AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been sentenced in New Zealand to eight months of home detention after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to threatening to kill a man, as well as to drug charges.

Rudd, 61, was sentenced Thursday in Tauranga District Court, according to the New Zealand Herald.

He’d been facing a maximum seven-year prison sentence for the threatening to kill charge.

Rudd pleaded guilty in April to threatening to kill, as well as to possession of marijuana and methamphetamine.

He was arrested in November of last year, and initially also was charged with being involved in a murder-for-hire plot, although that charge was quickly dropped.

Rudd’s fate with AC/DC remains unclear. Chris Slade, who previously was a member of the band from 1989 to 1994, is currently serving as drummer on AC/DC’s Rock or Bust tour.

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