AC/DC have confirmed that they are to embark on an 18-month world tour, starting in the US this October.

The tour, AC/DC’s first since 2000, was announced by Creative Artists manager Rob Light at a touring panel at this year’s IAMM conference in California.

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The band’s as-yet-untitled fifteenth studio album is due to for release around the same time as the world tour will kick off in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

The band’s album is the follow-up to 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip, and a single is expected to be aired on radio in August.

No further dates or venues have yet been revealed.

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Keep checking www.uncut.co.uk; we’ll post details of the AC/DC 2008/09 tour as soon as we know.