"With NORTHTALE, I wanted to start the band that I wasn't able to when I was 16 years-old."

 

So says Brazilian-American guitarist Bill Hudson, who has made a name for himself over the past 15 years working with artists including DORO, Jon Oliva's PAIN, U.D.O., CIRCLE II CIRCLE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA and David Vincent's I AM MORBID. In spite of these achievements, it was in 2017 that Hudson was finally able to realize his dream by launching his own band, NORTHTALE, and releasing the debut album „Welcome To Paradise“ two years later. All was not well in paradise, however, and the industry standard "creative differences" between Hudson and vocalist Christian Eriksson (ex-TWILIGHT FORCE) brought things to a grinding halt. Rather than give up Hudson chose to regroup and treat the NORTHTALE debut as a demo for greater things to come in the form of a new album, Eternal Flame.

 

Reflecting on how far he has come with NORTHTALE, from being a dream to its troubled beginnings, Hudson makes no secret of how pleased he is with the final result of Eternal Flame. "I absolutely love the album, and I've probably listened to it more times now that I've ever listened to the first NORTHTALE album. When ‚Welcome To Paradise‘ came out I was super excited about it, and back then I would have said it's a perfect album. Now I can barely stand to listen to it. ‚Eternal Flame‘ couldn't be better. It's perfect to my ears.... at least until we make the next album.