This one's for Mal

We're nearing the holiday season, and POWER UP hit number one straight away in most countries, 1 month after AC/DC brought it to the world. I haven't been very active on the blog, because the most important messages are out there already, through a tremendous communication plan from the band (yeah! Zoom!) on the one hand, and laudatory reviews from fans on the other.  They were all right.  This (almost) was 2020 and the release of this album by my favorite band is about all I want to remember from it.

About souvenirs, November also marked the remembering of Malcolm.   I'd like to share this one thing, fan made, but straight from and to the heart.  Mal would have been proud.

Enjoy the holiday season - with Through The Mists Of Time as a soundtrack, and bang into the new year with the rest of the album.  Long live AC/DC.

#PWRUP the World !

Now the word is finally out, it's barely believable but we will get what we have been looking out for a very long time! 

• There will be a new AC/DC record!  With Power UP, AC/DC rises again from the ashes like a rock n roll phoenix, in a tribute to Malcolm, just like Black in Black, released 40 years ago was a tribute to Bon Scott.  Malcolm is in spirit all over the album as Angus recycled some of the many riffs he and Malcolm had put 'in a box'.
  
• Out 13 November, just in time to save the year! Angus' "Magic Cure"!
  
• Recorded in Vancouver at Brian Adam's Warehouse Studios
• Counting 12 tracks around 4 minutes each with already classic AC/DC titles - non of which have the word ROCK in the title:

            01. Realize    
            02. Rejection
            03. Shot In The Dark
            04. Through The Mists Of Time
            05. Kick You When You’re Down
            06. Witch’s Spell
            07. Demon Fire
            08. Wild Reputation
            09. No Man’s Land
            10. Systems Down
            11. Money Shot
            12. Code Red  

• First single is Shot in the Dark and was released this Wednesday (at 6 o'clock for Europeans.... of course, it needs to be dark still)!

1.  The classic lineup is back on the roll: Brian is back, Phil is back,  Cliff un-retired (how cool is that!), Stevie and Angus.  Well, Angus never left. 

2. Malcolm was always present but won't be heard playing on the album, according to Mike Fraser in a radio interview earlier today.  Angus returned to Australia, took a long break and then began poring through an extensive backlog of unreleased songs he’d written over the years with Malcolm. The majority of them come from the period preparing Black Ice in 2008 - when not playing video games. “There was a lot of great song ideas from that time,” Angus says. “At that time he said to me, ‘We’ll leave these songs for now. If we keep going, we’ll be overboard. We’ll get them on the next one.’ That always stuck with me. When I went through and listened to them, I said, ‘If I do anything in my life, I have to get these tracks down and get these tracks out.'”   So Malcolm's spirit keeps inspiring Angus.  What else!? Stevie does a great job, really, as he's able to get so close to Malcolm's signature style.

2. The first track from the album is called Shot in the Dark, as given away early by the hashtag creation on Twitter.  We got 30 seconds of the song and it hits you like a hammer.  The track will be released on Wednesday 6 am CET (for the early birds!) According to this car brand, track duration of Shot in the Dark is 4:20 (second 9 of this commercial):

3. After posters popping up worldwide (even in front of Angus's former shool in Sydney), a giant neon sign popped up today riverside London. It got removed 24h later.

Are You Ready ? Been too long, glad to be back.

Just when you almost wished that the earth would have stopped turning before this miserable year 2020 even started, it seems like we're going to blow the Covid19 virus out of our lungs while chanting to what will appear to be the first and most effective vaccine! Brought to you by the doctors of rock 'n roll AC/DC.  I don't know exactly what to expect, but the AC/DC mainframe just put their POWER / UP.  With one flick of the switch some new pictures appeared for a couple of hours on the official ACDC.COM website.  The neon light sputters and buzzes like an old cracker, but it's a good sign that soon the mighty AC/DC amps will be turned up high again!

 

I've been too long I'm glad to be back! Why it has been so quiet in this place?  It has always been our policy to only update the blog with official news, which unfortunately was very sad news.  Many rumors and Louie the Fly pictures have crossed the interwebs and airwaves ever since.  So although nothing is official, it's no longer a question of IF something will happen but WHEN.  As to exactly WHAT will happen, we are getting cues and hopefully we will know more pretty soon.  Posters with PWR/UP appear across lands all over the world.  The tension is unbearable but it will soon strike like a Shot in the Dark.  

 

Spoiler.  We've seen a recent album release (Tool's Fear Inoculum) with a video screen in its package. Will we see the improved version of the Backtracks Amp?  Or a contemporary version of the good old 90's Australian Boom Box? 

 

For sure, there's gonna be some rockin'....   Stay tuned as the story unfolds.

Update 30 September: great to see the guys are back!