Black Ice ［CD+DVD］＜初回生産限定盤＞

結成から35年、約9年ぶりとなるブランニュー15作目の生産限定仕様である本作は、オリジナル・アルバム全15曲収録のCDに、リード・トラック『Rock N Roll Train』ヴィデオとそのメイキングを収録したボーナスDVDを加え、さらにステッカー5枚、巨大AC/DC旗、またギブソン社とのダブル・ネーム・ギター・ピックを収納したスペシャル・スチール・ボックス仕様限定盤！

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..."

前作『Stiff Upper Lip』から約8年ぶりとなる新作が到着!　ギターのイントロと一発目のスネアの音だけでリスナーを跪かせる冒頭曲“Rock 'N Roll Train”から、不変にして普遍、永久不滅のAC／DC流ロックンロールが大展開されている。基本路線は変わるわけもないが、音作りに関して言えばむしろ前作よりも若々しくなったように感じるのは気のせいか?　シンプルだが奥が深い、頑固一徹ロック職人の匠の技を堪能すべし! 　　
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