Angus Young, the AC/DC guitarist who still dresses in the round cap and short pants of an Australian schoolboy (despite turning 70 in March), once gave an amazing response to a frequent criticism about his band: People say AC/DC, founded in Sydney in 1973, have been making the same album, and writing the same song, over and over, for the past 52 years. Since 1975, they’ve made 17 studio albums and every single one, to the nonmetal head, casual listener and plenty of fans, sounds just like every other one.

So sometime in the ’80s, when they still had only a dozen records, Young told a reporter he was “sick to death” of critics who say they have made 11 albums “that sound exactly the same — in fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”

That’s the healthiest thing a metal band

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