Progoat. Interview with 6o66y

Interview by Chuck Manganiello

1 . Hails brother!!! Introduce yourself to the readers.

6o66y... I’m 6o66y from PROGOAT.

2. When did you get into black metal and what inspired you to start a band?

6o66y.... I've been into black/death metal for as long as I can remember… bands like VENOM, MERCYFUL FATE, CELTIC FROST/HELLHAMMER, SODOM, PROFANATICA, SARCOFAGO, BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, is probably my biggest influences with PROGOAT for sure. Plus, PROGOAT is just myself getting out all the demons bottled up inside, and set loose on those who actually believe in those sorta things...

3. Listening to your music you can definitely hear Beherit and old Celtic Frost. What other bands have influenced you?

6o66y... Ur absolutely correct about that my friend! I'm a slave to the riffing of early CELTIC FROST/HELLHAMMER, so you will probably hear that bigtime in my riffing style with PROGOAT, but the guitar solos are all myself paying homage to MERCYFUL FATE, not that I even come close to being as good as Mike Denner and Hank Sherman, it's an attempted dedication to early Black Metal from the 80's for sure... Trying to bring back that old school Evil metal sound from way back, ya know?!?

4. What is the driving force to your lyrics and vocals?

6o66y... To be a wrecking ball smashing down the lies of the Christian faith, and conjure something ugly in the minds of the listener, especially when the listener is Christian...

Satan is always a good way to start the lyric process I guess, that and absolute Desecration!! About half of the songs are ritual ceremony incantations, and passages spoken in Latin backwards, so the most dark and dreadful feeling comes over the people who are not familiar with this kind of music, will always remember the fear they felt when first listening to PROGOATs music…

5. What bands are your personal favorites and what is your opinion on the USBM scene today?

6o66y... MERCYFUL FATE’S “don’t break the oath” is the best record of all time, hands down, no one else comes close... but, like I said beforehand, CELTIC FROST/HELLHAMMER, SODOM, PROFANATICA, early MYSTIFIER, SARCOFAGO, BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, PROCLAMATION from Spain are absolutely fucking incredible, and I proudly own everything they’ve ever released on vinyl! What a fucking band they were huh?!? They have the perfect Black/Death metal sound in my opinion... But the good U.S black metal bands are few and far between in my opinion. PROFANATICA, CRURIFRAGIUM, WEREGOAT, BLACK WITCHERY, DEMONCY, BLACK FUNERAL, APOCRYPHAL REVELATION, RTNGJHVH, are all great bands from AMERICA!!

6. How did you go about or why did you pick the label that you are working with now to release your music?

6o66y... Well, I searched for labels at first and came upon BLASPHEMOUS CREATIONS OF HELL RECORDS, threw myself ordering a MORBOSIDAD shirt unknowingly from the labels webstore, I think... but Chuck, the head of the label, showed a great interest in my work with PROGOAT from the very start, and had remained so to this day! I know I can count on him to get things done for this project and that he would never release my shit alongside something fake as fuck, and mostly, he keeps his word, and takes great care of the demons under his infernal banner!!!

7. So far you have released “Satanico Sint Obscura Metallum” CD, “Antichristus Mortem Cultus” CD, “Desicration Ceremony” Demo and a new demo that just came out. Do you have any plans for future releases for the readers?

6o66y... Everything is coming along nicely with PROGOAT hear lately, but I’d rather not say too much about future endeavors with PROGOAT, because Satanism is about working and doing things in secrecy, it’s also what makes PROGOAT so much more authentic than the rest of the weak shit being put out lately... this music has been made in the chambers of Black Ceremony, and those involved are dead now... I’ll say no more...

8. How many members are in Progoat and do you have any plans on doing live shows? Are you in or have been in any other bands?

6o66y... PROGOAT is myself only... and no, I have no other bands I’m playing with at the time being...

9. How do you feel about the USBM scene and the black metal scene as a whole?

6o66y... I think 99%of it all is fake as fuck, and there are very few newer bands that are carrying the true spirit of this kinda music anymore, like the way the early bands did! so I keep my old school black/death metal records close.

10. I appreciate you taking the time to do this interview. Is there anything else you would like to say about Progoat to your fans or to the readers of Inside The Darkness?

If ur a fan of PROGOAT, don’t be a pussy, find you a Christian and kick they’re ass!!! That entire faith needs to be stamped out! So we can better evolve as a species!!! Ave Satanas...

I am proud to be working with you and releasing one of the most extremely raw primitive black metal bands in the scene today. For anyone who hasn’t heard of Progoat you need to check out their releases. Hails to you Warbrother!!!

Bio:

PROGOAT is dedicated to everything Satanic, old School Black, Death, Doom, Thrash, Speed, Heavy metal!! CELTIC FROST/HELLHAMMER BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND, PROCLAMATION to just name a few that have great influence on my work with PROGOAT... Much love for CHARLIE MANSON R.I.P “gone but never forgotten!!! His legacy lives threw all METAL,ROCK-N-ROLL”

HAIL SATAN, and look forward to the next PROGOAT release coming soon!! Its only getting better!!! Hails from Wilmore KY!! 6o66y

Contact: progoat6o66y@gmail.com