Mark Crozer On The Wyatt Family Theme, Playing WrestleMania XXX And More

Mark Crozer, the man behind The Wyatt Family theme “Live In Fear,” recently did an interview with JourneyOfAFrontman.com where he discussed working with the WWE, performing live at WrestleMania XXX and much more.

Here are some of the highlights:

Alex Obert: Was your introduction to wrestling having your song as Bray Wyatt’s entrance theme or do you have a history watching it before that?

Mark Crozer: I used to watch the British version of the WWE, I don’t know what they called it back when I was a kid. It was on TV on Saturdays on World of Sport. My brother and I used to sit and watch that every Saturday. And then it got taken off the air around the early to mid 1980?s. I kind of just forgot about it until this song reintroduced me to that world.

Alex Obert: What’s the story behind Bray Wyatt using your music as his entrance theme?

Mark Crozer: Ages ago, between 1999 and 2000, I found out about this idea that you could, as an independent artist, get your music into TV shows. It was the organization called Taxi based in LA. I joined and it was completely new to me. You’re always looking for ways to get your music heard by different people. It’s very difficult to get record deals, so I gave this a shot. Then I guess around 2005-2007, this was just one of those songs that I wrote at that time. I put that and other songs into this one music library and I guess they had a deal with another library that was servicing the WWE. Bray Wyatt was searching for a song for his theme music and he came across my song. I think he spent six hours or so listening to songs, that’s what he told me. And when he heard mine, right away, he just thought it was gonna be good for his character. They tried it out and it worked. And that was that. So I didn’t actually hear about it right away until a couple of months later when a guy named Steve, whose a wrestling fan, tracked me down online to find out if it was my song. And that was actually when I found out about it.

Alex Obert: Who approached who for you to perform Bray Wyatt’s theme live at Wrestlemania XXX?

Mark Crozer: They asked me to do it. I’d really been following the whole Bray Wyatt development over the last couple years. I knew that there was a good chance that he was gonna do Wrestlemania this year. I’d heard that they’d had bands occasionally to perform. I e-mailed my guy at WWE around Christmas time saying, “I’d love to do it.” And then they got in touch with me a couple months later to ask me to play.

Alex Obert: Backstage at the event, was that the first time you met Bray Wyatt?

Mark Crozer: I’d met him a few weeks before because RAW was in Brooklyn a couple weeks before Wrestlemania, which is where I live, so I got to meet him then. There was a lot of mutual respect, we were both really happy to meet each other. We’d been in touch a little bit by e-mail before that. We’d tried to meet up previously, but it never worked out. It was great, we really just talked about music. He found out around that time that I was gonna be performing at Wrestlemania, so he was very nice to me.

Alex Obert: What are your thoughts on the intro to the song on TV?

Mark Crozer: I love it. I think it’s great. I really do. The whole thing in the dark and the lantern and his catchphrase, “We’re here.” I think it’s fantastic. I think it’s a really good example of how music and images work together to compliment each other. To me before, I thought it was a song that was quite good, but I didn’t really give it that much thought, to be honest. But coupled with his whole entrance and character, it really gives that song more depth. For him and his entrance, the music gives him his whole image. The two things work really well, in that respect.

You can check out the full interview by clicking here.

Editor’s Note

“Live In Fear” is easily the most captivating entrance theme in World Wrestling Entertainment today. Mark Crozer’s performance at WrestleMania XXX was something for the ages. I hope that wasn’t the last we’ll ever see of him and his band.