Its various musical experiences go through important bands like AC / DC, Uriah Heep, Asia, The Firm, Gary Moore and many collaborations with the likes of Tom Jones, Paul Rodgers, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin-The Firm), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) e Rick Dufay (Aerosmith).
A fundamental characteristic is his way pyrotechnic drumming and percussion, instruments that often prefers Slade exasperate and enriching with additional accessories and items to make it even more powerful its performance.
In the second half of the nineties, after the experience of hard rock with the AC / DC, Chris Slade has participated for about five years from the engravings and tour the progressive rock band Asia as permanent member.

One of the most important experiences in the career of Chris Slade is certainly the one with the AC / DC, Australian hard rock band often at the center of world rock scene.
Slade become an official member of the group after a few months as a session-man in the 1989 (taking over from Simon Wright, which in turn he had replaced Phil Rudd in the eighties) and participated in the recording of the album The Razor's Edge (1990), dell’album Live (1991) recorded during the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donington and the single Big Gun (1993), made for the soundtrack of the movie Last Action Hero Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He participated in the great tour of The Razor's Edge in 1990-1991, hence its group recorded the album Live.
Leave the AC / DC early 1994 when Phil Rudd decided to come back in the band after more than a decade for the recording of the next album of the group, Ballbreaker (1995).

The day 07/02/2015 announces, through its Facebook page, return with AC / DC after 21 years because of problems with the law by Phil Rudd. The day 08/02/2015 he played with the band at the Grammy Awards. Slade will be the band's drummer during the Rock or Bust tour.