Lost in the cadence of the 27-year-old, still potent rock and roll masterpiece “Back in Black,” one might wonder whether there is any musical entity that could ever top the thumping back beat and ear-drum shaking guitar riffs of the great AC/DC.

Perhaps a cadre of smokin’ hot rocker chicks belting those tunes out with enough energy to righteously recreate a stadium-sized show into a four-cornered club — so raucous that they have to bolt their amps to the stage lest they tip over in a room so rocking that it sways. Now that just might do the trick.

Enter: the Washington-born, all-female AC/DC tribute band — Hell’s Belles.

Since its inception, the group has been working it to the level of touring the country and even further into the world, playing to festivals, parties, clubs, dive bars and everything in between. Fresh of a “Rocky Mountain High” mini-tour of Colorado last month, the Belles are returning to the Northwest this month to liven up the dog days of summer.

They’ll be in Bremerton at 9 p.m. Aug. 5 at Winterland. A group out of Colorado — Thunderfist — will open. (See www.hellsbelles.info for the other two NW dates in August.)

“We love music, we love AC/DC,” said the dreadlocked school-girl guitarist Adrian “Angus” Conner in an e-mail interview — the only way she could be reached. “It’s an honor to play some of the best rock and roll songs ever written. We don’t (mess) around, we don’t take it for granted.”

As Conner channels Angus on stage she got a snarling stare so mean it can almost make the audience feel they’ve done something wrong by ogling her guitar licks. It’s true in every sense, these girls don’t mess around.

It’s evident in the fact that one of the group’s collectively favorite songs to play is “Riff-Raff.”

“Right out of the gate, it’s fast and it’s got a lot of (power) and I love the riffs — I just go nuts!” bassmistress Mandy “Cliff Williams” Reed said via phone from a Colorado recording studio. “It’s one of those songs that’s 110 percent all the time … I like those ones.”

A lot of what the Belles do is 110 percent, no holds barred, madness. Each member is a professional musician, most are heavy into other touring bands. Reed of Bremerton’s Neutralboy, Conner of Adrian and the Sickness out of Austin, Texas and drummer Melodie Zapata from Bremerton’s The Isms. Lead singer Jamie Nova is also rocking with a new female-centric metal band out of Seattle called Witchburn while she has also joined forces with Reed and Hell’s Belles former bassist in a new B-town project called the Moens.

Still the Belles get together to rock it two to three weekends a month.

“Wherever we’re playing we fly and meet up with each other … and that’s how it usually works,” Reed said. “It doesn’t make for any rehearsal time so we have to keep our chops up to the records at home.”

Reed said the group has learned each of the 25-30 songs in it’s repertoire purely by ear, devoid of song books, and in that regard, with a stereo, each member can practice up on their own.

Though AC/DC’s straight-ahead, fundamental rhythmic wailing may seem already embedded into any rocker who’s been influenced by them, the band that’s sold more than 150 million records with its blunt sound is anything but easy to recreate.

But the Belles will likely make it look that way Sunday at Winterland as they rock the staples — like “Highway to Hell,” “Thunderstruck,” and “TNT” — to the more obscure types — “Riff-Raff,” “Live Wire” and “The Jack” — to the straight up wicked — “Back in Black” and “Dirty Deeds” — just to name a few.

“It’s almost harder to play it straight forward and as solid as AC/DC does,” Reed said. “It’s made us all better musicians for it.”

When asked what role AC/DC played in her musical influence, Conner replied, “A hard, throbbing, constant beat.”

Enough said. You’ve got it.