Episode 121 of Mars Attacks Podcast brings you another entry in the Classic Albums series, the episode focuses on AC/DC’s Back In Black. You will hear comments regarding the album from the metal queen Doro Pesch, Anthrax’s Charlie Benante, Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth, Testament’s Gene Hoglan, The Rods Carl Canedy, Jason McMaster of Dangerous Toys, Racer X’s Jeff Martin, former Hades singer Alan Tecchio, and a whole slew of other musicians, journalist/historian Martin Popoff, and host of shows such as Aaron and Chris from The Decibel Geek Podcast, and Mitch Lafon from One On One with Mitch Lafon.

You will find the podcast at the bottom of this post. You will also find links to the album on Spotify, or you can purchase the album from here.

Remember that you can go here index page to find out further details on everyone involved in the column.

Here are the written comments that were submitted regarding Back In Black, they are posted in the order they were received:

Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal - To bounce back from the tremendous loss of Bon Scott, with such an incredible album... few bands are that great, AC/DC to this day still is.

Greg Prato - Although AC/DC's Bon Scott era will always be my fav, 'Back in Black' remains one of rock's all-time classics and is completely timeless. As the years have gone on, I've also realized what an accomplishment it was - here was a band that lost a key member/friend, and they came back with one of rock's all-time best-selling albums. Amazing.

Dave Starr - One of the best albums ever, definitely the biggest comeback IMO. I don't think anyone saw this one coming after the death of Bonn Scott. AC/DC started a whole new career for themselves with this one.

Peter Ellis - This album has more classic songs in it than other bands have in their entire careers!! Brian Johnson proved to be the best replacement singer in the history of rock and that says a lot about the man and his work ethic... Amazing album, that should be the number one pick of albums when you are about to throw a party!

Jon Leon - This is the greatest example of catchy songs and crossover appeal in metal history. When I was in in school...you could go to any party, the jocks, rappers, rednecks...it did not matter. This album could be put on and it was accepted. I know of no other album in metal history that has this much crossover appeal. It is dumbed down just enough, raw and dirty enough, poppy enough and has some of the best guitar tones ever laid to tape. It’s catchy and fun. It just works. Mutt Lange and AC/DC had a special chemistry and this was the best example of their work. A classic among classics. Top Ten of all time in metal history.