Alas, alas .......

...... This album is in my opinion not become as expected and predicted the big bang. Where is the incredible energy of this music, which once rolled us flat and we took her breath !!! As a die-hard AC / DC fan of the old guard (since 1980) I have just quite simply admit that the songs are not so playful and full of energy to come across as even in recent publications, but that's like everything in life just a matter of taste. Only "Rock'n'Roll Train", "Big Jack", "War Machine", "Rock'n'Roll Dream" and "Black Ice" can convince some extent. So brilliant catchy tunes such. B. "TNT", "Whole Lotta Rosie", "Sin City", "Highway To Hell", "Back in Black", "Thunderstruck", "Hard as a Rock" or "Stiff upper Lip "are nowhere. Most of the songs on the CD, mainly in the Middle, rippling mid-paced as to himself, and are simply a little boring ... the roughness and directness of earlier songs is gone, everything is much too polished, too little "dirty". Oh, what were those days when fresh thundered from the speakers "Back in Black". Every single song is a blast! Clearly, a second "Back in Black - Album" there will certainly never again and that also requires none, but a bit more ingenuity, a little more tempo changes and an associated boost energy here would have been urgently needed. Sorry guys, that was not quite the yellow of the egg. I think the great times in which they made good albums without filler, are over. Too bad, really great shame .... Live they are safe still unbeatable ..... and the 3 stars there for Brian, who actually sings at his best ...