Mem — vocalist and founding force behind German thrash metal legends Exumer — pulls into the Krazy Train and Jasmin St. Claire gets the full story behind one of the most ferocious thrash albums of 2025. Death Mask Messiah, dropping August 28th on Metal Blade Records, is Exumer's most aggressive record in decades — and it was born out of a renewed obsession with the Waco siege, David Koresh, media manipulation, and the cult of the modern messiah figure. Mem breaks down the album concept, the Silent Hill-influenced pyramid-head imagery in the video, references to Leviticus that hit harder than most metal bands would dare, and the singles "Allocated Savagery" and "Death Mask Messiah" that set the tone for exactly what kind of record this is. He gets into Exumer's relationship with Metal Blade Records dating back to 2012, why the seven-year gap since Hostile Defiance wasn't laziness but a pandemic, a lineup overhaul, and a writing process that refused to be rushed — and how two younger members on bass and drums injected a speed and aggression into this record that the band hasn't had since the 1985 originals.

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Jasmin St. Claire sits down with Chris from Mother of Graves to discuss the haunting sound behind their latest doom metal record. The Krazy Train podcast is known for exploring the heavy music scene, and this episode is no different. Chris breaks down the songwriting process that defines their atmospheric style, explaining how the band balances melody with the crushing weight of their signature sound. If you are a fan of extreme music, this conversation offers a unique look at the creative vision driving one of the most compelling acts in the modern scene. We talk about the influences that shape their trajectory and what it takes to build a career in the metal podcast landscape today. 🎙️🤘🚂 Subscribe to the channel for weekly artist breakdowns and join the conversation in the comments below.

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Shayan — Iranian-born, UK-based extreme metal force behind Trivax — pulls into the Krazy Train and this conversation goes places most podcasts would never have the guts to go. Jasmin St. Claire sits down with a man who discovered Metallica through illegal satellite television in a country where playing heavy metal could get you arrested, packed up a B.C. Rich guitar, left Iran, and built one of the most culturally loaded extreme metal projects in the underground today. Trivax isn't just a band — it's a manifesto. Old-school extreme metal fused with Middle Eastern musical elements, lyrics rooted in Iranian heritage, Zoroastrian philosophy, and a direct, unapologetic assault on the Iranian theocracy. Songs like "Operation Ramadan" dig into the horror of the Iran-Iraq War. The album The Great Satan says exactly what it means. And their fourth record — recorded for Osmose Productions — is already on the way. Shayan's Promethean message of personal agency and accountability hits differently when the man delivering it lived the consequences of what happens when a society strips both from its people.

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Former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion Simon Gotch — one half of the beloved Vaudevillains alongside Aiden English — pulls into the Krazy Train

Former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion Simon Gotch — one half of the beloved Vaudevillains alongside Aiden English — pulls into the Krazy Train and Jasmin St. Claire gets the story that never made it to SmackDown. Gotch takes it all the way back to Heatwave 2000, the moment that lit the fire, and walks through his early training days, his indie grind under multiple coaches, and how a kid who grew up watching wrestling in the XPW ECW parking lot scene eventually signed a WWE developmental contract and became one of NXT's most uniquely styled tag team acts. He breaks down the TKO corporate takeover of WWE, why he'd never step into Power Slap, and the honest truth about how many times the financial grind of the indie circuit made him seriously consider walking away from the business altogether.

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Krazy Train Podcast: Hamish (Godthrymm) on Projections, Doom Metal Roots & the Song “Jewels” Hamish — doom metal veteran of My Dying Bride and Solstice, now fronting Godthrymm — pulls into the Krazy Train and Jasmin St. Claire gets the full story behind one of the most respected names quietly building momentum in doom metal right now. Hamish breaks down where the name Godthrymm comes from, what "divine might" actually means, and why almost nobody pronounces it correctly on the first try. He previews the band's new album Projections, releasing May 29th on Profound Lore Records — the third and final chapter of a thematic trilogy that started with Reflections looking at the past and Distortions exploring contrast, with Projections turning the lens forward into the future through wide-ranging emotional and musical influences.

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NWA Wrestling's Pretty Boy Smooth pulls into the Krazy Train and Jasmin St. Claire wastes absolutely no time getting to what makes this man tick — because the Urban Playboy persona is sharp, the in-ring work is undeniable, and the story behind how a kid from Hempstead, New York went from college basketball at Hofstra to Mercyhurst to sitting ringside at a local indie show and deciding he wanted to be a wrestler instead of a referee is exactly the kind of origin story this podcast was built for. Smooth breaks down his training under multiple coaches including EC3 — who brought him directly into the NWA — the locker room culture that makes the NWA different, the move to Comet TV and what that platform means for the promotion's reach, and how a nickname he carried in real life became the Urban Playboy character that's turning heads on national television.

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Thomas Eriksen — the man behind Norway's Mork, one of black metal's most authentic and relentlessly evolving solo projects — pulls into the Krazy Train

Eriksen breaks down "Ødelagt" — Norwegian for "broken" — a track inspired by brutalist architecture, vast emptiness, and a life built on a false facade, and previews Monolitt, Mork's eighth studio album dropping June 19th on Peaceville Records — a signing that came with the backing of Darkthrone members and the kind of underground credibility that can't be bought. He walks through Mork's evolution across eight albums, the origin of the name and logo, and what it actually looks like to build a black metal career from Norway to the stages of Psycho Las Vegas, California Death Fest, and Baltimore — funded in part by Norwegian government artist grants that most American musicians don't even know exist.

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Armored Saint guitarist Jeff Duncan pulls into the Krazy Train and Jasmin St. Claire is ready — because when one of heavy metal's most enduring bands drops a ninth studio album, you don't phone in the conversation. Emotion Factory Reset is out and Duncan breaks it all down — the writing process, the concept behind the new videos "Close To The Bone" and "Hit A Moonshot" including the real-life fighters who inspired it, and what it means for a band that has been together this long to still be making music that hits this hard. He gets into Armored Saint's legendary relationship with Metal Blade Records and founder Brian Slagel, why a brotherhood built in the early 80s Los Angeles metal scene is still standing when almost everything else from that era has fallen apart, and what playing the Rainbow Bar & Grill's 54th anniversary show felt like for a man who grew up on Black Sabbath, Kiss, Van Halen, and Judas Priest.

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