got exclusive rights to distribute the album in North America. The songs were mostly recorded live in the studio engineer Mike Fraser used only sparse overdubs and effects to keep the tracks as close to the originals as possible.īlack Ice was released exclusively in physical formats, as the group did not sell its music digitally at the time. O'Brien tried to recapture the rock sound of the band's early work, as opposed to the blues orientation of Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip, with suggestions such as adding " soul crooning" to Brian Johnson's singing. Recording happened during March and April 2008 at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first composing sessions between guitarists/brothers Angus and Malcolm Young were in London in 2003. The album's development was delayed because bass guitarist Cliff Williams sustained an injury and the band changed labels from Elektra Records to Sony Music Entertainment. Black Ice has the longest running time of any AC/DC studio album. It marked the band's first original recordings since 2000's Stiff Upper Lip, with the eight-year gap being the longest between AC/DC's successive studio albums. Released internationally on 20 October 2008, it was produced by Brendan O'Brien. Black Ice is the fifteenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
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