 Black Ice is AC / DC 's seventeenth studio album release in Australia and their fourteenth international release . The band took a break after finishing the Stiff Upper Lip World Tour in 2001 , and resumed performing in 2003 , with eight presentations that included AC / DC 's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they opened three concerts for The Rolling Stones ' Licks Tour . During those two years , guitarists Angus Young and Malcolm Young wrote music separately , then met in a London studio to work on new songs . 
