12 Hard Rock Bands Who Succeeded By Never Selling Out
2. AC/DC
The Young brothers seemed to have a certain vision in mind when they first started AC/DC. Influenced by the old time rock and roll of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, the band took those basic tunes that we all grow up learning and turned them up to 1000 in every possible way.
For a band that's been around for over 30 years, the band have always been great at delivering just the type of music that they love. Even when singer Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning, the band proved that they were just getting started on the million selling Back in Black. There never seems to be a wrong time to listen to AC/DC because what they've done is incapable of going out of style.
With just the right amount of vocal grit and guitar crunch, this band has made a sound that has come to embody everything great about rock and roll. In the words of the immortal Mick Jagger, it may be only rock and roll, but it's still damn good. Throughout the years of hair metal, grunge, glam, and industrial, AC/DC are more than satisfied just being themselves and cruising along with their bluesy rock thrashers. And don't even think for a second that the band will ever slip into ballad territory.