Metal Monday: AC/DC’s Rock or Bust

This review of Rock or Bust originally appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Dec. 4, 2014.

AC/DC: Rock or Bust (Columbia/Sony)

Rock_or_Bust_AC_DCAC/DC may have a few problems (drummer Phil Rudd faces drug- and assault-related charges, and founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young has retired owing to dementia), but you’d never know it from Rock or Bust.

Metal Monday: AC/DC’s Who Made Who

Cover of "Who Made Who"

A compilation album may not often make it onto a “best of” list, but I’ll always be  biased when it comes to AC/DC’s Who Made Who. It was a Christmas present in 1986 and my gateway album into the world of heavy metal. Once I’d heard it, I never looked back.