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Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: STRAIGHT RAZOR Shares Dance Floor Friendly “Misery”

While he may be best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds, Omar Doom has committed most of his creative life to music. Doom’s latest musical project STRAIGHT RAZOR sees him crafting a blend of darkwave, techno and EBM anchored around menacing beats and hypnotic, clockwork melodies. 

After a string of standalone singles and remixes, Doom released his STRAIGHT RAZOR debut, 2021’s Vol. 1 EP. He followed up with 2022’s Vol. 2 EP. Last year, he launched his label DOOM VISION with STRAIGHT RAZOR — REMIXED EP, an effort that featured remixes by Gost, Corvad, Moris Blak, Nightcrawler, Destryur and ESA. Destryur released their latest album Dimensions through Doom’s new label. 

Doom’s highly-anticipated full-length debut, Casualty was released earlier this month. As Doom explains, creating the album has been a deeply personal journey, as the album’s material reflects and details his frequent battles with anxiety, an experience that can feel like the end of the world. “This album is my way of confronting those struggles and finding beauty in the chaos.”

Now, if you had been on this site earlier this week, you might recall that I wrote about album single “The Curse,” a brooding, club friendly banger that’s a slick mix of 80s New Wave and goth.

“Misery,” Casualty‘s latest single is a tense, dance floor friendly bop featuring glistening synths and tweeter and woofer rattling thump that reminds me a bit of ACTORS and the Artoffact Records lineup — but a bit more industrial and more goth. And its core, it evokes the creeping unease of a narrator, knowing that his anxiety will strike at the most inopportune time.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New Video: STRAIGHT RAZOR Shares Brooding “The Curse”

While he may be best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds, Omar Doom has committed most of his creative life to music. Doom’s latest musical project STRAIGHT RAZOR sees him crafting a blend of darkwave, techno and EBM anchored around menacing beats and hypnotic, clockwork melodies.

After a string of standalone singles and remixes, Doom released his STRAIGHT RAZOR debut, 2021’s Vol. 1 EP. He followed up with 2022’s Vol. 2 EP. Last year, he launched his label DOOM VISION with STRAIGHT RAZOR — REMIXED EP, an effort that featured remixes by Gost, Corvad, Moris Blak, Nightcrawler, Destryur and ESA. Destryur released their latest album Dimensions through Doom’s new label.

Doom’s highly-anticipated full-length debut, Casualty was released earlier this month. Album single “The Curse” is a brooding, club friendly banger that’s a slick mix of 80s New Wave and goth featuring menacing, tweeter and woofer rattling beats, glistening synth arpeggios paired with Doom’s plaintive delivery.

Directed by Joe Cardamone, the accompanying video for “The Curse” is shot in a gorgeous and cinematic black and white and captures the brooding nature of the song.