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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Australia’s very bad boys of heavy metal rock AC/DC returned to town Tuesday night before a sold-out audience of 8,500 people at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza and made it their business to rip the place apart.

Not literally, of course, but figuratively, musically if you will. Brothers Angus and Malcom Young didn’t fail to delight again as they unraveled their grandiose anthemic rock show.

AC/DC’s music flaunts heavy metal guitar riffs layered in crunchy power cords, thumping bass lines and sexual juvenility as their lyrical template. For the most part, their music objectifies women except those in attendance who did not seem to mind.

Joining the Young brothers on stage in AC/DC are vocalist Brian Johnson, drummer Philip Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams. The quintet’s primal 4/4 beat has seen the band through four different decades of success dating back to their auspicious debut with their late frontman Bon Scott.

The Hall of Fame rockers offered up a playlist touching on just about every part of their career. Resounding versions of “Back In Black,” “Highway to Hell,” “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” “Stiff Upper Lip” and “For Those About To Rock” are probably still rebounding around the Wachovia Thunder Dome.

AC/DC’s high-decibel wattage and fist-pumping anthems made this a perfect night for the band that was still in the process of punching its ticket to the Hall of Fame on their last trip through Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Four generous video screens surrounded a life-like locomotive emblazoned with the band’s name as a backdrop. Very appropriately, the group opened with “Rock & Roll Train” from their latest release, “Black Ice.”

Guitarist Angus Young perched on his left foot all night like a crane lifting and lowering his right leg in time stomping on the arena stage. On occasion, he would wander the spacious illuminated runway that jutted out into the audience slapping hands along the way and never missing a lick on his wireless Gibson guitar.

Angus still sports his trademark grade school uniform, red velvet shorts and all. During “The Jack,” Young does a fake striptease all the way down to his boxers which sport an AC/DC logo across the back as he shows off to a thunderous approval from the Wachovia Arena audience.

During most songs, vocalist Brian Johnson would squint his eyes and reach down in a Joe Cocker-like seizure flailing his arms as he pranced across the stage, seeming to search for every word deep in the arena flooring. He still hangs from the giant bell and sways back and forth as the opening notes to “Hells Bells” ring out.

On Sunday night, the band gave a dress rehearsal performance for 1,000 people at a “Secret Show” (mostly for radio contest winners) at the arena. Some reported that the Aussies gave a perfunctory performance lacking in any real impetus or purpose. That certainly wasn’t the case Tuesday night. It seems that when you add 7,500 more people and a tour opening-night press contingent, there’s a bit more motivation.

Double-stacked Marshall amplifiers, elaborate props, slick lighting scheme and an audience full of people wearing pulsating plastic devil horns … yeah, all of the elements were there for a night of classic arena rock. And there are few out there that do it better than AC/DC … very few.