A New Zealand judge has sentenced AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months of home detention after the musician pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a man who used to work for him, along with possession of methamphetamine and marijuana.

The 61-year-old drummer was sentenced in Tauranga District Court on New Zealand’s North Island on Thursday. He had faced up to seven years in prison on the threatening to kill charge.

Rudd pleaded guilty to the charges in April, acknowledging in a court summary of facts that he’d offered large amounts of cash, vehicles and a house to an associate after asking him to have the victim “taken out.” He also acknowledged that he’d directly said to the victim he was going to kill him.