It's been a bittersweet day for AC/DC fans.
The Aussie rockers have announced the name and release date of their new album but also the retirement of founding member Malcolm Young.
Young, 61, took a break from the band earlier this year due to ill health. On Thursday, it was confirmed that the guitarist would not be returning to the band he founded with his brother in 1973.
AC/DC said in a post on their official website that Young is too ill to return.
"Unfortunately, due to the nature of Malcolm's condition, he will not be returning to the band," the statement said.
No further details about Young's health battle were given.
Young will be replaced by his nephew Stevie Young, who plays on the new album, Rock or Bust.
Rock or Bust, to be released on December 2, is their first album in six years and the first ever without Malcolm Young.
AC/DC will undertake a world tour in 2015 in support of the new record.
Brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, who migrated to Australia from Scotland when they were kids, formed AC/DC in 1973.
For more than three decades the band has consistently performed at sold-out concerts across the globe.
One of the group's best-loved works is their successful and influential Back In Black album, which has sold in excess of 22 million copies in the US.
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