Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with AL.com, Carla Harvey opened up about her departure from Butcher Babies. According to her, she was “kind of squeezed out” of the band.

Harvey said the following:

“I couldn’t do a tour [in the fall of 2023] because I had a serious eye injury and they went and did a tour without me. Then it was, like, ‘Well, we’ll just do the band by ourselves.’ When you have put your heart and soul into something for so long and you do get kind of squeezed out of it, there’s a moment when you’re, like, ‘I can either lay down and not do anything else, or I’m not gonna let someone else tell me when I’m fucking done doing what I do.’”

She went on to say her husband Charlie Benante (Anthrax) inspired her to launch her new project The Violent Hour:

“He was, like, ‘No, get out of bed. Fuck that. We’re gonna write an album. Charlie’s excitement about it was really instrumental in my excitement. He would be playing guitar riffs in the morning with our morning coffee.”