 Black Ice is an album by Australian hard rock band AC / DC . It was the band 's fourteenth internationally released studio album and the fifteenth in Australia . Released internationally on 17 October 2008 , it was produced by Brendan O 'Brien . It marked the band 's first original recordings since 2000 's Stiff Upper Lip , with the eight @-@ year gap being the longest between AC / DC 's successive studio albums . Black Ice has the longest running time of any AC / DC studio album . 
