[Cover photo credit to Kim Vestbrandt]
Six years since their previous offering, Swedish Occult Rock band Year of the Goat are returnign with their fourth studio album, Trivia Goddess, arriving this Friday, September 12th, 2025, on Napalm Records.
Year of the Goat will be embarking on an album release tour starting this weekend in Sweden, and they have also revealed the title track “Trivia Goddess” alongside an official music video.
With this single, the band takes listeners into “the great noise”, when over the course of 8 years, 280 people were accused, convicted, and executed for the crime of witchcraft.
With “Trivia Goddess”, the band provides a look at this dark time, invoking Hekate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft, the mother of all witches, and the “Trivia Goddess” herself, thereby “paying homage to all those lost souls.”
On the new video clip the band comments:
Many have told us they wanted a bloody revenge in the end of The Power of Eve video, the girls who were about to be burnt for witchcraft should have had their revenge, they said. We‘re saving the blood for last, when running out of video budget you make a low budget horror film themed video that gives the term witch hunt a new meaning. They‘re coming for you! Run!!!
Inspired by the most harrowing moments in women‘s history, Trivia Goddess sees the Norrköping, Sweden-based Dark Rock collective take a deep dive into the stories of real women, “devalued as the lesser sex by churches and by men of a petty god, rising up against the real structures of evil in the world, in true Satanic fashion.”
The album was mixed by Tom Dalgety at Psalm Studios, Wiltshire, UK, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg / Magnus Lindberg Productions. Trivia Goddess was driven by the dark sounds of the 60s and 70s and that was brought into the Production on the album.
YEAR OF THE GOAT Live:
13.09.2025 – SWE Norrköping Arbis
18.09.2025 – SWE Stockholm Kollektivet Livet
19.09.2025 – SWE Gothenburg Monument 031
20.09.2025 – SWE Jönköping Klubb Dissonans
With The Night Eternal:
24.10.2025 – DE Aschaffenburg Colos Saal
25.10.2025 – DE Lichtenfels Paunchy Cats
26.10.2025 – DE Lindau Vaudeville
27.10.2025 – AT Wien Viper Room
28.10.2025 – AT Salzburg Rock House
29.10.2025 – DE Würzburg Posthalle
30.10.2025 – DE Uelsen Schulzentrum
31.10.2025 – DE Monheim am Rhein Sojus 7
01.11.2025 – DE Chemnitz AJZ
02.11.2025 – PL Krakow Hype Park
