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# New album "Black Ice" for October 27/28th - 7/13/08
# AC/DC's new album, most probably entitled "Black Ice," will be released by Columbia Records on October 28th in North America and 27th in the rest of the world. The first single, "Runaway Train," which was also a contender for the album's title, will be released in late August. Details for a world tour starting in late 2008 should be announced sometime next week, as well as details of the band's inclusion in the next version of the video game "Rock Band."

According to The Pulse of Radio, AC/DC will kick off its first world tour in seven years on Halloween (October 31) in Chicago, a source close to the band has told HardDrive Radio. The tour, which is expected to last 18 months, will come in support of the group's new album, "Black Ice", which is due out on October 28. A single titled "Rock & Roll Train" will arrive at radio stations around August 28.

AC/DC will travel to London, England in early August to shoot a video for "Rock & Roll Train".

As expected, AC/DC will embark on an 18-month world tour beginning this October. Creative Artists Agency managing partner Rob Light confirmed the news during a touring panel today (July 28) at the 83rd annual IAAM conference and trade show in Anaheim, Calif.

Light didn't reveal further details about the trek, which will come in support of AC/DC's upcoming Wal-Mart exclusive release. A single is expected to hit radio in August.

La gira de AC/DC arranca en octubre

Según han informado diversas fuentes, la gira mundial de los australianos AC/DC comenzará en el mes de octubre, concretamente el día 31 en Chicago, EEUU. El tour se prolongará durante 18 meses y será la gran presentación de "Black Ice", el esperado nuevo disco de la banda, que saldrá a la venta el 28 de octubre.

08.08.2008
AC/DC Wants YOU For Their New Video!
Attention AC/DC fans!

On August 15, AC/DC will shoot a video in the UK for their forthcoming album and they need your help. After all, what good's a video without the electricity surging through the crowd? That's where you come in.

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Fans must be in the Central London area, and available from 3pm to Midnight on August 15 to take part in the video shoot. Fill out our form, cross your fingers and next thing you know you might find yourself immortalized in the new AC/DC video.

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Sweet vindication! Last year in this column, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson promised that they’d tour in 2008. Well, he wasn’t kidding. Soon they’ll begin rehearsals in a secret location, before hitting U.S. arenas in late fall. We heard this news at the Sony HQ on New York’s Madison Avenue, before hearing all 15 tracks of the band’s earthshaking new Black Ice, recorded in Vancouver in just eight weeks with Brendan O’Brien. On it, Brian wails about skies on fire, blood in his eyes, storms raging, lightning flashes, hard rain and pretty women. Angus Young shreds throughout (we dig his slide work on “Decibel”), and the rhythm cats — Malcom Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd — are solid as a rock. The first single is “Rock ‘N Roll Train”; “She Likes Rock ‘N Roll” will be a stripper anthem; and “War Machine” (our favorite) will tear you to pieces.