AC/DC legends Angus Young (guitar) and Brian Johnson (vocals) spoke to Thesun.co.uk about a number of topics including the band's forthcoming album, Black Ice, due out October 20th.

Black Ice has all the trademark AC/DC sound. Songs about rock ’n’ roll, thunderous guitar riffs and screeching power vocals. “It had to be representative of how we are," says Angus. "We had other songs but they weren’t right. Every one of the 15 tracks on Black Ice, you will say, ‘That is AC/DC’.”

AC/DC’s previous two albums, 1995’s Ballbreaker and 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip, were not well received by some critics. But for Black Ice they teamed up with producer and fan Brendan O’Brien, who said “I’d missed AC/DC and wanted the same band back. I was impressed by him because he is a musician first and has great production skills. We told him to be brutal. Critics can shoot us full of arrows but I don’t worry about it. When we started we never had great reviews. I can show you some of them, they were never pretty. We were called colonial hicks, the Chunder From Down Under, and told we should be on the first boat home.”

Both Angus and Brian believe AC/DC’s success is down to making the music they’ve wanted to play and shunning the celebrity life.

Brian says: “There’s no celebrities in this band. One thing that AC/DC do disgustingly badly is celebrity. We don’t go to the Brit Awards or anything. The band is a very grounded band."

At the end of the month, AC/DC go back on the road, coming to the UK for the first time in seven years early next year. So how is Brian preparing for the gruelling schedule?

“I’m 61 so I’ve been working out and I’m getting the fitness guru for Formula 1 to come in and knock the stuffing out of us for a couple of weeks. I’m scared. He’s a toughie. But you know, I work out three days a week and I run six days a week to try to keep me fitness levels up. And those stages, they’re big buggers. They’re getting bigger but it’s spectacular, the stuff we’ve got. I think the production this time is the most expensive in the history of rock ’n’ roll. It’s fantastic."

Read the entire interview at this location.