![]() ![]() Hudson: You said the album title correctly! You’ll find I do that a lot. What did you want to accomplish the time around as far as the songwriting, recording, and performances that maybe was a little different than previous records? Thrash metal is where I found the most enjoyment, and it had the greatest pull on me.ĭead Rhetoric: Detritus of the Final Age is the fourth Harlott album. I definitely enjoy what they are doing, but I can’t listen to 45 minutes of blast beats, it’s not something that sits with me. I would listen to thrash metal, death metal, black metal and grindcore, and I found the other styles too much for me. The good thing about that is if you start reasonably soft and get into heavier and heavier music, you find that sweet spot where you enjoy the brutality at maximum efficiency. ![]() It was an organic discovery for me and my brother – I wasn’t just handed a Mayhem record and here is what is music supposed to sound like, poser! (laughs). I spent my time discovering Megadeth, Slayer, and then Overkill, Testament, Exodus, and discover the European thrash scene with Destruction, Sodom, and Kreator. Once you discover Metallica you go through their back catalog, Load, to the black album, to And Justice, Master of Puppets and so forth. That was my first introduction to the heaviest thing I had ever heard, when Hetfield barks ‘give me fuel, give me fire’. And my older brother got given that as a birthday present. When I was seven years old, Metallica’s Reload came out. However, the introduction to heavy metal. There was a part of me that always wanted to do it, but I didn’t start playing guitar until my mid-teens. When I was about five or six years old, I was given one of those plastic toy guitars, and apparently I didn’t take the fucking thing off when I got it. ![]() We were always chucking a CD on for the road trips – living in Australia a lot of our holidays were ten hour drives away, so a collection of Meatloaf, Jethro Tull, Enya, or John Farnham albums made the rides go by. Growing up I was living around a musically challenged family – not expressing any levels of talent, there were no musicians in my family. ![]() Prepare to learn more about his musical development during childhood, his love of thrash, the vivid cover art, thoughts on the band from a live perspective – and a bit behind his science degree and career outlook.ĭead Rhetoric: Tell us about your earliest memories surrounding music growing up – and how you made the progression towards metal and eventually picking up an instrument to want to play in bands yourself?Īndrew Hudson: Alright, that’s a few questions to answer there, so I may need some rejogging at some point. Talking after ingesting his perfect dose of coffee, vocalist/guitarist Andrew Hudson willingly handles all these questions with depth, humor, and intelligence. Harlott firmly entrenchs themselves in the thrash genre – completing a trilogy of albums with a similar theme to arrive at their fourth record with Detritus of the Final Age fresh and ready to annihilate in a sonic manner through new behind the scenes people in different chairs. Those in the know are well aware of a strong Australian metal scene – and versatile too covering a multitude of styles. There’s more to the land down under than koala bears, kangaroos, and Men at Work. ![]()
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