Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report from Bruce Simon:
It's been more than six years since AC/DC put out an album, and there doesn't seem to be any rush to do a new one.
Fifa Riccobono, who's an executive at the band's Australian record company, said they haven't even gone into the studio yet to work on the new project, which was expected in the early part of this year.
She told the Sydney Morning Herald, "There's no scheduling. They're ready to go and ready to record, but there's no plan for it." Riccobono also said that AC/DC has started to work up some of the many songs that are on tap for the new album, but that no release date has been scheduled.
Their last album was Stiff Upper Lip, which was released in early 2000.
Just over a year ago, AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson told us that guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young were "ensconced" in a studio in the U.K., and that they were writing a lot of new material: "I think, and I might be speaking out of turn, but I think they're doing a double, with the amount of songs -- I've been over a couple of times with the boys and added ideas on 46 tunes we had, and they've been working since then!"
AC/DC will likely tour once the album is ready.
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