AC/DC returned to Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas to record their ninth album, the same studio where they had recorded "Back in Black" with Robert John "Mutt" Lange in 1980. Lange had produced AC/DC's three previous releases but this time the band chose to produce themselves. On the recorded commentary on the album for the "Live at Donington" DVD, the band members state that the album was an attempt to make the band raw again, and were happy with the result. In the book "AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll", AC/DC engineer Tony Platt recalls: