As much as I would love to be able to write lyrics I have tried and learnt that my strength lies with playing the guitar, and singing background vocals at best! Come to think of it I've always wanted to be a drummer as well.
Without question Thomas is our main lyricist. Who is the lyrics-writer for YOTG? Do you write them collectively? Is there a main-theme behind your lyrics? Is any of it connected to historical Swedish heritage? Previous bands are, to name a few, Wolverine, Bokor, Tor-Peders Kapell, House of Aquarius. Some of us are still playing in bands like the aforementioned Griftegård, Misericordia (Fredrik and Don Palmroos), and Tobias Resch and Poppe are also playing in different bands when given time and opportunity but our main focus lies with YotG. Thomas is the main writer for both music and lyrics, and once he presents more or less complete songs we start rehearsing them all adding our own flavours to the mix, sort of like filtering through the rest of us. We have had a few different guitar players and bass players passing thru before settling down on our current lineup that has been stable for about a year now and we are a tight crew. From the beginning we had Fredrik Hellerström on drums so you could say that the three of us are the forming members. Without ever having one rehearsal we basically got started on writing new songs and Year Of The Goat was formed. At the time he was still playing in a band called Bokor and they were looking to replace their guitarist and I volunteered for the job. Him and I first met through our other band Griftegård and once we got to know each other we realized we had the same passion for old, and sometimes obscure, rock music. Thomas Sabbathi, our vocalist/guitarist, had had the idea of forming an occult inspired ’60s/’70s band since around 2006.
How did Year Of The Goat get started? Were you in other bands before?
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