AC/DC album done in 10 days: Rudd

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd says the rock group's next album was recorded in just 10 days.

Rudd says the album is "stunning".

"It sounded so good. It is f***ing good mate. That's what I can tell you," he said.

AC/DC have surrounded the album in secrecy to the point where Rudd says he doesn't know any of the song titles.

"We don't get the words. We just play the rhythm," he said.

With founding member Malcolm Young out of the band due to illness, Rudd said Stevie Young, Malcolm's nephew, was the guitarist on the new album.

"I enjoyed playing with Stevie. I won't say it was easy, but I was very comfortable in that situation. I don't make hard work out of it. In 10 days it was done."

AC/DC have a reputation as being one of the hardest working bands in the business. In the early days in Australia AC/DC recorded all day and played all night.

Their first five albums were released in just two years.

"We are a hard-working band," Rudd says.

"There was eight years between the last two tours and rightly so. You need eight years off. We have always worked hard. It is a hard-working band.

"You know you are going to work f***ing hard or you are out. I love it. It is the best gig you could possibly have as a drummer."

While fans await the next AC/DC album, Rudd has released his first solo album Head Job.

The album was recorded over the past 20 years in New Zealand with Rudd's friends, NZ musos Allan Badger and Geoffrey Martin.